With a powerful downdraft, minute droplets are spread evenly on crop leaves, reducing chemical drift to safely minimize environmental contamination.

"The wider food and beverage industry will also have to make sure that they carry out a thorough inspection of the entire supply chain and production process to avoid any contamination risk.

Heavy metal contamination in soils and critical shortages of silicon are acute and widespread challenges for many countries in the world, including China.

The company's stock price has fallen by more than 9 percent since December last year as concerns about potential product liability from contamination of its baby powder stoked a sell-off.

While Feihe remains one of very few domestic dairy enterprises to have survived the melamine incident - no contamination was found in its products - the period proved devastating for it and other Chinese baby formula makers, as parents flocked to international brands.

The Singapore facility, as well as the one in Ireland, is designed to be able to run continuous bioprocessing, a next generation manufacturing technology in biomedicine that is more user-friendly, less prone to contamination, and more scalable.

It blamed the downturn on a NZ$405 million write-down in the value of its stake in Chinese baby food firm Beingmate and costs arising from a 2013 contamination scare.

Fonterra was ordered late last year to pay Danone NZ$183 million in damages over the 2013 incident, when fears of contamination in Fonterra-supplied ingredients forced the French company into global baby formula recalls.

French baby milk maker Lactalis Groupe's ongoing recall of thousands of products over fears of salmonella bacteria contamination in China is expected to hurt its brand reputation among Chinese consumers and have a negative impact on its market share in the country, according to industry experts.

French dairy giant Lactalis's baby formula contamination affects 37 batches of products sold on the China market, Beijing Evening News reported on Monday based on publicized information.

In early December, after the discovery of 20 salmonella infection cases in infants under six months, the health authorities in France announced a suspected salmonella bacteria contamination of Lactalis production and recalled 12 batches of its infant products.

Fearing that previous measures were not sufficient to manage the risk of contamination, the French Ministry for Economy and Finance published a broader list of 620 batches of Lactalis products to be recalled and banned from selling and export on Sunday.

Since the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, the GAC has consistently attached great importance to the issue of radioactive contamination in Japanese food imports after the accident, according to the statement.

The fact that cherries have since tested negative for coronavirus contamination has led more customers to purchase fruit at lower prices.

"We maintain strict control of product quality based on international standards, particularly when it comes to single crystal micro-defects, silicon wafer geometrical dimensions, and surface contamination," said Yan Zhirui, general manager of Shandong GRINM RS.

Zhu Keli, founding director of the China Institute of New Economy, said an increasing number of Chinese consumers are paying more attention to health and food safety, and they prefer domestic aquatic products in order to reduce the potential risks of radioactive contamination caused by Japan's discharge.

The Action Guide also suggests cities set up systems that can retrieve tourists' health information to avoid possible contamination.

As online healthcare effectively lowers the possibility of cross contamination in physical hospitals, the increase in the number of doctors registered in its internet hospitals in the past six months reached 52.8 percent of the total registered doctors in the past years.

Officials in China and Norway, one of the world's top farmed salmon exporters, later concluded that imported salmon wasn't the source of the contamination.

Medical bow caps are headwears for medical staff to prevent potential contamination through hair.

As the epidemic entered a high incidence period, most of the people are now staying at home as much as possible to avoid cross contamination.

Since the epidemic entered a high incidence period during the Lunar New Year, most of the people are now staying at home to avoid cross contamination.

On the contrary, in many cases agricultural and forestry waste, and livestock manure are not properly managed, causing serious environment problems in rural China, such as soil contamination and air pollution, according to Chen.

"Abnormal fluctuations in the financial market cannot be ignored," said the official, highlighting that financial markets are highly sensitive to external shocks and the cross-sector risk contamination should be prevented.