Posted on 08/22/2007 10:10:38 AM PDT by quesney
China said Wednesday it had discovered many safety problems with soybeans imported from the United States, urging US authorities to deal with the problem.
"Inspection and quarantine units in various areas have discovered a large number of quality and safety problems with imports of US soybeans," the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said.
"We have reported this to the US side, demanding that it look into the causes and adopt effective measures to ensure that a situation like this does not repeat itself," it said on its website.
It detailed a series of safety problems, including the discovery of sorghum halepense and other exotic harmful weeds among the soybeans.
There was no mention in the statement of any plan to restrict or halt imports of US soybeans.
Recent global scares over the safety of China's exports -- ranging from toys to clothes to toothpaste -- have not made major headlines in the nation's state-run media.
However, frequent reports have emerged about safety problems in goods imported into China, especially from the United States.
On Monday, China said it had returned 272 heart pacemakers imported from the United States after they failed quality inspections.
The Xinhua news agency quoted the general administration as saying the pacemakers posed potential threats to patients' lives as they could cause misdiagnoses.
Indeed. Didn’t mean to honk out my creds for purposes other than emphasis of the veracity of my statement...
another pathetic attempt by the whining children of China to deflect richly deserved criticism of their dangerous, poisonous exports.
The Truth is they are unsafe, almost all soybeans are using AgroBacterium and Bt, these are GMO’s that generate their own pesticides and allow them to spray the fields with round-up. American crops are dangerous, AgroBacterium has been proven to make the plant - animal kingdom jump, it is being discovered in Morgellons patients ...
We need to really fix this problem. Stop shipping to China. Then they won’t have any complaints.
‘safety problems with imports of US soybeans’
I guess there could be safety issues if they ‘import’ them up the nose.
No big deal. Those farmers will be planting corn for sale to the ethanol plants next season, so soybean exports to China are sort of a moot point... I wonder where China’s going to get their Tofu...
Mark
LOL !
Oh no, not out “most favored nation” trading partner! (gag!)
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Well then too bad for you. (psst! next time before you appear on T.V. cut that big tumor off your face)
Yea, and your mother wears army boots!!! So there. Na na na na na.
That guitar player looks like a young Bob Dylan.
It's so nice of the Chinese to inform us of a potential problem with bad soy beans. This should prompt the FDA to issue a recall of all processed soy products, and products containing soy derivatives shipped from China. It may be contaminated.
“It detailed a series of safety problems, including the discovery of sorghum halepense and other exotic harmful weeds among the soybeans.”
How much you want to bet the deal was Chinese Importers would be responsible for the costs to clean up the beans to avoid the extra nickels of having them cleaned here?
“On Monday, China said it had returned 272 heart pacemakers imported from the United States after they failed quality inspections.”
Probably made in China, shipped to the U.S. for attaching the label, then shipped back to China.
I’m having a cynical moment.
That was Dylan in 1998. (Don’t know if 57 qualifies for “young”, but ask me again in 10 years and I’ll surely say yes.)
Or, it was one of the components of the pacemaker made in China to begin with that is faulty.
This seems like a move designed to rattle soy bean growers and get them to get law makers like Lindsey Graham to let China poison our pets and children and the rest of us.
Next China can return all those defective US patents they’ve, ahem, acquired.
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