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brento1138
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 Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:21 am Post subject: Rat head found in popular snack! |
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Hahaha... Not great for China's rep is it? Who here thinks twice before buying a food product that reads "made in China" ??? I picked up a jar of peanut butter at my local shop, but it looked very cheap and was made in China... put it back. Gonna wait till I go to a bigger supermarket to buy the quality stuff...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's food authorities will investigate a factory in China after a bag of a popular snack food it produced was found to contain what appeared to be a rat's head.
The suspected animal part was found in a popular snack made in China.
The Korea Food and Drug Administration will send investigators to the factory in Qingdao in eastern China, which performs initial production steps for shrimp crackers sold by South Korea's leading processed food company Nongshim, said Choi Jong-dong, a KFDA official.
An agency official has been negotiating with Chinese authorities to schedule the probe, Choi said. China's reputation as an exporter has taken a beating in the past year following recalls of products including the toothpaste, toys tainted with lead, and pet food fortified with the toxic chemical melamine.
Nongshim has apologized for the incident and this week began recalling the snack from shops across South Korea, said company spokesman Hyun Seok.
The snack -- called "Saewuggang" in Korean -- is one of the most popular in South Korea since it first went on sale in 1971. Nongshim said the snack's annual sales volume was 60 billion won ($59 million, �38 million) in recent years. |
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/skorea.contaminated.food.ap/index.html |
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Milwaukiedave
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mmmm...rat head!
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Enrico Palazzo
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Joined: 11 Mar 2008
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No wonder, my snack had a kind of spicy, exotic flavor to it.  Where can I get some more? After that, you should have civets coffee. Anyone read that book by Upton Sinclair called "The Jungle". This thread made me think of that. |
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