CHINA defends standard of dumplings after JAPANESE fall ill - (Agence France Presse)
January 31, 2008 – 7:08 pmBeijing — China was cited as saying Thursday it had found no harmful pesticides during a pre-export inspection of frozen dumplings at the centre of a food scare that has left 10 Japanese people ill.
The story says that the incident has caused a national outcry in Japan, where the television networks are broadcasting horror stories from people who said they felt near death after eating the dumplings.
Japan’s cabinet held an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss a response to the food poisoning, as authorities began investigating more reported cases of people falling ill.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao was quoted as saying that before export, “the producers had tested the ginger and cabbage in the (pork) dumplings for insecticides and found the dumplings to be up to standard.”
Nevertheless, he said the Chinese companies that produced the dumplings in question had been ordered to halt production and recall all their products from […]
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