Japan and China to hold talks over food-poisoning outbreak

A group of Chinese experts held a meeting with their Japanese counterparts Sunday over a food-poisoning outbreak allegedly triggered by Chinese-made frozen meat dumplings. The five-member team from China is led by Li Chunfeng, vice director of the Import and Export Food Safety Bureau in the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, the national quality control bureau.
At the outset of the meeting, Shigeru Hotta, senior official in the Cabinet Office, said, "We need to bring the issue under control immediately as it has become a big public concern in Japan. I hope the two countries will jointly work to clarify the cause." The first meeting concluded "as an opportunity for information sharing between the two sides," Masaki Ichikawa, another official in the Cabinet Office, told reporters. "We'll continue the meeting tomorrow and later."