PRC 'quality' goods strike again

[isabeau_gower]

For everyone who thinks I'm blowing the whole China issue out of proportion

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[tameiki]

Saw the news report about this on NHK yesterday. We've been very carefully checking *every label* of anything we buy these days to make sure it's not coming from China. I'd much rather be safe than sorry :(

What makes this so scary is that, even if you buy a product that's not made in China, you don't know where the manufacturer got their ingredients...

[isabeau_gower]

Too true. I still check everything I get to the best of my ability and I buy much less preprepared stuff these days. The produce and meat law that will force country of origin to be disclosed has been pushed back but is supposed to go into effect later this year. Some companies are very forthright when you contact them and I really appreciate that. A lot act as though they've got something to hide.

[nekojita]

I saw that earlier in the week, and quite honestly, I'm surprised that more didn't get sick. I'm also wondering if stuff like this is behind the sudden 'Japanese Food' label they're talking about giving restaurants and such outside of the country.

[isabeau_gower]

I think the distributor sending back most of the pallet because it was 'sticky' is what saved a lot of folks. They probably just thought it was sugar syrup or something that had spilled from another pallet of food. We know better now. Thank goodness it sounds as though no one has died from this idiocy. How much more will it take, I wonder, before people really start paying attention?

[nekojita]

I'd seen the other day that they thought they might have been tampered w/, and today an article said that they definitely had been laced w/ the pesticide. Question is now, did it happen in China or Japan.