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BIZCHINA / Biz Media Digest
Consumer goods: 99.5%?moon cakes safe
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-05 11:15
Latest quality checkups show 99.5 percent of China's moon cakes are up to
scratch, the nation's top quality watchdog said on Tuesday.
Moon cakes are special snacks Chinese people eat at the traditional
Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 in the lunar calendar each year. The
festival falls on September 25 this year.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and
Quarantine (AQSIQ) said it has checked a total 425 types of moon cakes
made by 378 firms in 29 Chinese provinces.
Those that failed safety tests were found either with excessive
microorganisms and food additives, or with problematic labeling, AQSIQ
said.
AQSIQ added it has ordered local branches to dispose the unsafe moon
cakes and their manufacturers to fix the problems in a fixed period of
time.
The top quality watchdog will continue to strengthen its clampdown on
excessive coliform and food additives in the moon cakes in the run-up to
the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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