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08:01, August 03, 2007 |
A senior Chinese official has lambasted foreign media for fabricating scares over Chinese food products.
Some foreign media had viciously sensationalized product quality problems and food scares concerning a small number of Chinese goods or companies, said Vice Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng.
Some media fabricated safety problems in campaigns to block imports of Chinese goods, which he described as de facto trade protectionism, he said.
Gao said some foreign media reports told of Chinese boys as young as six growing moustaches and girls aged seven growing breasts after eating hormone-tainted food.
He also said some media had branded China-made products "killers".
"We welcome impartial media reports as they will help us seek truth from the facts and take appropriate measures to rectify problems.
"Like other governments around the world, the Chinese government pays great attention to safety and when problems occur, we never shirk, but deal with them responsibly after finding the facts," Gao said.
The government has long been cracking down on fake, low-quality and unsafe products, but it was almost impossible to eradicate them as a small minority of local companies lacked social responsibility.
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