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While others have been wondering what the Chinese FDA's been up to, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has been busy at work — conducting vigilant checks on food imported from overseas to ensure food quality for China's 1.3 billion people. They've just announced that soy sauce and wasabi imported from three Japanese producers have been found to be tainted with toluene and ethyl acetate. So, relax guys! China is not the only one with food safety problems. Developed nations such as Japan regularly poison their own people too.
China's quality authority springs to action; finds problems with Japanese food imports
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How convenient! So instead of quickly stepping up their inspections of domestic products, the Chinese government finds bad imported food products, so the Chinese people can once again breathe a sigh of relief that they are not the only country with food quality problems. Here we go with the same game again, promoting a contest to see which country has the worst quality issues, rather than actually trying to fix the regulatory framework to ensure that both domestic and imported goods won't poison you. The CCP has found a great formula, basically taking domestic problems, and finding someway to turn them into foreign problems, so they can conveniently get off the hook for their lack of supervision and cronyism with Sanlu and all these other domestic food companies.
Agree. The Chinese food authorities do this every time there is a food issue. Remember the Korean kimchee a year ago? If they were serious about calling the world's attention to foreign foods that are tainted, they wouldn't only do it when they are under fire.
unfortunately japan does poison their own people, not only by soy sauce and wasabi tainted with toluene and ethyl acetate, but also by instant noodles, sausages and pizzas, at least in last short week.
here is the recall know-how by japanese instant noodles maker Nissin Food that recalled insecticide tainted instant noodle.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieDZG6QjBLDfWSeLTjLsxGPHVmyAD9411EV80
and by another japan's second largest meat processor Itoham Foods that recalled of millions of sausages and pizzas.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20081025-2159-as-japan-sausagerecall.html
i only wish japanese ruling party would not be under fire for that like ccp, while all our expats would not gobble up everything cheap only because it was NOT made in china.
but why don't we have fun looking at this chinese master of so-called drunk qigong who gave the japanese a ko without even touching him.
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_cd00XNzYzMjMwOA==.html
Recalls happen everywhere. What doesn't happen everywhere are cross-country, cross-industry, food-safety crises.
This was also a favorite counterargument of my six-year-old son -- "Timmy did it too!" -- but thankfully as he matures he uses it less and less.
And of those recalled Japanese products, I wonder where they get some of the basic ingredients from? China has had ethylene glycol problems recently. Coincidence? And we know how reliable official Chinese reports are. So which country will be next on the hit list? South Korea or the US?
Very convenient.
And @eastman- That's not the problem. So what if Japan has food recalls? And before you say it, America has food recalls too. The problem is when the problem is hidden and people are paid off to avoid the problem being discovered. You see, Nissin didn't pay off people and search engines to hide their insecticide problem; they started a recall. When American produce was recalled, there wasn't a widespread effort to hide it; everyone was informed of the recall. By contrast, when the first melamine incident was reported, the government stonewalled until the internet pressure became too great. That's the problem.
I love it! Japan always bans american beef and other foods because of their so-called high standards and now China is giving them some heat. I know it's defensive and petty but I'm pulling up a lawn chair and enjoying these fireworks!
LOOK! Look over there!
See, there's bad foreign food we're protecting you from!
Nothing else to see, here...
China sucks sloppy dick.