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EU Commissions Safety Gate 2024 - Brussels

European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and Rule of Law Michael McGrath is talking to media about the Commission's Safety Gate 2024 in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on April 16, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the European Commission has unveiled its annual report on Safety Gate, the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The report also outlines the follow-up actions taken by national authorities of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein to prevent harm to consumers and stop the sale of hazardous products. - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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EU Commissions Safety Gate 2024 - Brussels

European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and Rule of Law Michael McGrath is talking to media about the Commission's Safety Gate 2024 in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on April 16, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the European Commission has unveiled its annual report on Safety Gate, the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The report also outlines the follow-up actions taken by national authorities of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein to prevent harm to consumers and stop the sale of hazardous products. - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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EU Commissions Safety Gate 2024 - Brussels

European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and Rule of Law Michael McGrath is talking to media about the Commission's Safety Gate 2024 in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on April 16, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the European Commission has unveiled its annual report on Safety Gate, the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The report also outlines the follow-up actions taken by national authorities of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein to prevent harm to consumers and stop the sale of hazardous products. - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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EU Commissions Safety Gate 2024 - Brussels

European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and Rule of Law Michael McGrath is talking to media about the Commission's Safety Gate 2024 in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on April 16, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the European Commission has unveiled its annual report on Safety Gate, the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The report also outlines the follow-up actions taken by national authorities of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein to prevent harm to consumers and stop the sale of hazardous products. - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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EU Commissions Safety Gate 2024 - Brussels

European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and Rule of Law Michael McGrath is talking to media about the Commission's Safety Gate 2024 in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on April 16, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the European Commission has unveiled its annual report on Safety Gate, the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The report also outlines the follow-up actions taken by national authorities of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein to prevent harm to consumers and stop the sale of hazardous products. - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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EU Commissions Safety Gate 2024 - Brussels

European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and Rule of Law Michael McGrath is talking to media about the Commission's Safety Gate 2024 in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on April 16, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the European Commission has unveiled its annual report on Safety Gate, the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The report also outlines the follow-up actions taken by national authorities of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein to prevent harm to consumers and stop the sale of hazardous products. - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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EU Commissions Safety Gate 2024 - Brussels

European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and Rule of Law Michael McGrath is talking to media about the Commission's Safety Gate 2024 in the Berlaymont, the EU Commission headquarter on April 16, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Today, the European Commission has unveiled its annual report on Safety Gate, the European Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products. The report also outlines the follow-up actions taken by national authorities of the EU Member States, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein to prevent harm to consumers and stop the sale of hazardous products. - Photo by Monasse T/ANDBZ/ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-BEIJING-ZHANG GUOQING-EU-DIGITAL AREA-DIALOGUE (CN)

(230918) -- BEIJING, Sept. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova co-chair the second China-EU high-level dialogue in the digital area in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 18, 2023. The two sides had in-depth discussions on issues including development and policy in the digital area, artificial intelligence, standards of communications technology, cross-border data flows, and the safety of non-food products, with a series of results achieved in the process. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

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CHINA-BEIJING-HAN ZHENG-FOOD SAFETY-MEETING (CN)

(230119) -- BEIJING, Jan. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, also head of the food safety commission of the State Council, presides over a meeting of the commission in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 18, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)

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Japan eyes relaxing controls on beef imports

TOKYO, Japan - A meeting of the Food Safety Commission of Japan's expert panel is held in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2012. Japan intends to relax controls, probably early in 2013, after the expert panel reached an agreement in principle to raise the age limit of cattle to 30 months from the present 20 months for the easing plan, government sources said.

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Cabinet ministers Ichikawa, Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue. They were at a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against them to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Consumer minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Kenji Yamaoka heads to a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against Yamaoka, who also serves as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, and against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day.

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Censure motions against 2 Cabinet members

TOKYO, Japan - Upper house Diet affairs chiefs Masashi Waki (R) of the Liberal Democratic Party and Yuichiro Uozumi (C) of the New Komeito party, submit censure motions against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, to Masafumi Hashimoto, secretary general of the upper house, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2011.

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Panel recommends end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Food Safety Commission are insession in Tokyo on Dec. 8. The panel recommended an end to the two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef, paving the way for the government to decide on a conditional resumption of beef imports.

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Panel recommends end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Food Safety Commission Chairman Masaaki Terada speaks with reporters after his panel recommended an end to the two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef on Dec. 8.

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Panel recommends end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, head of an expert panel of the government's Food Safety Commission speaks with reporters after the commission recommended an end to the two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef on Dec. 8.

