CHINA holds up foreign-linked exporters as role models for food safety - (International Herald Tribune)
September 30, 2007 – 6:33 pmQINGDAO, China — Wearing overalls and rubber boots, employees at Fusheng Food Co. stand in a narrow room as air jets in the walls, according to this story, blow away any dust on them. They wade through ankle-deep disinfectant and don caps, gloves and surgical masks.
Only then can they enter the chilly, white-tiled room where they pack Alaska salmon for American dinner tables and Russian cod for McDonald’s fish sandwiches in Japan. The Japanese-owned company says the fish already has been tested for more than 100 banned chemicals.
Zhong Yuhua, the general manager, was quoted as telling reporters who were invited on a government-organized tour of three food exporters in Shandong province, southeast of Beijing that, “I am very confident in saying our food is excellent and the safest in the world.”
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