Products Not Contaminated By Sodium Nitrite, Say Chinese Beverage Firms
Posted on: Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 12:00 CDT
Chinese alcoholic beverage firms have said that in contrary to certain internet reports their products do not contain sodium nitrite, a cancer-causing material.
According to Xinhua Finance News, certain market reports maintained that China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) recently found sodium nitrite in the products of four alcoholic beverage producers: Kweichow Moutai, Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine, Tsingtao Brewery and COFCO Huaxia Greatwall Wine.
On its part, Tsingtao Brewery has said that AQSIQ has not inspected its products in recent times and that even in the past few years sodium nitrite was never found in any internal tests or checks conducted by food safety regulators.
Kweichow Moutai and Yantai Changyu Pioneer Wine have also denied these rumors as baseless, Reuters said.
Xinhua Finance News has quoted Tsingtao Brewery as saying: "Sodium nitrite is not produced during the beer production process, and it is also impossible for the company to add the material into the product."
This rumor is doing the rounds at a time when China's image has already taken a beating due to the tainted infant milk powder scandal which has so far claimed the lives of four babies and sickened 54,000.
Source: Datamonitor
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