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Posted on 02/24/2008 12:48:51 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China finds pesticide in 'nikuman' exports
BEIJING (Kyodo) China said Friday it has found small traces of pesticide in two batches of "nikuman" meat buns bound for Japan.
The poisonous chemical found in the food is the same kind discovered in the Chinese-made frozen "gyoza" meat dumplings that poisoned 10 people in Japan late last year and early this year.
But a statement from China's quarantine and safety watchdog said the traces of the chemical, methamidophos, found in the buns was small and that the pesticide probably got into the products through ingredients such as vegetables.
Japanese police believe the meat dumplings involved in the previous food poisonings were contaminated deliberately, probably in China.
The Chinese safety watchdog said one of the firms involved in the latest case involving the meat buns is Renmu Food Co. of eastern Shandong Province. The firm is Japanese-funded.
Authorities in Osaka and Hiroshima announced earlier this week they had found small traces of the pesticide in meat buns made at the Chinese factory, although it appears nobody fell ill after eating the products.
Kagawa Prefecture also said Monday it had detected traces of the organophosphate pesticide dichlorvos in frozen mackerel processed in and imported from China.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry told quarantine offices in Japan to instruct importers of meat buns and frozen mackerel to conduct voluntary inspections when they import the products.
The Japanese authorities say the meat buns were made by the factory in Shandong on Aug. 2, 2006, and imported and sold by Osaka-based Nicky Foods Co. The pesticide was not detected in products from stock bearing different use-by dates.
The Chinese government has banned the use of methamidophos, but it is still used by Chinese farmers. In Japan, it is rarely found.
Authorities in Japan and China are still trying to find out how the Chinese-made meat dumplings at the center of the food poisoning scare were contaminated.
Beijing said Thursday that Japanese police reports that the pesticide that caused the outbreak in Japan was probably added deliberately in China were "unscientific" and "irresponsible."
Chinese officials have refused to speculate on how the dumplings were contaminated, saying conclusions can only be drawn after China and Japan have completed their investigations.
Ping!
Good gracious almighty. I regularly buy several products that are made in China, but I keep hearing all this crap. And it may not be crap. I don’t know what to do. Perhaps I should just grow a vegetable garden. But that doesn’t solve the problem of meat. I’m not a vegetarian.
They sure do keep having an awful lot of the same “mistakes”.
‘it may not be crap’ Your correct. The feces comes from Mexico. China on the otherhand only has heavy metals and chemicals.
Ping.
Don’t be so juvenile.
Buy ONLY locally produced meat.
I do, and I live on a small Pacific Island. NO meat I buy is grown over 1000 miles away.
Memo to all Olympic Teams: Bring your own food for the Olympics.
Anyone who looks will find small traces of pesticide in anything and everything made, born, hatched, or grown in China.
I hear the Japanese are anal about the cleanliness of their food. It beats me why they’d even consider buying something from China.
Well, duh! How else are they going to kill the maggots?
Small traces?
The whole country is polluted from the ground up, everything they eat, drink, breathe, and dig in. I doubt they’d be small traces.
And if I was still living in Japan, I would probably be eating them.
Kinryu SA on the Nagasaki Expressway near Saga had the best nikumanju. We always stopped there passing through. I’ll be trying them again in June when we go back to visit my wife’s father. Can’t wait.
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