I am personally upset that I won't be able to stuff myself on my favorite bite-sized salty snack. I am equally disconcerted at both the magnitude of the tainted gyoza's impact (nearly 500 people in 38 of Japan's 50 prefectures) and the preliminary findings as to its possible cause (from the Japan Times):
The head of the Chinese delegation in Japan for talks over recent food poisonings said Wednesday he believes the Chinese-made frozen "gyoza" dumplings were deliberately tainted with pesticide after being shipped from the factory and not during the production process.
This has sparked wide-spread mistrust of not only gyoza but of foods imported from China on a whole. Aside from the ramifications for the Japanese company responsible for importing and distributing the gyoza, this new gaff in the world of Chinese exports further shatters the credibility of its products and producers in the minds of consumers around the world (now, in Japan despite assurance of this being a 'specific case' apart from 'structural problems').Speaking at a joint news conference with the Japanese side in Tokyo, Li Chunfeng stressed that Tianyang Food's factory in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province — where the tainted dumplings were made — has strict and thorough quality control measures that made it almost impossible to mix the toxic substance there.
"I believe that the incident did not stem from structural problems but rather is a specific case," Li, vice director of China's Import and Export Food Safety Bureau at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said after morning talks with the Japanese officials."
Looks like, I'll have to wait a while before I dig in again.
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