INTERVIEW-US says China trying to hit back on safety woes
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - China is hunting for problems in U.S. goods instead of working to improve the shaky safety record of its own exports, a senior Bush administration official complained after a visit to Beijing. Agriculture Department Undersecretary Mark Keenum, who was in China last week for talks on trade and discoveries of unsafe Chinese exports, heard Chinese reports about unsafe and substandard U.S. products ranging from fishmeal to seafood to homing pigeons. "Rather than having constructive dialogue, it was very frustrating to sit there and listen to how bad our products are," Keenum said in an interview. Senior Chinese officials will be in Washington next week, he said, for an annual bilateral meeting on food safety.
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