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13:05, July 18, 2007 |
At a time when Chinese products have come under fire for being defective, "Made in China" labels still mean good quality and value for money to U.S. consumers as up-to-date statistics show the majority of Chinese goods meet U.S. standards.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on June 28 a block on imports of five species of seafood from China because of so-called contamination.
The announcement, coupled with reports of contaminated pet food ingredients, led some American media to place an equals sign between "Made in China" and substandard products.
However, a closer look at the data on Chinese imports would reveal the majority of them meet U.S. quality standards while only a fraction of them is problematic.
The FDA regulates food, drugs, medical devices and some radiation-emitting devices. FDA data showed Chinese seafood was seized at the border less than 400 times last year. By comparison, products from the Dominican Republic was stopped over 800 times and candy from Denmark was rejected more than 500 times during the same period.
The statistics also showed that in 2006 the sale of Dominican food in the United States amounted to 300 million U.S. dollars and Danish food hit 400 million dollars, whereas the sale of Chinese food reached 3.8 billion dollars.
From July 2006 through June of this year, the agency''s inspectors stopped 1,763 food shipments from India, followed by Mexico at 1,480, China 1,368, Dominican Republic 828, Denmark 543, Vietnam 533, Japan 508 and Italy 482 and Indonesia 460.
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