China says Japanese-produced seasoned soy sauce, coffee tainted

Wednesday 05th November, 06:39 AM JST

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Spidey at 11:48 AM JST - 5th November

...while powered coffeeimported from Japan

I gotta get me some of that coffee!!

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Spidey at 11:49 AM JST - 5th November

Let the food wars begin!!!

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gogogo at 12:09 PM JST - 5th November

No wonder, Unimat coffee tastes like dirt anyway.
RakishGadfly at 12:17 PM JST - 5th November

Danged copper in coffee, ruining the taste of melamine in the milk.
Disillusioned at 01:19 PM JST - 5th November

This smells like bovine poo to me! However, it's not hard to think there is a bit of payback going on. After all, these two countries have been at each others throats for over a thousand years.
1eyedjack at 05:02 PM JST - 5th November

Yep, what goes around comes around. Gotta love the tenacity of the Chinese. I for one will be avoiding food products from "both" countries !
romulus3 at 05:37 PM JST - 5th November

Probably made with imported Chinese ingredients!

that was my first thought too.
TPOJ at 06:08 PM JST - 5th November

They have threshold levels for toxic compounds in China? Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, I guess.

They have threshold levels for toxic compounds everywhere. It's impossible, and unnecessary, to get to 0% for some stuff.

Yes, you have probably eaten all sorts of poisons, toxic compounds, etc. Most likely you did this today. Elimination is impractical, what food producers shoot for is to get this stuff below a safe threshold.
ca1ic0cat at 09:29 PM JST - 5th November

I don't understand what part of the process would result in copper being in coffee. I'm surprised that there is coffee being exported from Japan at all. Are they recycling the grounds from the office coffee pots?

I don't know where you would get arsenic in soy sauce either; maybe the water. We'll have to see what the test results are in Japan. Right now I'm expecting it's a ploy to deflect attention from Chinese products. Note that the "tainted" products were destroyed rather than held for joint tests.
gonemad at 10:43 PM JST - 5th November

It may be tit for tat by the Chinese, but probably rather in the sense that they started to check Japanese-made products much more strictly in order to find something.

In some areas, the Chinese food safety laws are considerably stricter (on paper...) than the respective laws in other countries. It may well be in this case, that the products were still considered safe under Japanese law, but they exceed the Chinese limits. At least the article states the amount of arsenic they found, so now if somebody could find out the limit in Japan...
Terrikus at 12:36 AM JST - 6th November

Probably made with imported Chinese ingredients!

Because clearly, Japan's own impeccable food safety record would never cast any doubt on the safety of their own products.
OssanAmerica at 04:38 AM JST - 6th November

While it's obviously a possibility that these products were tainted in Japan, a couple years ago China made some claims about American goods in a rather undisguised effort to "get back" at us when Chinese products were causing a furor here. I believe they did this to the SKoreans also when SKorea complained about Chinese red pepper. If true that the Chinese authorities actually destroyed this evidence prior to allowing Japanese or other investigators examine them and run tests, it looks all the more suspicious.
elbudamexicano at 07:59 AM JST - 6th November

Japan had, HAD a good record for food safety, but lately? No way! How many food scandals do we see every week? Changing the lables on meat,mangoes etc..so say they are Japanese (expensive) when the mangoes are really from Taiwan(cheaper) meat sold as wagyu (Japanese beef) but it is actually from a cheaper country. Japan also has many dirty secrets about it's food safety and good old China is just trying to help us out.
BlueHeaven77 at 11:26 AM JST - 6th November

It is not impossibile but sounds really suspicious. Japan is not a perfect world about food safety, but big brands usually pay great attention to food safety and a Chinese inspection sounds ridiculous with all that poisened food they produce and export. Should we think that China is changing is policy? I`m not ready to believe that...
Freakenese at 05:52 PM JST - 6th November

China tells Japan -- Results:Media exposure, and most probably quick Action.

New Zealand tells China about bad milk Results: Cover up, Dead children, and thousands sick.