Hospital: Avoid Chinese company’s products

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Hospital: Avoid Chinese company’s products
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes,
Pacific edition, Sunday, February 3, 2008

CAMP LESTER, Okinawa — It’s not just Chinese dumplings that are making people in Japan sick lately.

News services have reported that nearly 500 people became sick after eating gyoza containing a pesticide that causes severe vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

The U.S. Naval Hospital here issued a warning Friday night that all products made by the Chinese manufacturer are suspected of containing traces of the pesticide.

“The frozen gyoza which caused illness in the initial case was imported by JT Foods, but all the products were made at a single factory in China, Hebei Foodstuffs Import & Export Group, Tianyang Food Processing,” the hospital’s press release says.

“The Government of Japan currently acknowledges that 19 companies in Japan import food products originating from the Hebei Foodstuffs facility.”


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