Contaminated Dumplings impact sales of frozen food in Japan
21 02 2008Senior Chinese officials have visited China this week to pledge that food safety is a prime concern to China and that the incident will be seriously investigated. Despite this and other announcements from Senior and Non-Senior officials in China consumers are not quite convinced. Daiei Inc., one of Japan’s major supermarket chains, stated that the sales of frozen food, mainly of Chinese origin, have dropped at least 30% compared to last year since the news of the poisoned dumplings emerged last week. On the other hand sales of produce used to make dumplings went up.
Ito Yokado, another supermarket operator, set up special areas inside its stores selling produce used to make your own dumplings.
Both China and Japan will have to handle this with extreme care since China is the second biggest supplier of food into Japan after the USA.
We’ll keep you posted on how this saga develops.
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