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China Says Poisoning Was IsolatedBEIJING (Bloomberg News) — The Chinese government reported Thursday that the pesticide-laced dumplings that sickened at least 10 people in Japan might have been deliberately poisoned, but that its investigators found no evidence that the contamination had occurred in China. “We conclude that the dumpling poisoning incident in Japan is an individual contrived case instead of a food-safety case resulting from pesticide residues,” Wei Chuanzhong, vice minister of China’s food safety agency, said Thursday in Beijing. At least 10 people in Japan were sickened after eating frozen dumplings known as “gyoza” that had been made in China. Japan and China sent investigators to the factory of the Tianyang Food Company for clues on how the dumplings exported to Japan became tainted with pesticide. Both nations are seeking to avoid having the scandal harm diplomatic ties. Japan last year imported 6 trillion yen ($56 billion) of food, excluding livestock, from China. Police have found traces of the pesticide on six bags of the Chinese dumplings seized from a distributor. The police found a hole in one of the packages, according to a report from Kyodo News. The news agency also said that the Chinese government, in its report, did not offer any suggestions on how the dumplings came to be contaminated with a toxic organophosphate pesticide called methamidophos. Tianyang Food, located in Shijiazhuang city, southwest of Beijing, is a unit of government-owned the Hebei Food Import and Export Group. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationCA Inc. Posts Narrower Loss, but Expects ?Head Winds?...Vodafone to study £20bn bid for African operator MTN... Manitowoc set to buy Enodis for £948 million... Dealbook: Beat the Clock (and Get a Double Bonus)... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - China Says Poisoning Was Isolated |
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