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China Warns USA!

Mike

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China warns U.S. against "smear attacks" on imports
Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:10PM EDT
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(Reuters) - China warned the United States on Thursday against "groundless smear attacks" against Chinese products and said it was working responsibly to address concerns over a spate of recent food safety scares.

"The Chinese Government has not turned a blind eye or tried to cover up. We have taken this matter very seriously, acted responsibly and immediately adopted forceful measures," said a statement by China's embassy in Washington.

"Blowing up, complicating or politicizing a problem are irresponsible actions and do not help in its solution," the Chinese mission said in a rare policy pronouncement.

"It is even more unacceptable for some to launch groundless smear attacks on China at the excuse of food and drug safety problems," it said.

Echoing the Beijing government's complaints about U.S. media reports, the embassy said food safety concerns were not unique to China, 99.2 percent of whose food exports to the United States in 2006 met quality standards.

Problematic U.S. imports from China -- including toxic ingredients mixed into pet food and recalls of toy trains and toothpaste -- were isolated cases and "hardly avoidable" amid huge and rapidly growing bilateral trade, the statement said.

"It is unfair and irresponsible for the U.S. media to single China out, play up China's food safety problems and mislead the U.S. consumer," it added.

Appealing for strengthened cooperation between Chinese and U.S. food inspection authorities, the statement urged Americans to "respect science and treat China's food and drug exports fairly."



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MoGal

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19650917/site/newsweek/

Maybe after reading that article, the USA should send back a warning also, we won't tolerate our people being poisoned.
 

MoGal

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I wonder why the news hasn't picked up on this fella's book and I certainly hope they don't import this soup............

Zhou began investigating China’s food supply after a dinner he shared with a friend in Guangdong, the carnivorously uninhibited southern province where it's said people will "eat anything with wings—except an airplane." The local Cantonese swear by their belief in the curative value of what they eat, right down to the individual body part. This restaurant's specialty: placenta soup, believed to be a boost for fertility, among other things. The placentas come from the aborted fetuses of migrant women workers who are unmarried or out of line with the government’s one-child policy. During dinner, Zhou peeked into the back kitchen and saw the cooks scooping out fetuses. He makes a karmic link between gastronomical excesses and the maladies that have afflicted Guangdong, breeding ground of diseases from avian flu to SARS: "Perhaps heaven was exacting his revenge on all those people who dared eat human dumplings."
 
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