Thread: Chinese factory recycling used, non-disinfected chopsticks

Dirty Chopsticks Add To Chinese Food and Product Safety Woes

Wednesday, August 22 2007 @ 09:03 AM Central Daylight Time
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Chinese health authorities and police raided a Beijing factory, which was found to recycle used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without disinfecting them.

The arrest comes amid a string of Chinese food and product safety scares.

There has been a prevalence of counterfeit, poorly-produced and dangerous products in China, whose exports have been rocked in recent months by a spate of safety scandals, ranging from melamine pet food to substandard medicine, tires, toothpaste and lead-tainted toys.

Police raided the factory and seized about half a million pairs of recycled disposable bamboo chopsticks, as well as the factory’s packaging machine, the Beijing News said.

The owner, known only by his surname Wu, said he had sold the recycled chopsticks for 0.04 yuan a pair and earned an average of about 1,000 yuan ($130) a day. Wu, who was found to have no license to sell the goods, said he had sold 100,000 pairs a day when business was brisk.

China, which is on track to overtake the United States this year as the world's second-largest exporter, lacks the manpower and political will to enforce stricter food and drug safety regulations at home or for export, and has only until recently began to fully scrutinize imports.

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

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Now dirty chopsticks picked up in China scare
Reuters
Wednesday, August 22, 2007; 12:23 AM
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest is 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 recycled disposable bamboo chopsticks and a packaging machine, the Beijing News said.

The owner, identified only by his surname Wu, said he had sold the recycled 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, on track to overtake the United States this year as the world's second-largest exporter, lacks a basic food safety law and the manpower to enforce food and drug safety regulations at home or for export. Imports are generally carefully scrutinized.

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 Chinese-made toys by U.S. giant Mattel had committed suicide, according to Hong Kong media.

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.

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This country has so many problems. Not to take away from our own... Our back yard is screwed up from the Bush administration

That is really gross!

These releases are all for show. China is a Communist Country. Nothing is printed, without the government's approval. This is classic damage control and most likely not even the truth. Communist don't tell the truth, when they have done something wrong.

The truth is probably that Wu is being taught a lesson and at the same time being used to look like they are cleaing up their dirty export business.

The world would have never known about Chernoval nuclear meltdown, if it had not been detected as a major radiation event. Also, the USSR needed experts from around the world to assist with the injured and contaminated areas.

Really good example of the Communist admit nothing strategy is found in a scene of hunt for Red October over a bowl of jelly beans. The Soviet ambassador is asking the US President about looking for a sub that he believes the US has captured and the Pres says you lost a sub. Of course the he said, no. With Communist, you shouldn't believe what they release to the media.

There is some truth to Clancey's Hunt for Red October. It's a combination of two stories. The first half is said to be about the sub Torozhevoy or "Sentry" and the last half is about K-129 a ballistic missile sub lost in the North Pacific.

Take it with a grain of salt.

Dixie

Gee......next thing you know we'll be getting recycled fortunes in our fortune cookies.....

Originally Posted by crazybird

Gee......next thing you know we'll be getting recycled fortunes in our fortune cookies.....

...with Mao slogans on the collective good of illegal immigration