Japan Supermarket Chain Pulls Tainted Beans from Shelves
Made-in-China food safety issues continue to plague the international market: first there were tainted dumplings, then tainted milk, and now tainted beans. One woman in Japan was hospitalized after eating beans produced by the Chinese company Yantai Beihai Foodstuff Company, imported by Nichirei Foods, and sold in Ito-Yokado supermarkets.
Tests showed one package of beans contained 34,000 times the permitted level of dichlorvos, a highly toxic insecticide, Japan’s Health Ministry said.
The Chinese government immediately launched an investigation and ran sample tests that found no traces of pesticide.
“The company and its production base in the northeastern Heilongjiang Province have never used such a kind of pesticide,” said Mu Mingde, Yantai Beihai Foodstuff general manager.
Currently, Tokyo police are investigating whether the frozen beans were deliberately contaminated after leaving the Yantai Beihai Foodstuff Company, as a pinprick was found in the package that made the woman ill.
With the discovery of the hole, Japanese investigators increasingly suspect that the package’s contamination was deliberate, rather than accidental during the production process.
The Chinese government has cleared Yantai Beihai of any wrongdoing.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
POSTED COMMENTS: 3 Responses
The tainted dumplings, tainted beans that only were discovered in the Japanese supermarket shows that the pesticides were deliberately added after the goods were shipped to the Japanese soil.
Is it possible to have found pesticide 3000 times above the permitted level?
Only the Japanese Right wings group, or those in Japan who has an agenda against China will believe that the pesticide is from the Chinese factory.
Common sense will prevail.
[...] results showed no problems in the manufacturing process, as the detected pesticide (dichlorvos) has never even been used by the company, deeming the contaminated batch of beans an isolated [...]
If Japan keeps on “finding” pesticides or residues in chinese food exports, THEN STOP BUYING ALL JAPANESE GOODS IN CHINA.
CLEARLY THIS IS A CASE OF DELIBERATE SABOTAGE TO HARM CHINESE EXPORTS AND ONE CAN CONJECTURE WHO THE POSSIBLE ENEMIES ARE, NOT ONLY JAPANESE RIGHT WING GROUPS - ALTHOUGH THEY ARE THE PRIME SUSPECTS.
I don’t know why the Chinese government is so weak. China is THE LARGEST MARKET FOR JAPANESE GOODS and if some people keep contaminating Chinese products over there, then it is high time that all Chinese boycott Japanese goods.
Their economy depend on the Chinese peoples’ pockets and we are Japan’s and S. Korea’s LARGEST TRADING PARTNER, helping to keep their economy afloat in these difficult times.
The least they could do is to feel a bit grateful for our purchases of their goods which we can get anywhere.
One more incident like this where tests by the Chinese on their side fail to find any such contaminants while only the Japanese side “finds” the contaminants, THEN ALL CHINESE STOP BUYING JAPANESE GOODS.
Europe would be too happy to sell us their technology and machines. Why CRAWL to the Japanese when they don’t like us ? They only want our money .Where is your dignity, China ?
While the Chinese government feels exuberant and optimistic over better ties with Japan, the reality is, according to surveys and polls done in Japan, only a small minority ( some 20 to 30%) of the Japanese view positively the ties between China and Japan. THe rest still subscribe to the China Threat.
HAVEN’T YOU READ IN THE PAPERS TODAY THAT JAPAN AND INDIA ARE GOING TO SIGN A SECURITY PACT - OBVIOUSLY AIMED AT CHINA ?
So why this misplaced and unfounded optimism and warmth from the Chinese side ( only the stupid Communist government feels that the Japs like them )towrds the Japanese, who never had such a corresponding warmth towards China.
Come on, you Chinese people. Wake up. Japan and India don’t like Chiona at all. Only your stupid leaders think that other peoples like the Chinese.
BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS, if they try another poisoning case like this.
BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS, THE YOUTH OF CHINA, ALL PATRIOTS OF CHINA.
BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS !!
BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS !!!
They benefit more than the Chinese from the China-Japan Trade.
We buy more from them than they buy from us, and yet they try to create tricks to cripple our exports.
There is also the possibility that other anti-China interest groups may deliberately try to sabotage the booming China-Japan Trade, to the detriment of China.
China must now exercise VERY STRINGENT and Preventive SUPERVISION to detect sabotage at all levels of production, from the shopfloor to the packing and dispatch centers, by installing Closed Circuit Television and appointing alert preventive inspectors at every step of the production chain.
