TOKYO, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- A team of Chinese experts met with their Japanese counterparts over a food poisoning case involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings Sunday afternoon at the Japanese Cabinet Office.

    During the talks, experts from the two sides conducted a candid exchange of views over the ongoing investigation into the incident and agreed to continue discussions on Monday, the Chinese team told Xinhua.

    Japanese media said the talks will concentrate on the question of how the pesticide substance called methamidophos got into the food products by a mysteriously huge amount since the Chinese producer, the Tian Yang Food Plant in north China's Hebei Province, never used such material in its factory.

    The two sides have agreed to refrain from making any subjective conclusion before a thorough and full investigation, Chinese embassy officials said.

    The five-member Chinese team, made up of officials and experts from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), the Commerce Ministry, the Certification and Accreditation Administration, the Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, and Heibei provincial quality watchdog, arrived in Tokyo earlier in the afternoon.

    Li Chunfeng, vice director of the Import and Export Food Safety Bureau of the AQSIQ and head of the team, has pledged to have close cooperation with the Japanese side for an objective and fair outcome.

    The Japanese side consists of experts and officials of the Cabinet Office, the National Police Agency, the Foreign Ministry, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry and the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry. 

Chinese experts in Tokyo to probe dumpling case

    TOKYO, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese experts team arrived here Sunday afternoon to jointly investigate into a case of food poisoning involving Chinese-made frozen dumplings with their Japanese counterparts.

    The team is scheduled to have a meeting with the Japanese side later in the afternoon. Full story

No pesticide detected in samples of Chinese dumplings exported to Japan

    SHIJIAZHUANG, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Tests on Chinese-made dumplings suspected of causing a food poisoning outbreak in Japan passed a local inspection, a quarantine chief said on Saturday.

    The dumplings were suspected to contain methamidophos. Since 2004, China had banned the use of the pesticide substance on all fruit and vegetable crops. Full story

China says no harmful chemicals found in exported dumplings to Japan

    BEIJING, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- No harmful chemicals were found in Chinese dumpling exports involved in a food poisoning incident in Japan, said China's quality watchdog on Thursday.

    The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said it conducted tests on the samples of the two batches of dumplings causing poisoning Japan on Thursday morning and no trace of pesticide remains were found.  Full story