China detains head of gluten export company

[Eugene]

Source: International Herald Tribune

China detains head of gluten export company

By David Barboza
Published: May 3, 2007

SHANGHAI: The general manager of one of the companies accused of selling
contaminated wheat gluten to U.S. pet-food suppliers has been detained by
the Chinese authorities, according to police officials here and a person who
was briefed on the investigation.

The general manager, Mao Lijun, who heads Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology
Development, is being held in Jiangsu Province, about 500 kilometers, or 310
miles, northwest of Shanghai, although a police spokesman in Pei County
declined to say on what charges.

In an interview by telephone a few weeks ago, Mao denied any knowledge of
how melamine, an industrial chemical, had tainted pet-food supplies sold under
his company label this year. He also insisted that his company had never
exported any wheat gluten and that his products were only sold in the
domestic market.

But regulators in the United States named Xuzhou Anying and another company,
Binzhou Futian Biology Technology in Shandong Province, as the only sources
of the tainted ingredients that led to one of the biggest pet-food recalls in U.S.
history.

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Read more: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/03/business/food.php

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2. I suspect his family will be getting a bill for a bullet in the near future.

Anything to keep the American money flowing in.

[rumpel]

3. I wonder whether FDA ever gets to inteview them

It would be a shame, if this is just an arrest to calm down the international community, as this issue probably is a mjor blow to the Trade.
It appears the issue is far more widespread and many more companies are invloved. If they settle with the idea of only these 2 companies, I am afraid this will resurface in the near future, and the actual reason and source of contamination will never be known.

[candice]

4. ...they hope it all blows over and people won't see where their ingredients

come from, as long as our labeling can't be honest. Me, I'm not buying any vitamins/supplements unless I can guarantee they aren't from China and no food products, although labeling will trick me. As for other goods, only what I need and if they are not available locally or from American companies. The $3 billion in debt that China holds over us (that is, the Communist unelected government, not the poor workers) is scary.