China finds tainted Japanese soy sauce and coffee

Food inspectors in Northern China claim to have examined food imported from Japan and found dangerous levels of arsenic and copper:

The Guangdong Inspections and Quarantine Bureau said on its Web site Tuesday that its inspectors in the city of Tianjin discovered that Japanese soy sauce contained arsenic levels five times higher than permitted.

The product safety agency also said that imported Japanese coffee had twice the allowable level of copper.

Accordng to Nikkan Sports, the soy sauce was made by Morita and the coffee was made by Unimat Life.

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8 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - November 6, 2008 at 7:19 am

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canadaguy

Let’s see if the Commies ever publish the complete findings availible to the public.

This is obviously an answer to the numerous poisonings happening back in China.

The Overthinker

Or perhaps the food was made with products imported from China in the first place….

taksan

exactly.

Mister M

Waite a minute so far as I know, Japan imports soy beans from China too.
I agree with overthinker.

tentaro

Chances are this is to deflect the bad publicity they been getting for their own problems over milk, paint w/lead…..etc etc. Sad they can’t just try to fix their own problems instead of slinging dirt and trying to soil another country’s reputation.
tzvete

The thief is crying out:”Stop the Thief!”
http://www.victorymanual.com Alex

The difference between Japanese and Chinese products? Cheap Chinese products are likely to have defects. Expensive Japanese products are likely to have defects.

When you buy dirt cheap products from China, you get dirt cheap products from China. When you buy dirt cheap products from Japan (and also possibly expensive ones), you get dirt cheap products from Japan. What do they expect?

Here’s something that not many foreigners acknowledge – The Chinese products that Chinese buy for themselves are high quality. The products that foreign countries buy from China are low quality. China only sells the cheap stuff because there’s a foreign demand for it.

yutopia7

Ok, there’s foreign demand for cheap products. Understood. This however doesn’t quite justify the lack of inspection in these products.

China finds tainted Japanese soy sauce and coffee

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