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China to U.S.: Be gentle about the melamine mess

By Tom Johnston on 5/17/2007 for Meatingplace.com

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Fearing backlash from Washington after two Chinese companies intentionally contaminated U.S. pet food ingredients with melamine, China's quality inspection watchdog is pleading for mercy, according to the International Herald Tribune.

Beijing noted that it recently shuttered the two companies and detained several of their officials for unleashing one of the largest pet food recalls in U.S. history, and tainting livestock feed across the country. (See For the birds: Contaminated feed now found on chicken farms in Indiana on Meatingplace.com, May 1, 2007.)

"We hope the American side will accurately and objectively deal with problems among individual companies and not take stringent measures against other Chinese companies producing the same type of products," China;s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection & Quarantine indicated, adding that it hoped the case wouldn't prompt major trade problems.
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