Almost half of Chinese food-processing plants fail to meet internationally acceptable standards, new figures suggest.

AsiaInspection’s vice president Mathieu Labasse said the extremely fragmented nature of China’s food chain — the country has 500,000 food production and processing companies, 70% of which have fewer than 10 employees — made it very difficult for authorities to control and foreign buyers to understand.

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