Xinhua: Parasite Eggs Found in S.Korean Domestically Made Kimchi
by "Dioneae muscipula" <flytrapvenus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Nov 3, 2005 at 01:32 AM
On November 3, 2005, Xinhua News Agency re****ted that parazite eggs
were found in kimchi made in South Korea.
This is the first English-based re****t from Xinhua News Agency on
recent kimchi disputes between Seoul and Beijing.
Read the article in
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/03/content_3724513.htm
An outline of the article:
* The (South) Korea Food and Drug Administration
(KFDA) announced earlier Thursday that 16 products
out of 502 domestic kimchi brands tested were found
to contain roundworm eggs.
* Most of the kimchi im****ted from China were made in
factories set up by South Korean merchants in China.
* South Korea im****ted some 72,000 ton of kimchi from
China in 2004. The figures almost stands one-fourth
of the total production capacity of the sidedish by
South Korean local companies.
The Korea Food & Drug Administration page at
http://www.kfda.go.kr/cgi-bin/t4.cgi/eng/main.taf
did not mention the test results quoted by Xinhua.
