Chinese Chocolate: May Contain Live Worms
The Japanese media is spending a great deal of its effort covering the Asashoryu sumo scandal, but they have found time to report on the latest Chinese product scare:
Details on the same story shown in the above video in English, from the India Times:
On Wednesday (August 29).. worms and moths crawled out of a box of chocolates imitating a popular international brand, and even a few larvae. But by the time this was noticed, a few chocolate balls had been consumed. The chocolates were picked up by a Korean consumer on his trip to China. But local manufactoring experts say it looks as though the contamination happened during the manufactoring process.
“It seems to be seriously contaminated during the manufacturing process since the larvae of Plodia Interpun were found,” says Professor Ahn Young-chul at Eulji University.
A worm crawls out of holes in chocolate made in South KoreaReports suggest that worms were found in some chocolates made in Korea as well. But the news about the ‘China Chocolates’ adds to the already-damaged “Made in China” brand.
Not long after this story broke, China announced that it had discovered some microscopic worms in wooden packaging from the United States. I haven’t heard any reports about that on Japanese TV yet, and I doubt it will get the kind of coverage that shocking images of plainly visible worms crawling out of food products generate.
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Ugh. I can’t wait to hear how the next CCP official will poo poo the reports and concerns about Chinese products as mere rhetoric designed to sabotage the great people’s economic development. Sick.
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Are you KIDDING? The last Food Safety chief got EXECUTED.
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I didn’t say anything to Joyfull, but I found a dead one in my serving of 枝豆 a few days ago.
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It’s so funny that China always finds something in an American product the day after something is found in a Chinese product.
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Are all these food scares a precursor to some full scale Chinese invasion army, or does it just show China’s poor quality control?
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Heh, good question.
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China needs to straighten up it’s act. I’ve seen how badly they have raped their environment, polluted their skies and used their people.
Chinese are kind and good people, but the power that controls them (whatever it is) seems to be scrupleless.
Basically, it’s not new news, it’s just people are starting to look closely at imported goods after initial scares.
I would say, expect more and more.
By the way, that ‘cardboard meat report’ that was deemed as fault, who said it was false? The reporter, but think about the options that lesser men have faced against Chinese Government.
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As nasty as this story is, people finding bugs in their food is pretty common.
Over here in the States I once bought a box full of chocolate maggot cakes, (aka Hostess Ding-dongs). Over a year ago I bought a box of Ding-dongs, went home and ate one. I then put the entire box back into my cupboard. A few weeks later I grabbed one (each are chocolate covered mini-cakes, wrapped only in aluminum foil), bit into it, chewed (and swallowed), and put the cake down. I then noticed that something was crawling OUT of the cake … it was a heavy feeling of dread. Several MAGGOTS were crawling out the part I just bit into. I vomited out all the contents of my stomach and checked the other cakes. Maggots everywhere.
Had I known better I would have sued Hostess.
Yet I’ve also heard of the same thing happening to people who inadvertently end up buying expired and old baked goods. Finding bugs is so common that there is a government regulation stipulating that there should be no more than a certain number of bug parts per whatever unit of cereal. Supposedly, every year the average cereal consumer will have consumed over 20 bugs or something.
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” As nasty as this story is, people finding bugs in their food is pretty common. ”
I think most people agree with it. But people seldom find bugs alive in the food while eating it. It’s so disgusting.
I eat lots of imported Chinese peanuts. Your story made me realize we should avoid eating expired foods.
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If you are in China and found fruit or vegetable with worm in it, don’t throw it out. Most likely it one of the really rare product that didn’t use chemicals.
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I am from Hong Kong, and we know that made in China stuff was bad before the international hysteria.
Most people try not to get made in China products but Hong Kong is technically part of China now, it is hard to avoid.
The Chinese counterfeit any thing. Sure the toys has lead paint, but the counterfeit food is deadlier. Rotten meat get spray with some sort of chemical to make it look fresh. They also do that for vegetable and food. There were even report on some one making meat products out of card boards.
Some drinks are not very safe, one brand used to be made in Hong Kong, I loved it, but after they moved the factory to China, the quality went way down. It burn my throat as I drink it.
Hong Kong used to be great, then more and more product are becoming made in China, quality went down. Living there isn’t as great as is used to, because you have to worry about almost every thing you buy. The Chinese tourist are not very good either. They steal, scam, and con. The goods ones are ruled, uncivilized, violent, and they litter the beautiful street and different places of Hong Kong.
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Your comment reminds me of the news about Peking Olympic. Foreigners worry about lots of problems to be fixed in Peking, such as air pollution, traffic jams, dirty surroundings, water contamination, food poisoning and bad manners of Chinese. The olympic will be coming up within 11 months. Oh my goodness.
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China really has to clean up its act, ASAP!!
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