She must check seriously the temporary workers, the regular workers and everyone. It just requires ONE PERSON to slip in something to damage the entire credibility of the chinese food export range.
Since you are so good at censoring the media and internet, use those skills to censor and CHECK on EVERY WORKER’S actions within the factory.
You can’t afford to relax even for an instant. You have too many enemies, man !
The poisoned dumplings case is very strange. Tests by the Chinese side and inspection of the factory failed to produce any evidence of neglect. Only the japanese side found contamination.
But after a few months, some dumplings were found to poison the Chinese too.
Clearly this is a case of SABOTAGE by someone in any phase of the production and export processes.
Poor China, you are beseiged on every side . Definitely there are all kinds of people who cannot wait for the chance to further sully the image of your food products, whose image and credibilitu was first damaged by YOURSELVES.
Now they are latching on this golden opportunity afforded by your bad reputation TO DRIVE THE KNIFE IN AND FINISH OFF YOUR ECONOMY AND YOUR WHOLE NATION.
And they will come many many times in glee over your demise.
Man, you still are not aware of this and still think that the rest of the world likes you.
WAKE UP FROM YOUR SELF-DELUDING ROSY VIEW OF YOURSELF AND OF OTHEWRS.
Really take a poll in japan, S. Korea and India, and you will suffer a cardiac shock to realise that they all don’t like CHINA. THEY ONLY WANT HER MONEY !!!
For the sake of your self-deluding rosy image of yourselves ( and an equally self-deluding rosy view of the “goodwill” of other nations to China ), you purposely covered up the Melanine in Milk problem to prevent an outbreak of virulent negative condemnaation of China by the Western Media especially in the wake of the extremely difficult time characterised by the international uproar and censure of China re the Tibet riots.
For the sake of your image and face, you chose to sacrifice your own people to PLEASE THE BLOODY WESTERNERS , and you think they do like you.
Now what do you get ? Anger from your own people and, paradoxically, MORE CONDEMNATION FROM THE WEST RE YOUR DIRTY FOOD PRODUCTION.And destroying your own credibility in trying to fawn to the West like fawning dogs.
STOP TRYING TO PLEASE THE WEST. STOP TRYING TO WIN THEIR APPROVAL AND PRAISE.
YOUR OWN PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT. NEVER SACRIFICE YOUR OWN CHINESE JUST TO SECURE WESTERN APPROVAL. Learn a lesson from the Melanine issue.
TO HELL WITH WHAT THE WEST WILL SAY OR THINK.
CARE ONLY ABOUT WHAT GOD AND YOUR CONSCIENCE WILL SAY.
CARE FIRST FOR YOUR OWN PEOPLE, THEIR WELFARE, HEALTH AND SAFETY.
STOP CURRYING FAVOUR WITH THE WEST AND JAPAN
Stop staging international events or competitions to gain image or face.
Nobody really likes you, neither the West or the East. They only SALIVATE FOR YOUR MONEY, but dislike you deep inside them.
Work honestly and diligently , abide by stringent standards in all areas, from morals to sanitary and health requirements, to produce our own decent and DIGNIFIED society that we can be proud of , of which we can have a clean conscience, without fawning for other peoples’ approval.
SEEK APPROVAL IN THE EYES OF GOD FIRST, and everything else will fall in place.
For those who keep on taking advantage ( by shenanigans, trickeries and deliberate contamination )of our already tainted food safety reputation, BOYCOTT THE GOODS FROM THOSE COUNTRIES.
To the Youth of China : Rise up against those nations or peoples who purposely want to hurt China.
Your purchasing power ( your pockets ) are the greatest weapon. USE IT.
You do not have to follow the self-deluding fantasies of your leaders ( who think that the World has a positive view of China ).
Exercise your people’s power at the grassroots level ( by boycotting enemies’ goods )and help to uphold the dignity of our nation.
Sometimes your leaders can be very stupid, Eg. Mao Ze Dong. He did not even demand an apology from the Japanese AND NOT EVEN A CENT OF WAR REPARATIONS from Japan, but simply cozied up to the Japs like a grinning fat fool, to open china’s market and cheap sweat labour for the immense profits of the Japanese companies. He ( Mao) could even have received some money from the Japanese crooks, while the souls of the victims of the Holocaust carried out by Japanese troops cry in anguish for justice, for at least an admission by the Japanese of War Crimes and a repentant attitude from the Japs.