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China revokes license of companies entangled with tainted wheat gluten exports (2) |
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17:39, July 20, 2007 |
Li said the local public security authorities had launched
investigations into the cases and had detained related company officials. The two companies have been closed down.
The administration said it had found no further melamine-contaminated products after checking 399 samples from 173 exporters nationwide.
It reaffirmed that the manufacturer of "TD glycerin", which was involved in the deaths of dozens of people in Panama who took medicine containing diethylene glycol, had been closed down and its business license had been revoked.
The Glycerin Factory of Taixing City in Jiangsu Province used a confusing product name, "TD glycerin", which was easily misinterpreted as glycerin, and failed to clearly indicate its ingredient of toxic diethylene glycol known as DEG in exporting the product.
Panamanian merchants changed the product name into "pure glycerin", which is allowed to be used in pharmaceuticals in the United States, when they bought the products.
China asked domestic enterprises to stop using DEG as the raw material for toothpaste last week after a number of countries banned the sale of toothpaste containing this chemical.
While affirming the contribution of media reports in food safety supervision and welcoming the foreign media''s concerns on Chinese food safety issues, Li also pointed out that some reports had been unfaithful to the truth.
The administration said a Chinese rubber company had been wrongly accused of producing unsafe tires exported to the United States.
The U.S. importer - Foreign Tyre Sales, Inc. (FTS), which earlier blamed the Chinese-made tires for a fatal accident that killed two , said in its latest report released on July 2 that the Chinese-made tires involved in the accident far exceeded the U.S. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
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