A team of Chinese experts met with their Japanese counterparts
over a food poisoning case involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings
Sunday afternoon at the Japanese Cabinet Office.
During the talks, experts from the two sides will concentrate on
the question of how the pesticide substance called methamidophos
got into the food products by a mysteriously huge amount since the
Chinese producer, the Tian Yang Food Plant in north China's Hebei
Province, never used such material in its factory.
The two sides have agreed to refrain from making any subjective
conclusion before a thorough investigation and a full exchange of
views, Chinese embassy officials told Xinhua.
The five-member Chinese team, consists of officials and experts
from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection
and Quarantine (AQSIQ), the Commerce Ministry, the Certification
and Accreditation Administration, the Academy of Inspection and
Quarantine, and Hebei provincial quality watchdog, arrived in Tokyo
earlier Sunday afternoon.
Li Chunfeng, vice director of the Import and Export Food Safety
Bureau of the AQSIQ and head of the team, has pledged to have close
cooperation with the Japanese side for an objective and fair
outcome.
The Japanese side consists of experts and officials of the
Cabinet Office and the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry.
(Xinhua News Agency February 3, 2008)
