Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Incident of China-made dumpling

About half a year ago, several people in Japan suffered poisoning by eating China-made dumplings (chaoz) that contaminated with an organophosphate insecticide. With regard to this incident, there was a difference of opinion between the authorities of Japan and China. Both denied the possibility that the contamination had occurred in their country. Subsequently the investigation had stopped with little progress on clarifying the cause.
Recently, it was revealed that a poisoning incident by the same product had occurred in China. It is strong evidence that the insecticide was added to the dumplings in China but not in Japan.

By the way, I wonder why the recalled product was distributed in China market. Did the company resell the product ? It is also a mystery to me why the Chinese Government accepted the blame now. A secret agreement was made between the Governments of Japan and China ?

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