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- China rejects pork imports from the States, Canada
Date: 17-Sep-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
CHINA has rejected shipments of pork kidneys from the United States and of spare ribs from Canada after finding traces of a banned growth agent in them, in the latest volley of cross-border accusations over product quality.
The Xinhua news agency cited the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) as saying that the 18.4-ton shipment of frozen kidneys and the 24-ton shipment of frozen pork ribs had been returned to the exporters by local quarantine officials in Guangdong.
The growth agent ractopamine, commonly used in the United States, is at the center of negotiations between U.S. and Chinese officials over the pork trade.
China has banned use of ractopamine and refuses to import pork containing it.
China has highlighted several quality concerns over U.S. products in recent month.
The country is also taking steps to clean up its own manufacturing sector, whose reputation has been tarnished by recent product recalls, including for lead-tainted toys.
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