China has managed to do it again. This time it is pesticide contaminated frozen green beans exported to Japan. According to sources the pesticide dichlorvos was detected. Not only was it detected, it was 34,500 times more then the maximum allowed according to the Japanese positive list!!!
I don’t know which is worse the financial crisis or China food safety issues?
According to all the pundits a few months ago there was nothing wrong with the financial system. The same is true with China, saying they have food safety under control.
Then along comes Freddie Mac and Fannie Mac and AIG bailouts but everything is okay. In China it is the melamine tainted milk found but it has been brought under control.
Lehman goes bankrupt, Washington Mutual and Wachovia are headed that way as well (hopefully some white knight will come to the rescue.) More milk manufactures are producing milk with melamine, babies getting sick and some dying. And now we have candy, instant coffee and yoghurt with melamine.
Now the financial crisis has turned into a global route as banks collapse and others join the U.S. in bailouts, the result NO CONFIDENCE. China has now added the pesticide issue to a mounting of food safety issues. Pet food contaminated with melamine a year ago, Gyoza laced with pesticide exported to Japan, melamine contaminated milk found not only in the domestic market but exported to various countries throughout the world, and now the latest pesticide laced green beans.
According to the experts, the financial crisis is a little worse then expected but we are getting it under control, have faith. According to the Chinese authorities they didn’t detect any pesticides on the product and dichlorvos is not used in China, have faith.
CONFIDENCE??? Yes I do have confidence that we are not being told the truth.
Eat on!
Resources:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5082035/more-fall-ill-to-chinese-beans-official/
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/10/15/japan.beans/index.html?section=cnn_latest
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212179250.shtml
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