China says safety of exports guaranteed

They don't specify what the guarantee is though. Guaranteed to kill you? Or just make you sick? I just about puked after reading the following story by AP writer Audra Ang:

"Thursday, state media said Beijing police raided a village where live pigs were force-fed wastewater to boost their weight before slaughter, underscoring the country's chronic food safety problems.

Plastic pipes had been forced down the pigs' throats and villagers had pumped each 220-pound pig with 44 pounds of wastewater, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

Paperwork showed the pigs were headed for one of Beijing's main slaughterhouses and stamps on their ears indicated that they already had been through quarantine and inspection, the paper said. Suspects escaped during Wednesday's raid and no arrests were made, it said.

The case underscored China's chaotic food safety situation, where manufacturers and distributors often use unapproved additives, falsify expiration dates or find other methods of cutting corners to eke out small profits.

Earlier this week, inspectors announced they had closed 180 food factories nationwide in the first half of this year and seized tons of candy, pickles, crackers and seafood tainted with formaldehyde, illegal dyes and industrial wax."

ATTENTION WAL-MART SHOPPERS. WE'VE GOT A SPECIAL ON PICKLED PIGS FEET AND CANDIED SOW EARS FLOWN IN FRESH FROM COMMUNIST RED CHINA. GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOUR MOUTH FOAM AND YOUR BOWELS MOVE. DON'T FORGET TO GRAB A CORN DOG FOR THE LONG CHECKOUT LINE. BETCHA CAN'T EAT JUST ONE (WITHOUT GETTING SICK).