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Recent American concerns<\/a> about the safety of food products from China seems to be matched by Chinese concern about food products from France and Australia:<\/p>\n

On May 17, China refused a shipment of five shipping containers of bottled Evian water, made by Groupe Danone. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said that the water contained unsafe bacterial levels.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal<\/i> quoted a spokeswoman for Danone who said “The difference is that the Chinese authorities have different standards based on treated water … When you have treated water, you have much less natural bacteria.” She also said that Evian complies with French and European safety standards. According to The Financial Times<\/i> “Danone said that there was no link between the Wahaha row and the Evian incident”, referring to Danone’s ongoing dispute with their Chinese joint venture partner.<\/p>\n

Reuters has also reported that China refused 30 tons of Australian frozen seafood because of heavy metal contamination.<\/p>\n

The moves above do not seem to be a reaction to the recent negative press coverage about Chinese food product safety. In fact, the refusals of imported food products show that China does<\/i> have high standards for safety written into law. But like most laws here in the Wild East, they are unenforceable.<\/p>\n

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