”MADE IN CHINA” Ping.
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Posted on 12/07/2007 7:26:05 PM PST by JACKRUSSELL
One of China's best-known food companies has halted exports of all tinned food, after toxic chemicals were found in canned meat products.
Food safety officials in Hong Kong have discovered a banned antibiotic, nitrofurans, in tins of Maling brand pork luncheon meat and pork ribs. It is the latest scare over the safety of Chinese exports.
This year there have been massive recalls of toys, tyres and food products from the American market.
The government in Beijing has come under increasing pressure to regulate the safety of Chinese-made products, following international concern.
This year the American toy giant Mattel withdrew millions of Chinese-made toys due to fears over lead paint and other hazards, although the company later admitted many recalls were due to its own faulty designs.
Another popular toy was taken off the shelf after it was found to be coated with the date rape drug GHB. There have also been withdrawals of contaminated pet food which killed animals across North America.
The Chinese authorities have announced a series of measures aimed at tightening up product safety. They want to introduce a product recall system similar to those in Europe or the United States.
They want to protect the reputation not just of famous Chinese brands, but of the "Made in China" label generally.
But analysts say it is going to take concerted effort to prevent unscrupulous businessmen cutting corners, in China's prevailing get-rich-quick culture.
They better not be messing with our Spam!
Yum yum. </sarcasm>
I thought this was a typical Chinese business plan and not a headline. :-P
Mess with our spam? They’ve been messing with just about everything else, by now!
For some reason, they keep on cutting corners, thinking that their customers will not find out. They seem to get it wrong time and time again. First it’s the prescription drugs, then it’s the toys, now it’s the food, and speaking of tin cans, heaven forbid that their cars ever hit our roads!
I guess they feel that the west will accept anything as long as a profit is in the offing, and they would be right … as long as death and sickness could or would go unnoticed.
>>But analysts say it is going to take concerted effort to prevent unscrupulous businessmen cutting corners, in China’s prevailing get-rich-quick culture.<<
Meanwhile our get-rich-quick culture does it by making home loans to unqualified people and then having the president make the taxpayers foot the bill.
A huge but not impossible task. Many are too young to remember when "Made in Japan" was the mark of poor quality, in the 50's and early 60's. But within 2 or 3 decades it became a marque of excellence. Who will play Deming for China?
Mattel can't find any responsible stay-at-home moms to evaluate their designs. They'd probably work relatively cheap, too.
If I can think of that, why can't they?
I never buy any food product from china and I read all the can’s and other containers.
eww! who would eat anything like that in the first place? This means war however- Send them a boatload of Hormels canned spork spam, or what ever that is.
Apparently China is not going to overtly declare war on us, just accidentally kill us with toxic products.
It doesn't have to say it's made in China even though it was processed in China. Canned goods, boxed goods, even cereals that say "product of usa", "distributed by x company usa" could contain all sorts of stuff made in or processed in China. You just don't know, and they don't have to tell you.
To be safe, buy as much fresh food as possible. 90% of our food supply is now processed in China. Scary huh?
Some Chinese gadgets fall apart easily, but nobody accuse Chinese of jeopardizing our health because of it, even though gadgets falling apart at the wrong time could cause some injuries.
You cannot sweep all of these things as mere quality control issue, especially when you are talking about export products.
Want to make it really scary? Here we go. Some products are manufactured in so-called state-managed re-education facilities (= labour camps) in North Korea, badged as “Made-in-China”, and end up in your local shopping centre.
Sleep well. I know I won’t.
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