Re: Although Dongwon F&B has a kimchi plant in China, all the exports go to Japan. Doosan sells kimchi to China, but since all of it is made locally in China, its products are not the "Korean-made food imports" as claimed by China. Re: Most of the kimchi products imported from China are made by Korean kimchi makers, who moved their facilities to China to reduce the production cost and are selling their products back to Korea.
- From: goodgutgut@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 3 Nov 2005 07:29:22 -0800
Is kimchi really such an important industry in China that the
expertly-worded accusations below even make sense?
'Kimchi wars' salvo fired at Korean exports
JoongAng Daily Korea | Brian Lee, Yum Tae-jung
KOREA
Raising the stakes in a spicy food fight, Chinese quarantine
authorities said late Monday that they had banned the import of 10 food
products from Korea, the majority of them kimchi.
The Chinese agency said the products were found to contain parasite
larvae, either by coincidence or design one of the same complaints
raised in Korea recently against imported Chinese kimchi.
On its Web site, the General Administration of Quality Supervision,
Inspection and Quarantine posted the names of seven kimchi products,
two hot pepper paste brands and one packaged combination of spices used
to make bulgogi, a marinated beef dish. The Web site said that the
Chinese government has recalled the products and ordered them
destroyed.
Yesterday, the news was carried by most Chinese broadcast media, which
urged that consumers be cautious about these imported products.
The Korea Food and Drug Administration said it was puzzled; the kimchi
products cited by China have not been exported there, it contended,
adding that it could not see how parasites could have gotten into the
pepper paste and spices because of their manufacturing processes.
The Agriculture Ministry concurred, saying that it knew of only one
four-ton shipment of Korean kimchi to China since July, and the
exporter's name was not included in the Chinese recall list.
Representatives of the companies whose names were cited said they had
no idea why they were being targeted because they did not export to
China. An official at Doosan, for example, said that it produces all
its kimchi for the Chinese market in Beijing. Dongwon said it does make
kimchi in China, but only for export to Japan. CJ, another company
cited by the Chinese agency, said it produces only for the Korean
market and exports nothing.
And Lee Jeong-sung, a manager at Daesang, said hot pepper sauce and
spices for bulgogi are made using heat that would kill any larvae
instantly.
Seoul has asked for more information about the shipments, officials
here said, and is considering whether to conduct more tests on products
from the cited companies. An official at the food and drug
administration said it was conceivable that a trader had exported the
Korean products to China.
There was no consensus here on what signals, if any, China was trying
to send. After the furor rose here about heavy metals and then
parasites in imported Chinese kimchi, officials in Beijing had
complained that Korea had set no clear standards for safe kimchi.
Some, like Park No-hyun, a law professor at Korea University, said that
China's membership in the World Trade Organization would require it to
follow international rules in handling the matter.
And a Korean diplomat in Beijing said that if China wanted to
retaliate, it would have selected products with a higher trade value.
"This is just a warning right now," he said.
But that warning, if such it is, could cause other problems for Korean
kimchi makers, who exported more than $100 million worth of kimchi to
Japan last year.
A Doosan representative complained, "The government needs to resolve
this issue as quickly as possible so that faith in domestic kimchi
products is maintained. We are worried that Japanese buyers will
mistrust our products."
After reports of high lead content in Chinese kimchi began to circulate
here and Seoul announced the discovery of parasite larvae as well on
Oct. 21, Beijing asked for proof of the safety of Korean personal
deodorants exported there.
by Brian Lee, Yum Tae-jung <africanu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200511/01/200511012244029879900090409041.html
© 2005 JoongAng Daily
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- Although Dongwon F&B has a kimchi plant in China, all the exports go to Japan. Doosan sells kimchi to China, but since all of it is made locally in China, its products are not the "Korean-made food imports" as claimed by China. Re: Most of the kimchi products imported from China are made by Korean kimchi makers, who moved their facilities to China to reduce the production cost and are selling their products back to Korea.
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- Re: Although Dongwon F&B has a kimchi plant in China, all the exports go to Japan. Doosan sells kimchi to China, but since all of it is made locally in China, its products are not the "Korean-made food imports" as claimed by China. Re: Most of the kimchi products imported from China are made by Korean kimchi makers, who moved their facilities to China to reduce the production cost and are selling their products back to Korea.
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