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Panel OKs draft report recommending end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, head of a specialists panel of the government's Food Safety Commission, speaks at a press conference on Oct. 31 after his panel adopted a draft report recommending an end to Japan's two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports. Beef and beef offal from U.S. and Canadian cattle aged up to 20 months are at ''very low'' risk if materials that could transmit mad cow disease are properly removed, the draft report said.

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Panel meets on lifting beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa (L), head of the Food Safety Commission's specialists panel, speaks at the opening of the panel's session, called on Oct. 31 to discuss whether to recommend an end to Japan's two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports.

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Panel meets on lifting beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - The Food Safety Commission's specialists panel is in session in Tokyo on Oct. 31 to discuss whether to recommend an end to Japan's two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports.

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Japan poised to ease beef import ban, backed by panel report

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's independent Food Safety Commission's prion research group discusses in Tokyo on Oct. 24 whether Japan may ease its two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports. The panel later released a draft report saying the risk of mad cow disease being found in North American beef is ''extremely low'' if import terms are met properly.

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Food Safety Commission OKs easing of all-cow testing for BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's independent Food Safety Commission is in session in Tokyo on May 6 on the issue of the country's import ban on American beef. The panel approved an easing of the blanket testing of all cows for mad cow disease, paving the way for lifting the ban imposed after the December 2003 discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease.

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Panel to agree in March to exclude young cows from mad cow tests

TOKYO, Japan - The Prion Research Committee of the Food Safety Commission, a government panel in charge of mad cow disease, is in session in Tokyo on March 11. Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, chairman of the committee, indicated after the session that his panel may reach a conclusion later in the mmonth that young cows aged up to 20 months can be excluded from tests for mad cow disease, clearing one of hurdles to lift a 15-month-old ban on U.S. beef imports to Japan.

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Murai in charge of food safety commission

TOKYO, Japan - Jin Murai, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, takes charge of a proposed food safety commission to be launched next April.

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CHINA-BEIJING-HAN ZHENG-FOOD SAFETY-MEETING (CN)

(220217) -- BEIJING, Feb. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and head of the food safety commission of the State Council, speaks while presiding over a meeting of the commission in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 17, 2022. (Xinhua/Yan Yan)

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Panel to agree in March to exclude young cows from mad cow tests

TOKYO, Japan - The Prion Research Committee of the Food Safety Commission, a government panel in charge of mad cow disease, is in session in Tokyo on March 11. Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, chairman of the committee, indicated after the session that his panel may reach a conclusion later in the mmonth that young cows aged up to 20 months can be excluded from tests for mad cow disease, clearing one of hurdles to lift a 15-month-old ban on U.S. beef imports to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Food Safety Commission OKs easing of all-cow testing for BSE

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's independent Food Safety Commission is in session in Tokyo on May 6 on the issue of the country's import ban on American beef. The panel approved an easing of the blanket testing of all cows for mad cow disease, paving the way for lifting the ban imposed after the December 2003 discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease. (Kyodo)

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Panel OKs draft report recommending end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, head of a specialists panel of the government's Food Safety Commission, speaks at a press conference on Oct. 31 after his panel adopted a draft report recommending an end to Japan's two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef imports. Beef and beef offal from U.S. and Canadian cattle aged up to 20 months are at ''very low'' risk if materials that could transmit mad cow disease are properly removed, the draft report said. (Kyodo)

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Panel recommends end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Food Safety Commission Chairman Masaaki Terada speaks with reporters after his panel recommended an end to the two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef on Dec. 8. (Kyodo)

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Panel recommends end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, head of an expert panel of the government's Food Safety Commission speaks with reporters after the commission recommended an end to the two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef on Dec. 8. (Kyodo)

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Panel recommends end to beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Food Safety Commission are insession in Tokyo on Dec. 8. The panel recommended an end to the two-year-old ban on U.S. and Canadian beef, paving the way for the government to decide on a conditional resumption of beef imports. (Kyodo)

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Censure motions against 2 Cabinet members

TOKYO, Japan - Upper house Diet affairs chiefs Masashi Waki (R) of the Liberal Democratic Party and Yuichiro Uozumi (C) of the New Komeito party, submit censure motions against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, to Masafumi Hashimoto, secretary general of the upper house, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Cabinet ministers Ichikawa, Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa (L) and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue. They were at a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against them to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day. (Kyodo)

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Consumer minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Kenji Yamaoka heads to a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on the morning of Dec. 9, 2011. The main opposition Liberal Democratic Party and its ally the New Komeito party submitted censure motions against Yamaoka, who also serves as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, and against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa to the opposition-controlled upper house the same day. (Kyodo)

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Murai in charge of food safety commission

TOKYO, Japan - Jin Murai, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, takes charge of a proposed food safety commission to be launched next April.