The Japanese government sent a team of officials and experts to China on Monday to investigate a food poisoning case involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings.
At a news conference, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary NobutakaMachimura said the four-member team will conduct on-the-spot inspection of the factory and exchange views with officials of the Chinese government.
The team are made up of officials from the Cabinet Office, the Foreign Ministry, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry. It is still unknown how long the team will stay in China.
While suspicious clues such as small holes on some packages remain inexplainable, it's currently still unknown whether the food products were contaminated during the production and transportation process in China.
Machimura said that the two sides "are finding out various facts little by little."
Although at least several hundreds throughout Japan have reported discomfort due allegedly to having related Chinese food in the last several days, the number of people confirmed by the Japanese government as suffering from eating the poisoned dumpling remained at 10.
It remains mysterious that how the pesticide substance called methamidophos got into the food products by huge amount since the Chinese producer, the Tian Yang Food Plant in north China's Hebei province, never used such material in its factory.
Source: Xinhua
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