Interactive Tool Identifies China as Top Food Safety Violator

China has topped the five worst food safety offenders in the world, a global monitoring tool identifies.

The rankings have been established through the electronic tracking of countries that issue the most food safety alerts and those that produce the greatest number of faulty or contaminated foods.

The rest of the top five are the US, Turkey, Iran and Spain.

The findings of the tool, designed by Kingston University researchers, are based on contamination levels collected between 2003 and 2008.

The interactive tool allows users to access global food safety information with a wide range of report patterns while graphs allow users to see food safety patterns and compare them to those of other countries.

The system generates comprehensive information to assess long-term patterns and trends that can help countries formulate a plan of action.