Home / Business / Food & Beverage Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read | Comment
Toxic chemicals detected in Japanese food once again
Adjust font size:

China's quality supervisor said Tuesday that it detected toxic chemicals in imported Japanese food for the second time in a week.

Tests conducted by the Tianjin Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found arsenic in a Japanese-brand soy sauce at five times the allowable level, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (GAQSIQ) said.

Arsenic is commonly used in agricultural insecticides and poisons.

The Tianjin bureau also detected excessive copper in imported Japanese coffee.

All the products were destroyed without entering the domestic market, GAQSIQ said.

The Guangdong Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau last week found Japan-produced soy sauce and mustard sauce were tainted by toluene and acetic ester.

(Xinhua News Agency November 5, 2008)

Tools: Save | Print | E-mail | Most Read
Comment
Pet Name
Anonymous
China Archives
Related >>
Most Viewed >>
- China targets 150-seat jumbo aircraft
- Oil refiners report huge losses
- Toxic chemicals detected in Japanese food once again
- China shares up 3% as regional markets rally
- Steel mills struggle to survive a downturn
- Output of Major Industrial Products
- Investment by Various Sectors
- Foreign Direct Investment by Country or Region
- National Price Index
- Value of Major Commodity Import
- Money Supply
- Exchange Rate and Foreign Exchange Reserve
- What does the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement cover?
- How to Set up a Foreign Capital Enterprise in China?
- How Does the VAT Works in China?
- How Much RMB or Foreign Currency Can Be Physically Carried Out of or Into China?
- What Is the Electrical Fitting in China?