Re: Made in China

the function of newsgroup is to tell netters the truth.
this communists' dog is full of communism-concept, suppressing media/news.


yellowearth wrote:

On Jun 29, 6:28 am, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 28, 5:44 am, "JohnK" <D...@xxxxxxx> wrote:






News like this makes you wonder if China hasn't already started plans to
take over the entire world. Without having to resort to War.

June 28, 2007
China insists its exports are safe
By Audra Ang, Associated Press Writer

BEIJING --China insisted Thursday that its exports are safe, issuing a
rare direct commentary as international fears over Chinese products
spread.

Wang Xinpei, a spokesman for the Commerce Ministry, said China "has
paid great attention" to the issue, especially food products because
it concerns people's health.

"It can be said that the quality of China's exports all are
guaranteed," Wang told reporters at a regularly scheduled briefing.

China's guarantees don't worth the papers it's written on. But don't
worry, the Chinese will kill themselves off before the rest of us.
Food contaminations, fake food and additives have been well known in
China long before it got to the U.S.






The statement was among Beijing's most public assertions of the safety
of its exports since they came under scrutiny earlier this year with
the deaths of dog and cats in North America blamed on Chinese wheat
gluten tainted with the chemical melamine.

Since then, U.S. authorities have turned away or recalled toxic fish,
juice containing unsafe color additives and popular toy trains
decorated with lead paint.

Chinese-made toothpaste also has been banned by numerous countries in
North and South America and Asia for containing diethylene glycol, or
DEG, a chemical often found in antifreeze. It is also a low-cost --
and sometimes deadly -- substitute for glycerin, a sweetener in many
drugs.

The New York Times reported Thursday that tainted Chinese toothpaste
had been more widely distributed in the United States than had been
previously reported. It said about 900,000 tubes have turned up in
places including correctional facilities and some hospitals, not just
at discount stores.

Earlier this month, a spokesman for North Carolina's Department of
Correction said Pacific brand toothpaste was distributed to prisoners
who could not afford to buy a name brand at prison stores. The tubes
were taken away after trace amounts of DEG was found in them.

Officials in Georgia and North Carolina told the Times there had been
no illnesses reported, and that the toothpaste in question was being
replaced with brands not manufactured in China.

On Wednesday, three Japanese importers recalled millions of Chinese-
made travel toothpaste sets, many sold to inns and hotels, after they
were found to contain as much as 6.2 percent of diethylene glycol.

Wang, the Commerce Ministry spokesman, said Chinese experts have
already "explained the situation."

He gave no details, although the country's quality watchdog has in
past cited tests from 2000 that it said showed toothpaste containing
less than 15.6 percent diethylene glycol was harmless to humans.

Also Wednesday, Beijing police raided a village where live pigs were
force-fed wastewater to boost their weight before slaughter, state
media reported.

Plastic pipes had been forced down the pigs' throats and villagers had
pumped each 220-pound pig with 44 pounds of wastewater, the Beijing
Morning Post reported Thursday.

Paperwork showed the pigs were headed for one of Beijing's main
slaughterhouses and stamps on their ears indicated that they already
had been through quarantine and inspection, the paper said. Suspects
escaped during the raid and no arrests were made, it said.

The case underscored China's chaotic food safety situation, where
manufacturers and distributors often use unapproved additives, falsify
expiration dates or find other methods of cutting corners to eke out
small profits.

Officials have in recent weeks underscored the need to tighten up
inspections, punish violators and increase surveillance.

Wei Chuanzhong, deputy director of the General Administration of
Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said local governments
"should be fully aware of the importance and improve responsibility
for imported and exported food safety."

His remarks, made during an inspection tour of the port city of
Tianjin, were posted Thursday on the administration's Web site.

Earlier this week, inspectors announced they had closed 180 food
factories nationwide in the first half of this year and seized tons of
candy, pickles, crackers and seafood tainted with formaldehyde,
illegal dyes and industrial wax.

"These are not isolated cases," Han Yi, an official with Wei's quality
administration, was quoted as saying in Wednesday's state-run China
Daily newspaper.

Han's admission was significant because the agency has said in the
past that safety violations were the work of a few rogue operators --
a claim aimed at protecting China's billions of dollars of food
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The remarks of "chinese will kill themself off before killing us" is
crude. There are more than 1.3 billions people living in China. How
many chinese die just because eating those foods listed above? Please
do not generalize the problem. One who eat chinese foods is at own
choise. If you don't trust chinese food just simply do not buy them.
No need to link chinese foods to such remarks.


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