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Mike

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China destroys U.S. imports on safety grounds
Reuters, The Associated PressPublished: June 8, 2007

BEIJING: Raisins and health supplements imported from the United States failed to meet Chinese safety standards and have been returned or destroyed, the country's food safety agency said Friday.

The move comes as China itself faces international criticism, especially in the United States, over a series of scandals that have plagued Chinese food, drugs and other products from poisoned cough syrup to tainted toothpaste and pet food.

Inspectors in the ports of Ningbo and Shenzhen found bacteria and sulfur dioxide in products shipped by three American companies, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said.

"The products failed to meet the sanitary standards of China," the agency said in a brief notice posted on its Web site. No details were given on when or how the inspections were conducted.

The agency said it was asking "all local departments to increase quarantine examinations of foods imported from the United States."

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Telephones at the administration's office were not answered on Friday.

The companies were identified as K-Max Health Products, CMO Distribution Center of America, and Pervalu International Division.

The agency said K-Max and CMO exported health capsules, including honey and bacteria-fighting supplements. Pervalu exported raisins, it said.

The shipments from K-Max and Pervalu have been destroyed and CMO's capsules were returned, the notice said.

The notice did not say which contaminants were found in which products, although sulfur dioxide is sometimes used as a preservative in dried fruit. It said they were found in amounts that surpassed acceptable levels, but did not give any details.

Late last month, France's Groupe Danone said China rejected five containers of Evian water in February citing high bacteria levels.

The rejections came after concerns spiked over the safety of Chinese food exports. Deaths of cats and dogs in North America were blamed on tainted pet food ingredients from China.

In recent months, U.S. inspectors have banned or turned away a growing number of Chinese exports, including monkfish containing life-threatening levels of pufferfish toxins, drug-laced frozen eel and juice made with unsafe color additives.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also stopped all imports of Chinese toothpaste to test for a potentially deadly chemical reportedly found in tubes sold in Australia, the Dominican Republic and Panama.
 

Sandhusker

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Ten dollars to a donut says there was nothing wrong with those products. China doesn't play the trade game fair, never will. All these trade agreements, WTO, etc... won't be able do do a dang thing about it. Each time we have a legitimate problem, they'll match it with a "problem" from us. They'll bluster and threaten and the US corps like Walmart who make their living from China will have Washingtion cave in. Trade will trump safety, reason, common sense etc... Consumers are sold out again for corporate profits.
 

andybob

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Ensure that consumers are kept informed as to the safety and quality of imported foods, as apposed to locally produced and processed foods, and help them to make an informed choice. If the press is not doing enough in this regard, it is time to set up consumer information websites with the resposnsibility to keep updated information on both positive and negative trends in the food industry, if we as producers are doing our job properly, this can only be of benefit to local producers and products.
 

PORKER

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SCORINGAG.COM ,this is being used by Farmers markets to have the proof that a product is locally produced by the seller. Go to the web site www.traceback.com
 
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