Sounds like a good idea for War Criminals Bush & Cheney before we
slaughter them
for War Crimes.

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(no WMDs yet...)





On Jun 28, 8:20 am, wrote:
> June 28, 2007
> China insists its exports are safe
> By Audra Ang, Associated Press Writer
>
> BEIJING --China insisted Thursday that its exports are safe, issuing a
> rare direct commentary as international fears over Chinese products
> spread.
>
> Wang Xinpei, a spokesman for the Commerce Ministry, said China "has
> paid great attention" to the issue, especially food products because
> it concerns people's health.
>
> "It can be said that the quality of China's exports all are
> guaranteed," Wang told reporters at a regularly scheduled briefing.
>
> The statement was among Beijing's most public assertions of the safety
> of its exports since they came under scrutiny earlier this year with
> the deaths of dog and cats in North America blamed on Chinese wheat
> gluten tainted with the chemical melamine.
>
> Since then, U.S. authorities have turned away or recalled toxic fish,
> juice containing unsafe color additives and popular toy trains
> decorated with lead paint.
>
> Chinese-made toothpaste also has been banned by numerous countries in
> North and South America and Asia for containing diethylene glycol, or
> DEG, a chemical often found in antifreeze. It is also a low-cost --
> and sometimes deadly -- substitute for glycerin, a sweetener in many
> drugs.
>
> The New York Times reported Thursday that tainted Chinese toothpaste
> had been more widely distributed in the United States than had been
> previously reported. It said about 900,000 tubes have turned up in
> places including correctional facilities and some hospitals, not just
> at discount stores.
>
> Earlier this month, a spokesman for North Carolina's Department of
> Correction said Pacific brand toothpaste was distributed to prisoners
> who could not afford to buy a name brand at prison stores. The tubes
> were taken away after trace amounts of DEG was found in them.
>
> Officials in Georgia and North Carolina told the Times there had been
> no illnesses reported, and that the toothpaste in question was being
> replaced with brands not manufactured in China.
>
> On Wednesday, three Japanese importers recalled millions of Chinese-
> made travel toothpaste sets, many sold to inns and hotels, after they
> were found to contain as much as 6.2 percent of diethylene glycol.
>
> Wang, the Commerce Ministry spokesman, said Chinese experts have
> already "explained the situation."
>
> He gave no details, although the country's quality watchdog has in
> past cited tests from 2000 that it said showed toothpaste containing
> less than 15.6 percent diethylene glycol was harmless to humans.
>
> Also Wednesday, Beijing police raided a village where live pigs were
> force-fed wastewater to boost their weight before slaughter, state
> media reported.
>
> Plastic pipes had been forced down the pigs' throats and villagers had
> pumped each 220-pound pig with 44 pounds of wastewater, the Beijing
> Morning Post reported Thursday.
>
> Paperwork showed the pigs were headed for one of Beijing's main
> slaughterhouses and stamps on their ears indicated that they already
> had been through quarantine and inspection, the paper said. Suspects
> escaped during the raid and no arrests were made, it said.
>
> The case underscored China's chaotic food safety situation, where
> manufacturers and distributors often use unapproved additives, falsify
> expiration dates or find other methods of cutting corners to eke out
> small profits.
>
> Officials have in recent weeks underscored the need to tighten up
> inspections, punish violators and increase surveillance.
>
> Wei Chuanzhong, deputy director of the General Administration of
> Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said local governments
> "should be fully aware of the importance and improve responsibility
> for imported and exported food safety."
>
> His remarks, made during an inspection tour of the port city of
> Tianjin, were posted Thursday on the administration's Web site.
>
> Earlier this week, inspectors announced they had closed 180 food
> factories nationwide in the first half of this year and seized tons of
> candy, pickles, crackers and seafood tainted with formaldehyde,
> illegal dyes and industrial wax.
>
> "These are not isolated cases," Han Yi, an official with Wei's quality
> administration, was quoted as saying in Wednesday's state-run China
> Daily newspaper.
>
> Han's admission was significant because the agency has said in the
> past that safety violations were the work of a few rogue operators --
> a claim aimed at protecting China's billions of dollars of food
> exports.