CORRECTIONS

A May 10 story about China’s food safety policies contained a mistake. The Associated Press reported erroneously that the antibiotics ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin are banned in the United States. The antibiotics, members of the family of drugs known as fluoroquinolones, are not banned by the United States and often are used to treat human illness. But they have never been approved for use in aquaculture, and any amount detected in fish tissue deems the product adulterated, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some Southern U.S. states recently banned imports of catfish from China after tests detected ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin.

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