Flashermac Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 Beijing (dpa) - Nearly half of Chinese food plants failed to meet legal standards in 2014 due to problems including incorrect labelling, falsified expiry dates, and poor food hygiene, a news report said Thursday. The main causes of failure in lab tests of food products from Chinese plants included the presence of substances such as pesticides, antibiotics, heavy metals, bacteria and viruses, the South China Morning Post quoted Hong Kong-based firm Asia Inspection as saying. Major reasons for inspection failures included the deliberate mislabelling of product ingredients and the falsifying of ingredients’ expiry dates, the newspaper reported. Of the 7,000 Chinese food plants audited, 48.1 per cent failed inspections from Asia Inspection, a group hired by suppliers’ customers to assess factory conditions. "China is struggling with low consumer confidence in food safety as the country was hit with multiple scandals," the company said Wednesday in its quarterly report. Food safety and food quality problems have become a major issue in China after dozens of scandals were reported by state media over the last decade. Chinese police on Monday said they had arrested "more than 110" people in 11 provinces on suspicion of selling pork from diseased pigs. Chinese police last year arrested five employees of a company found to have used out-of-date meat in supplies to fast-food chains including McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut. Inspectors seized 1,270 tonnes of raw meat and meat products from the Shanghai Husi Food Company. Zhang Hui, the company’s quality manager, confessed that Shanghai Husi had used old meat in its products for many years, state media reported. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Report-Nearly-half-of-Chinese-food-plants-fail-ins-30251949.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 No surprise there. The Japanese are extremely cautious of any products coming from China. In fact, the Chinese are paying 10 X's the price of apples that are grown in Japan because the Chinese know that the Japanese will meet and exceed legal requirements! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StoneSoup Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 Welcome to China, where we set very low standards, and we then consistently fail to meet even those standards. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 The Chinese give "Buyer Beware" a new meaning! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted January 16, 2015 Report Share Posted January 16, 2015 What about the meats? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitagawn Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 :drool:UGH Disgusting...We are what we eat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YimSiam Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 I find it amazing - shocking, really - that there is even a possibility that more 50% of Chinese plants actually meet requirements... Requirements must be low indeed... YimSiam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffalo_bill Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Why should a basically unscrupulous population stop at selling poisoned food , is there anything worse than selling potentially lethal milk powder ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plainsdrifter Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Over the past 30 years China is the only country where I consistently get sick in from food consumed there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted January 18, 2015 Report Share Posted January 18, 2015 With 1+ billion people in China, no worries to kill off a few million! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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