Posted on 07/20/2007 2:08:52 PM PDT by DancesWithCats
Embalming agent formaldehyde found in Chinese cookies in Philippines
BEIJING - China and the U.S. will meet at the end of July to discuss the safety of China's seafood exports, an official said Wednesday, while news reports said tires that were the subject of a huge U.S. recall were found to meet American safety standards.
Meanwhile, Philippine authorities said they were testing more Chinese products after ordering several candy and cookie brands withdrawn from store shelves because they tested positive for a harmful embalming chemical.
The five-day meeting between teams from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Chinese food safety officials was scheduled to begin July 31 in Beijing, said Li Yuanping, who is in charge of the safety of import and export products at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
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I don’t care what the chinese have to say. I’m not buying any food products they produce.
What's there to discuss beyond, "stop poisoning us"?
I really don’t care. I still won’t buy food that comes from China. I just purchased a tire for my flatbed trailer that I haul my tractor on. Most tires for trailers seem to come from China. The guy at the tire store said it’s getting harder and harder to get American made tires. I purchased a Goodyear tire even though it cost $20.00 more.
... right in the second part of the article I posted ... !! So it was smart of you to pay the extra twenty bucks!
At the lead-in we have this:
BEIJING - China and the U.S. will meet at the end of July to discuss the safety of China's seafood exports, an official said Wednesday, while news reports said tires that were the subject of a huge U.S. recall were found to meet American safety standards.
Then we find later in the article that it was China that has "found" the tires meet US standards:
... Hangzhou Zhongce has denied supplying faulty products.
"The tires mentioned in the report which FTS submitted ... meet or even exceed the U.S. quality safety standards," Hangzhou Zhongce said in a statement released Wednesday. "Zhongce is fully cooperating ... and expecting a proper and correct decision."
Then we have this little bit of fluff:
On Wednesday, the State Council, China's Cabinet, arranged a rare trip to a juice-processing plant and a quality control inspection center for domestic and foreign journalists _ a sign leaders are keen on promoting a good and open image.
Well, isn't that special!!
The AP really, really has their nose far up China's hindquarters.
Leftists of all ilks cover each other’s tracks.
Tires aside... I find it interesting that a quality control inspection at a “juice plant” would be such a privileged event.
I have no choice but to purchase a variety of trinkets and ill-fitting clothes manufactured in china, but I draw the line on anything that has to do with the safety and health of my family.
Another thought just hit me.
Isn’t it interesting that the chinese would arrange government-to-government talks about product quality? Clearly they lack a basic understanding of the free market. It matters little what quality assurances they provide to stave off punitive tariffs. The lack of consumer demand for their goods will settle the matter. Commies are unaccustomed to the idea of choice.
Nice bunch of folks those Chinese. Which by the way is one of the reasons I refuse to eat Korean food, don't like my food barking at me.
They are under the impression that they can put one over on the consumer as they do on a daily basis in China. With the number of independent labs in this country looking for a major kill, the consumer tends to be far better educated than in the rest of the world and their market can disapper with one bad news story.
One bad news story. Think of it. No more food exports to the US with just one bad story. That is scary, but US food processors have dealt with this issue for many, many years. Food in the US is tightly controlled, human hands rarely touch it. Food is tested constantly for contaminants, extremely sensitive sensors look for steel filings at the end of the processing and a whole host of measures are used to insure that food is healthy. They have little of that in China.
Most likely, you will seee American food consultants hired by Chinese firms to buck up their own testing and quality assurance programs, cause right now they don’t seem to have any. If they don’t, their market will disappear.
No more Chinese food for me.
I have heard gossip that Red China has lobbyists out in full force on this issue.
Are they bringing both Dogs and Ponys to this show?
China: Lift your bans on Chinese food imports.
US: No.
China: Lift your bans on Chinese food imports.
US: No.
China: Lift your bans on Chinese food imports.
US: No.
China: Lift your bans on Chinese food imports.
US: No.
China: Lift your bans on Chinese food imports.
US: No.
(repeat this 800 times).
These are “useful and constructive” conversations in the diplomatic parlance.
I don’t doubt this for a second; without a doubt the chinese government is going to be spreading some money around to try to contain this issue in our government and media.
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