Chopsticks picked up in new China scare

[Symantec9]

Another scary news...

 

Chopsticks picked up in new China scare

Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:44 AM ET

 

 

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory sold up to 100,000 pairs of disposable chopsticks a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of food and product safety scares.

 

Counterfeit, shoddy and dangerous products are widespread in China, whose exports have been rocked in recent months by a spate of safety scandals, ranging from pet food to medicine, tires, toothpaste and toys.

 

Officials raided the factory and seized about half a million pairs of disposable bamboo chopsticks and a packaging machine, the Beijing News said in a story headlined "Dirty Chopsticks."

 

The owner, identified only by his surname Wu, said he had sold the chopsticks for 0.04 yuan a pair and made an average of about 1,000 yuan ($130) a day.

 

Wu, who had no license to sell the goods, said he had sold 100,000 pairs a day when business was good.

 

China lacks the manpower to enforce food and drug safety regulations at home or for export. Imports are generally carefully scrutinized.

 

Shao Mingli, the country's food and drug watchdog chief, conceded that in recent years the safety situation had "indeed been relatively grim."

 

But in a posting on the central government's Web site (www.gov.cn), Shao vowed it would take "about five years of hard work" to realize an "obvious turnaround" in management order and food and drug safety across the country.

 

"The number of cases of fake food and drug products and criminal activities will be effectively curbed," Shao said.

 

A lack of business ethics and a spiritual vacuum after China embraced economic reforms in the late 1970s have been blamed for unscrupulous business practices and corruption.

 

In Guangzhou, capital of booming Guangdong province in south China, Mayor Zhang Guangning vowed to bankrupt serious violators of food and product safety.

 

The Hong Kong owner of a Guangdong manufacturer at the centre of a recall of millions of Chinese-made toys by U.S. giant Mattel had committed suicide, according to Hong Kong media.

 

China has said the world should have faith in the "made-in-China" label and that a spate of product recalls has been unfair, biased and politically motivated.

 

"No country can guarantee their food to be 100 percent safe, but if one in 100 or even in 1,000 of our products has quality problems, we will deal with it seriously," Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said on Tuesday.

 

"China strongly opposes (some countries) extending individual economic and trade problems, and thus conducting trade protection," Bo said in a report on the ministry's Web site (www.mofcom.gov.cn).

 

In the latest in a series of tit-for-tat measures, China has accused the United States of exporting substandard soybean shipments to China and requested "effective measures" be taken.

[Hicksau]

reputation jialat..

 

esp near olympics ..

[Maxus-MIFA9]

Chopsticks........

 

 

Wait till you see this...............

 

This is how they prepare pickles for packing.

 

 

 

[Sickscientist]

 

No sense of hygiene at all.....

[Penthousepauper]

I better think twice about products made in china, whether its food or toys..... now, i hope my made in china dvd player won't catch fire....

[Mzrmazda3]

These China dudes are really

[Mzrmazda3]

Eeee......

[Qpik]

duno nvr sterilise is worse or bleaching...

 

u see those extreme "white" chopsticks or napkin, those r subjected to extreme bleaching. after tat, leave it dry & packed.

[Viviobluerex]

Fwah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Viviobluerex]

That's it!

 

No more preserved Pickles for me.

 

Be it from China, Malaysia, Indonesia or Singapore!

 

 

 

 

 

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[Midnight]

I bring my own chopsticks. Play a small part in reducing waste too.

[Comfy]

*puke...

[Comfy]

i think using own chopsticks are best.. there are those metal chopsticks that can be pull apart for easy storage..

[Meecar]

if you go behind your coffee shop and see how they prepARE your food

 

you dont really need to go china to see those things

 

[Hungryforcar]

do you mean china ppl preparing food in foodcourt

[Qpik]

actually nothing beats using yr hand. especially when eating KFC (original), chilli crab, drunken prawn yummy when u lick the juice.

 

back to chopsticks, last time i got a colleague whose mother will bring her own chopsticks (disposable). so i can imagine the no. of chopsticks she carries with her all the time. but, the irony is that it is made in China

[Comfy]

ya using hands were great for dry food.. but those sauce kind.. a bit too sticky la.. i tried using chopsticks in KFC before and look like a fool in there colleague's mother too funny liao.. made in china, sent to sillipore then use in china again

[Suhong]

Not Only Chopsticks....

 

Check out this wk 8days(felicia and pinghui)

 

Charcoal roasted chicken....

 

This person got an email...wonder any mcf receive it?

 

Here it goes...

the person starts the day by going around to find dead chicken!!!!!!

( DEAD CHICKEN)!!! cost 1rmb there...

Then later anyhow place it....de-feather them after putting in RUSTY WOK, some even puke because of the smell...soak it in discarded BATH TUB the water in there oso dity

 

Colour the chicken

 

Anyone intending to go china pls eat vege there heard quite fresh too

 

 

Hope someone upload pix