10 suffer food poisoning from China-made 'gyoza' dumplings

It happens. Elsewhere in asia sometimes people get sick from eating Japanese imported seafood. I remember it was the same in Japan a while ago when people caught harmful bacteria from eating raw food.

 

Everyplace in the world has food-poisoning problems, but NOT with insecticide.
China's out of control.
Clearly Beijing has no capacity or will to deal with profiteers who would crank out toxic garbage at undermarket prices for a greedy world. Lead-coated baby toys? No problem. Insecticide-flavored gyoza? No problem. Big profits for Japanese/western corporations who buy Chinese crap for cheap and sell it at a ridiculous mark-up? Priceless!

 

I wonder if the presence of insecticide was accidental or deliberate. It would not be too difficult to use a syringe to inject the insecticide into the gyoza. It would be hard for people to notice a little hole made by a syringe on the plastic bag containing the gyoza.

 

The Delight Factory, right?

 

Great point Sarge.... This is of course the same company that supplies Japan with cigarettes. They are used to trying to convince the public their products are safe.

 

I'm surprised other Japanese companies haven't tried to exploit the fear of Chinese garbage in food products. I, for one, hate having to search the label of the food I buy in this country looking to see if there is Chinese crap in it. I would love to see in bold letters on the front of the package something to the effect, "中国　フリー!" I believe this could be quite a marketing boon here.

 

Delights J-media ! J-people ate tons and tons of Gyoza
and only 10 suffered food poisoning and for that China is to be blamed? No such cases reported while eating made in Japan
food products? Food for thought !

 

I tried some frozen veges from China, they tasted very very bad.
Frozen gyoza sounds even worse.

"Every year there are about 76 million foodborne illnesses in the United States" - wiki

Anyone have figures for such illness frequency in Japan?

 

Saw an interesting report on Telly recently about veggies in China and the associated problems.
They went to the factory that sells the cabbage that end up in UFO Yaki-soba and also visited local shops.

The Vegetable shops in China sell special soap to wash veggies.
One chinese house-wife said that everybody on average washes the veggies 2~3 times with soap to get rid of the pesticides prior to cooking.

 

So even Co-op was co-opted by the tobacco poison company into importing Chinese poison. Yech. How can one avoid all Chinese food?

 

I always see these frozen products at 40-50% off at Ito Yokado but never even considered where the items were made in. Guess those Lazy mothers who prefer to throw give their precious children frozen/preservitized foods should learn to cook home-made Gyoza. Glad Frozen TV Dinners are made in the USA.

 

And an easy one to answer. Paper trail. Import/export documents. QA signoffs.


Yes, because all too many households in Japan have pesticides in their spice racks. Japanese are always grabbing the methamidophos instead of the salt.


No, because selling one (cheap) food product as another (expensive) food product in an attempt to maximize profits is not life-threatening. Selling a food or using an ingredient after its "best by" date is also generally not life-threatening. Mixing pesticides into your gyoza filling, though, is pretty dangerous. But not terribly surprising. I have read that the #1 form of murder in China is poisoning, usually by pesticides as they are cheap and readily available. If this was deliberate, and not just due to sheer incompetence/stupidity, there could be any number of reasons why Wang did it. Anger at Japan, anger at his boss, and attempt to cause problems for the company, who knows. Lesson: check your labels. If it says "made in China" or "product of China", leave it on the shelf. Don't eat it.

 

I think many here are confusing this with simple food poisoning, which usually involves bacteria. What we have here is a case of straight-up poisoning with a pesticide. What I would like to know if if any of the other packages of unsold gyoza from this same company contained pesticides too. Figuring this out might give the police a better idea of where to start if they want to turn this into a criminal investigation.

As someone else pointed out, Japanese consume a lot of gyoza, so I find it a little hard to believe that this pesticide poisoning is limited to just 10 cases, considering many more packages than this handful must have been sold in the countless Co-Ops that dot Japan's landscape. Why are the number of poisoning cases so low, if this is as widespread a problem, as many here suspect?


That might not be too bad an idea, although a bit scare-mongering, I think. But of course, with recent revelations that what a company says it uses in its products and what it really uses can be two very different things (i.e., the Japanese paper company whose paper advertised as being made from recycled paper was in fact not), it would be hard to take such a notice as "China Free" at face value.

 

They've gone from killing us with nicoteine to Chinese pesticides.

JT - Choose Your Poison.

Peace

 

good,but the price is low, is due to Currency exchange rate. Besides, we're talking of processed Chinese foods and not freshly cooked Chinese foods in Japan. the haters are so pathetic.