% O7 I8 L9 v6 l' `: o! I* D6 I由中国杭州中策橡胶有限公司(Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber)制造的这些轮胎缺少一层帮助加固轮胎、防止胎面分离的橡胶层——2000年，正是这个问题导致美国大规模召回凡世通轮胎(Firestone)。记者昨日未能联系到杭州中策的管理人员置评。 1 \ x6 z$ v( C$ n. y* \2 n 5 z ~: v* p( d: {# L' V# _2 _ ]3 [0 ^ v5 g4 I" m; n. N
By Geoff Dyer in Shanghai 0 g. {) G* u# D$ U7 |# k8 c2 D5 h
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China has impounded two shipments of food from the US on the grounds that the produce is unsafe and warned that procedures for monitoring American food imports should be tightened.% U; V1 D7 M% h. e1 C
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Government inspectors seized separate shipments of orange pulp and apricots from the US because they contained excessive bacteria and mould, China's food safety inspectorate said yesterday on its website. . S% v- [ v, m& c& t |* T. W, d! }/ W! N% D, K+ n
Coming on the back of a series of scandals in the US over the quality of imported goods from China, the announcement will be considered by many importers as a form of retaliation by the Chinese authorities. M8 H" O) x/ K. W! [% B - E) m# g; F, W: I1 i6 H$ h5 L, PThe statement comes one day after regulators in the US announced a recall of up to 450,000 tyres manufactured by a Chinese company because of a potentially dangerous safety problem. 2 b: p6 Y3 C# S) }: ?. B 1 n3 c: q; {* m" @! kChina's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said it had impounded the orange pulp in the eastern province of Shandong and the apricots were seized in Shenzhen. ) [+ O' T" z- T/ H . `: w6 y; \, g5 @; IThe shipments contained “excessive bacteria, mould and sulphur dioxide”, the agency said, but gave no details about when they were impounded or how big the shipments were., z$ N: r, s1 H2 J4 ]
2 W% ? A3 e8 Y: }( ]4 J Z) X/ gThe agency's statement said local departments had been advised to “strengthen quarantine and inspections on food imports from America”. Q1 }! r5 w, F1 d# e ?/ S
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An executive at a European trading company based in Shanghai said: “We cannot say anything for sure without seeing details about the shipments, but it certainly looks like a way of deflecting some of the attention away from China and its own quality problems.”4 j _) Z W4 D
4 z) I. y4 r# c$ B, \: tThe US government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Monday the recall of tyres sold by Foreign Tire Sales, a New Jersey distributor, which are used in vans, sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks./ |# s" {, ^3 u# N
t2 r; W; m2 v5 T# H8 |- [The tyres, made by a Chinese company called Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber, lacked a gum strip that helps strengthen the tyre and prevent tread separation – the problem that caused a massive recall of Firestone tyres in the US in 2000. Officials at Hangzhou Zhongce could not be reached for comment yesterday. 2 c" r4 t/ N n- h. n" j1 n2 t1 {3 @6 I) H" i6 R
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