Posted on 05/29/2007 6:31:32 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
A senior official involved in the safety of food for import and export yesterday appealed to the European Commission (EC) to consider reopening its markets to Chinese cooked chicken after a ban of nearly five years.
Li Yuanping, director-general of the bureau of imports and exports food safety under the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), said: "No exporters of cooked chicken that are registered with the quarantine department have had any cases of bird flu, and they have been keeping good records.
"Cooked chicken products from China are first-class," Li said.
Speaking at a press conference in Beijing last Tuesday, Robert Madelin, the EC's director-general for health and consumer protection, said: "The commission will meet with member states at the beginning of June to begin a process to open up trade, and the final decision is likely to be made in the autumn.
"In the case of chicken, we are satisfied with the animal-health procedures taken in provinces that are interested in exporting to the EU, especially Shandong, the major province for poultry meat exports."
Li said China had made considerable efforts to enhance safety procedures for exported food products over the past several years.
All major companies exporting frozen prepared food have established their own raw material production bases, where vegetables and poultry raising follows internationally recognized standards with rigorous breeding and quality records.
In addition, the AQSIQ has introduced 10 self-discipline regulations for export companies, covering such things as supervision rules for raw products, processing factories and enterprise credit construction.
Li was talking yesterday during an annual review of food and agricultural product exports to Japan, the largest market for farm produce.
Last May, Japan introduced its "Positive List System for Agricultural Chemical Residues", known to be the strictest system in the world and containing 53,862 residue limitation items.
However, thanks to the introduction of a range of control measures, China saw the value of its exports of food and agricultural products for the period between last June and this March grow to $6.8 billion, up 3.3 percent year on year, Li said.
Li Yongqiang, an information officer with the Shandong Longda Foodstuff Group Co Ltd, said the company had enjoyed export growth in both value and volume terms. During the first four months of this year, the value of its exports to Japan has risen to $65 million.
“that are registered with the quarantine department...”
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the GOTCHA phrase...
As long as Yi Luanping says so, well, I guess it’s OK.
If slow poisoning is good enough for them it’s good enough for anyone else.
Let this be a lesson to suppliers everywhere.Once you violate the customer’s trust,good luck getting them back to buy anything from you.
Melamine and anti-freeze prevent bird flu?
do I need a sarc tag?
ANY processed chicken I will firmly suspect, I will go as far as even asking KFC if its US chicken. We have a flourishing chicken industry in the US, why on earth do we have to depend on foregn fowl?
I have already made the law in my household that nothing edible comes from China, I’ll buy a shirt but no vitamins or food products will ever be bought by us, there really is no way they can prove it meets any health standards to me even if its US inspected.
“Cooked chicken products from China are first-class,” Li said.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
First class, my a$$.
Thanks for the ping.
Hahahah!
I was once served a chicken dish at a very exclusive restaurant in Shanghai. It lay in a puddle of blood. I ate the rice and the vegies, but not the chicken. I might have offended our host, but he he was gracious (and wanted our business) so he didn’t say anything nor did he act offended. I want my poultry and pork well done.
After all the reports, I may rethink the rice and vegies.
Or, does that only apply to the likes of KFC & Micky-Dee's?
If we ever go to China, we'll leave the clothes at home, and pack the suitcases with MRE's and a water purification kit.
My husband and our son travel about six times a year to China. They pack jerky, granola bars, etc. with them. In the major cities, there are many American franchise restaurants. KFC, McDonalds, Tony Roma’s and others. But, when they leave the cities and head out into the “hinterlands”, there are no choices other than the local Chinese establishments. They believe they have unknowingly eaten dog meat. Often, there is no other option when one is hungry.
When they return home, all they want is good old South Dakota prime beef..........rare.
we grow our own.
down China.
LOL ...this is so sad the laugh helped
The problem is our watchful congress passed a law eliminating the labeling of the place of origin for food or vitamins .
That lens cleaner was made in China, have you heard that on the news?
Ignorance may be bliss, but I do not know how we will know we are blissful in our graves
China is pushing the US to accept live and uncooked chicken from them.
If the lobbyists are good and have deep pockets I expect that will be on the menu of most of America before we know it!
Our elected officials don’t care if their mother is a victim as long as the money is good.
Unfortunately, this is not possible. I wrote Kellogg's asking them how they could be absolutely sure the ingredients in their food that were imported from China were safe. Kellogg's replied that they recently made their suppliers send in ANOTHER certified letter certifying the safety of their ingredients.
That sure made me feel better.
I only sent the letter because I SUSPECTED they might be buying some of their wheat gluten from China and as a consumer and shareholder I was concerned (think lawsuits: tobacco, breast implants, asbestos). Their response indicated to me that their manufacturers are buying a whole lot more than gluten from China.
Before the response to my letter I always thought of Kellogg's a a (large) company growing then picking the corn, then crushing it, then making it into cereal, boxing it up and shipping it to stores. I now realize they are just like the dog food companies: they send in a recipe to a manufacturer and the manufacturer gets bids on the ingredients and we can only hope that the suppliers of the ingredients aren't cutting corners and if they are cutting corners we can only hope the manufacturer is actually testing the ingredients they are receiving.
Frankly, it doesn't look good from the consumer's viewpoint.
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