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China closes 3 firms related to tainted products
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CHINA'S quality watchdog has shut down three companies involved in recent food and drug scandals, but defended a tire maker and a boiler company as victims of untrue media reports.
The General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine revoked the business license of Taixing Glycerin Factory in Jiangsu Province.
The company used a confusing product name – TD glycerin – and failed to clearly indicate its ingredients, which included toxic diethylene glycol.
Panamanian merchants bought the products and changed the product name into "pure glycerin," which is allowed in pharmaceuticals in the United States and changed its shelf-life to four years, which led to the death of 51 people, the administration said.
The Chinese company's plant was shut down and it is banned from producing TD glycerin, the administration said.
The administration also revoked business licenses of two other companies whose contaminated wheat gluten and rice protein killed dogs and cats in the United States.
Local police have detained the managers of the two companies and will press legal action against them, the administration said.
Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co Ltd and Binzhou Futian Biology Technology Co Ltd added melamine to wheat gluten and rice protein to meet contractual demands for the amount of protein in the products.
Melamine, used in plastics, fertilizers and flame retardants, has no nutritional value but contains nitrogen, which makes products with it appear to have more protein.
They also evaded checks by labeling the products as exports that were not subject to quality inspection, the administration said.
The watchdog also said the tires, made by a Hangzhou company, which the United States claimed as the cause of a deadly traffic accident, had no problem.
A vehicle with four passengers crashed in the United States, killing two of them in August. The US alleged that the accident was due to problematic tires produced by China's Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co Ltd.
China's quality regulator said the vehicle used different tires, three from Zhongce and one from Michelin, which led to the accident.
The administration has carried out tests on the same models of the allegedly flawed tires and found that all met US safety requirements.
The administration also refuted Japanese media reports alleging that a batch of boilers exported from China contained lead.
The administration conducted a survey and proved that the batch of boilers were receiving strict checks before they were shipped to Japan and the lead these boilers contained didn't exceed standards in either China or Japan.
In another case, the Philippine food and drugs bureau claimed on Sunday that White Rabbit candies, one of China's best known candy brands, contained the potential carcinogenic formaldehyde.
Li Changjiang, the director of the administration, refuted the saying today.
"The Philippine government hasn't contacted us and the country's embassy in China couldn't offer evidence," Li said.
"We have conducted strict tests on the candies and concluded that no formaldehyde was added in the candies," said Li.
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