Hmmm...The U.S. finds 'poison' in Chinese wheat product/China complains about quality of U.S. goods

[Dover]

Trade wars? Sabotage? Retaliation?

China turns cold on foreign brands
By Robert Hartmann

HONG KONG - Many makers of international brand-name products have flocked to China in recent years, particularly after the country's accession to the World Trade Organization, to tap the potentially huge market. But are such world-famous brands trusted by Chinese consumers? Not really. In fact, Chinese consumer confidence in foreign brand-name products is decreasing after frequent media reports about their shabby quality.

Early this month, two young men from Hangzhou, provincial capital of Zhejiang in eastern China, sued the Zhongcui Foodstuff Co Ltd for producing and putting on the market Coca-Cola and Sprite drinks containing the preservative sodium benzoate, which has been proved to be harmful to human health when consumed over a long period. The plaintiffs accused the manufacturers of covering up the preservative's chemical nature, thus depriving the consumer of "the right to know". The case is reported to have been accepted by a court in Hangzhou's Jianggan district and will soon go to trial...cont'd

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/IC28Cb03.html

[rumpel]

1. last night I posted

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=546382&mesg_id=546382

(I can not copy and paste from the site right now - for some reason the page does not load for me right now - maybe overloaded...)

[Dover]

2. I've no doubt our food quality and processing is compromised by less oversight

but I wonder if this whole pet food scare, with it's focus on China, might not be other than it seems. How could the U.S. retaliate for China's apparent media supported disapproval of U.S. goods?
Perhaps by giving them some of the same medicine....or poison?
They are pros at creating scares and this whole thing is just strange and still unresolved.
There is a disconnect between what they are saying is in the product and the actual known effects of that chemical on a pet. Some vets don't see the connection between what they are seeing and the type of problems connected to the chemical. Just saying...