Official reports have confirmed that China has strengthened its drive for safer food with a new set of regulations which give utmost priority to proper monitoring of baby food, mainly after there was a re-emergence of tainted milk powder which was responsible for the death of as many as 6 infants in 2008.

The new rules put forward by the Government have singled out 5 main areas of priority, with special focus to be given to food items which are targeted at infants, pregnant women and the elderly, as well as all those who have been affected by previous safety scares.

The regulations of the Health Ministry have come after it was revealed that the milk powder contaminated with melamine, the industrial chemical, which was supposedly destroyed after the 2008 controversy, has managed to reappear in stores across China.

In 2008, as many as 6 babies had died because of the tainted milk powder, and 300,000 other had fallen ill.