A joint investigation team of China and Japan to the Tianyang
Food company, in north China’s Hebei Province, has not detected
abnormity after a half-day inspection tour in the plant, both
Japanese and Chinese investigators said?early Wednesday
morning.
"The plant is very clean and well managed, and no abnormity has
been detected," a Japanese investigator told the press. Japan will
conduct further analysis based on information and data collected in
the plant, he said.
Wang Daning, director of the department of food import and
export safety under the General Administration of Quality
Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), said that China and
Japan have been cooperating well with each other, and the Chinese
side has been letting Japanese investigators see related materials
and equipments as many as possible.
So far, Japanese police have confirmed that at least 10 people
fell sick after eating dumplings laced with the highly toxic
organophosphate pesticide called methamidophos made by Tianyang
Food.
Both governments of China and Japan have been struggling to find
what actually had happened. A Japanese investigation team came to
China and held talks with China Tuesday morning, then to Tianyang
Food in Shijiazhuang in the afternoon and worked till 1 a.m. the
next morning.
(Xinhua News Agency February 6, 2008)