International Law

Feeling a Bit Queasy

By Stan

The journalist’s new best friend — any story involving Chinese food and illness. Get used to it.

Here’s an example from our friends in Tokyo, courtesy of Yahoo:

Two employees of a Japanese confectionery company fell sick after eating China-made bean paste in the latest apparent food scare here, police and the firm said Saturday.

The workers at Marusei Honten confectionery in central Nagano prefecture noticed a strange smell like petroleum oil when they opened the five-kilogram (11-pound) package of red-bean paste on Friday, police said.

They tasted it to check on the quality and felt sick soon afterwards, police said.

Full post as published by China Hearsay on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).