Reporting on Tainted Goods a Sickness, Chinese Official Says

Forget the fact that most of the junk coming out of the Communist country seems to be tainted. We must avoid mentioning it, as it may be a sign of illness, and well, they're just a wee bit sensitive to all the bad publicity.

What an idiot.

Hyping safety problem is a sickness, China says

BEIJING, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Hyping China's food and product safety problem is a sickness in itself, the country's new health minister said on Wednesday, a day after Mattel announced a third global recall of Chinese-made toys.

A series of scandals involving sub-standard Chinese exports ranging from pet food, fish and toothpaste to toys has heaped pressure on Beijing to clean up its manufacturing sector.

In the latest incident, the world's leading toymaker, Mattel Inc, said it would take back more than 800,000 units of Fisher-Price models and Barbie brand playsets because of "impermissible" levels of lead.

China's government insists the problem is a limited one, that the huge majority of its exports are up to standard and that the Western media in particular have been irresponsible in their reporting on the issue, intentionally fanning the flames.

"I must remind some friends that we are certainly extremely sensitive towards this problem, but over-sensitivity caused by only seeing part of the picture, in medical terms, is called an allergy," Health Minister Chen Zhu said.

"I want to tell everyone that they can have confidence in the quality of Chinese products and food safety," he said in his first major news conference since taking the post in late June.

China was ready to work with the international community to tackle the issue, added Chen, a Paris-trained scientist who unusually is not a member of the ruling Communist Party.

"I also want to explicitly say that we support media supervision over health work."

This moron ought to realize media is the least of their problems.

When your economy goes down the tubes, who will be to blame?