2008年02月07日
Fenqing poisoned the dumplings
Activists may have poisoned China dumplings: media
Wed Feb 6, 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Activists opposed to Chinese government ties with Japan may have contaminated Chinese-made dumplings that caused 10 people in Japan to fall ill, Japanese media quoted a senior Chinese food safety official as saying on Wednesday.
The discovery of pesticide on the dumplings has received widespread media coverage in Japan, prompted health queries from nearly 4,000 people and led the importer of the dumplings, Japan Tobacco Inc, and rival Nissin Food Products Co Ltd to call off the planned merger of their frozen food operations.
"A small group who do not wish development of Sino-Japanese friendship may have taken extreme measures," Kyodo news agency quoted Wei Chuanzhong, vice minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, as telling a Japanese fact-finding mission in China.
Japan's health minister has also raised the possibility that the food had been deliberately contaminated. Chinese government officials were not immediately available to comment.
Japanese police are investigating the case on suspicion of attempted murder after a 5-year-old girl fell critically ill after eating the dumplings, a popular meal in Asia known as gyoza in Japan. The girl has since recovered.
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Wed Feb 6, 2008
TOKYO (Reuters) - Activists opposed to Chinese government ties with Japan may have contaminated Chinese-made dumplings that caused 10 people in Japan to fall ill, Japanese media quoted a senior Chinese food safety official as saying on Wednesday.
The discovery of pesticide on the dumplings has received widespread media coverage in Japan, prompted health queries from nearly 4,000 people and led the importer of the dumplings, Japan Tobacco Inc, and rival Nissin Food Products Co Ltd to call off the planned merger of their frozen food operations."A small group who do not wish development of Sino-Japanese friendship may have taken extreme measures," Kyodo news agency quoted Wei Chuanzhong, vice minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, as telling a Japanese fact-finding mission in China.
Japan's health minister has also raised the possibility that the food had been deliberately contaminated. Chinese government officials were not immediately available to comment.
Japanese police are investigating the case on suspicion of attempted murder after a 5-year-old girl fell critically ill after eating the dumplings, a popular meal in Asia known as gyoza in Japan. The girl has since recovered.
Activists like them?