Posted on 07/14/2007 6:45:22 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
SHANGHAI, July 14 — China said late Friday that it was suspending imports of some chicken and pork produced in the United States after inspectors here found shipments that were contaminated with chemicals or bacteria.
The government said it would immediately block imports from some of the United States’s biggest meat producers, including Tyson Foods and Cargill, and also strengthen inspections of American meat to guard against health risks.
The decision appears to be a response to growing criticism in the United States of tainted Chinese goods entering the American market, including contaminated food and toothpaste......
......China has fought back, sometimes fiercely, saying that roughly 99 percent of its food exports to the United States are safe and meet quality standards.
Beijing officials have also suggested that the international news media and American regulators are exaggerating or misleading the public about the quality and safety of some Chinese imports.
“There is no such thing as zero risk in terms of food safety,” Li Yuanping, a government food regulator, said in a statement to the state-owned news media here. “It’s impossible for any country to make 100 percent of the food safe. The country should not be put on trial because of the problems of a particular company.”......
......The government says it is facing a daunting task in trying to improve standards and quality in this vast and overpopulated nation.
Now, Chinese regulators are taking aim at some of America’s biggest meat producers, saying that frozen chicken and pork from eight American companies were contaminated with bacteria or excess chemical residues, including antibiotics.......
......The Associated Press reported on Saturday that a Cargill spokesman denied the Chinese government’s claims about tainted meat, adding the company was now working to resolve the issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
*snrk*
I don’t think it is a mystery. North Korea exports Soylent Green!
Well, I don’t eat Tyson chicken either.
But if they want to stop importing our food .... go for it.
Same here unlsess it is local Oregon/Washington.
Arkansas chicken always looks a lil rough and worn. Real fatty.
Meanwhile China can bite me.
Trying to call the kettle black.
Almost all the imports from China are of questionable safety or very poor quality. We should ban all imports from China until they get their house in order.
Well they probably picked the worst two. LOL
They've decided to use the "SEE - EVERYBODY DOES IT!" defense.
They also have a really nice one-owner bridge they're putting on the market . . . .
I’m suggesting to my grocer that he save the space he is wasting on “organic” food and use it for a section that will truly offer the public improved food safety: Certified China Free.
So?
China executed a former director of its food and drug agency Tuesday for taking bribes to approve unsafe exports.
China is a bad joke.
NPR.org, July 10, 2007 · In recent months, the number of unsafe products imported to the United States from China — ranging from seafood and pet food to toys and toothpaste — has grown steadily.
Chinese-made products have accounted for more than 60 percent of recalls this year, said Scott Wolfson, spokesman for the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission. So far they have recalled 338 products overall this year, Wolfson said.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11656278
Good....More for us.
The Chinese probably taint it and send it back anyway.
How are the Chinese testing these products, with “fake” testing procedures?
F’ them.
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LOL on the Arkansas chicken!!!
There’s a huge Tyson processing plant 3 miles from my house.......in Virginia :)
All kidding aside, they really should be paying more attention to their food exports than our imports.
They rejected it because they don’t need it right now.
They have had an invasion of rats in some parts of China so the people will live on that.
LOL ! Nice ....
Trade war looming .... I love it ....
I’ll pay more for American made products .
Great work...
Ping list?
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