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Japan: China launches contaminated dumplings probe

Chinese authorities are conducting a criminal investigation into Chinese-made dumplings that sickened 10 people in Japan and touched off a food-safety scare, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Sunday. ...full story at CNews

from CNews on Sun, Aug 31 2008

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14 Feb 08 visit Dumplings 'were not sabotaged'  »  People's Daily There is almost no chance the Chinese-made dumplings that made 10 people sick in Japan were intentionally contaminated during production, a senior quality official said yesterday. "Reports that dissatisfied Chinese workers deliberately c ...
03 Feb 08 visit No pesticide detected in samples of Chinese dumplings exported to Japan  »  People's Daily Tests on Chinese-made dumplings suspected of causing a food poisoning outbreak in Japan passed a local inspection, a quarantine chief said on Saturday. The dumplings were suspected to contain methamidophos. Since 2004, China had ba ...
06 Feb 08 visit Tidbits: Dumplings, MP3s, online videos and kosher food  »  Shanghaiist Japanese investigators have found 'no abnormality' at the dumpling factory in Hebei Province at the centre of a food safety scare in Japan after hundreds of people suffered from pesticide poisoning from eating the dumplings. Traces of pesticide were found...
16 Feb 08 visit Dumplings in Japan poisoning case "unlikely contaminated in transport"  »  People's Daily The director of Hebei Province's quality inspection agency told reporters in Shijiazhuang on Friday that the two batches of dumplings involved in food poisoning case in Japan were unlikely to have been contaminated during the transportatio ...
14 Feb 08 visit Backgrounder: Timeline of China's investigation into dumpling poisoning case  »  People's Daily China's quality watchdog said on Wednesday that earlier reports saying dissatisfied Chinese workers deliberately contaminated Chinese-made dumplings that sickened 10 Japanese were "mere subjective guesswork". It suggested the two sides coul ...

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