The Poisonous Dumplings

January 31, 2008, the Japanese domestic Medias said that people were poisoned by frozen dumplings which were made in china.
Japan's Kyodo News Service reported that Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, a three-people-family got poisoning after eating the Chinese frozen dumplings. According to the police, the frozen dumplings which was made in China, was imported by Tokyo's Shinagawa district JT food import company. The family ate the dumplings on 5th evening January, after that they felt vomiting and diarrhea, so they went to hospital and had to stay in hosp ital for 10 to 14 days because of the food poisoning
Police found methamidophos, a kind of drug which was almost non-organic in .Police believed that the drug may be mixed with dumplings in the production process, and is a breach of the "Food Hygiene Law" and other suspects under investigation.
As the affair continued, the frozen dumplings in the cause poisoning incidents have become more complicated and confusing. According to the police investigation, toxic organophosphate insecticides, "methamidophos soluble liquid" very likely is attached to the dumpling skin. At the same time, Chiba City found "poisonous dumplings" in the concentration of toxic components up to 130 ppm (concentration units), and Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, from the dumplings’ overpack found a hole with diameter of 3 mm . In addition, the two Japanese companies confirmed that the Tianyang foreign food factory in Hebei Province had a veery good management; it is suspected methamidophos were put by some people. It is said that the number of people which had eaten Chinese frozen dumplings and felt sick is over 500.

Japan "Kobe News" on February 13 article, the original title was "The so-called dumplings poisoning caused by physical discomfort, mostly because of the flu.” In the article it said that ‘According to Health Ministry survey, a total of 2,773 people reported adverse reactions after eating, and in fact, the number of people which are able to determine organophosphate poisoning are only in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture’s 10 people. Most of others are caused by influenza viruses and felt physical discomfort.’
Actually, this event is a great hit for Chinese food exporting industries. As we know ,China is the ‘World Factory’, you can find the things that are made in China everywhere, but now ,many country are reducing the food import from China because of the “Poisonous Dumplings”. Maybe the Chinese government should have a more tighten Food Inspection System to make sure that the food is all healthy and let the consumers in the whole world rest assured.
This event hasn’t finished, we even don’t know whether it is poisoning during the producing or during the selling in Japan ,but the criticisms of the Chinese production have occupied all the newspapers, and these reports give the consumers wrong feelings that all the things that are made in China are poisonous . Maybe behind this event, there are more things about policy that we can’t know, I’m also not sure about this , I just hope the medias can give this event fair reports.