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Fun facts about China supply chains |
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Written by Stumo
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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They sell you what they want, and delivery what they've got.
Whether the company is owned by Chinese or Americans.
Records? Sure. Even audited.
Take the recent
case of heparin from China which killed and injured American patients.
The American company that owns the Chinese supply company says they have everything in place to track the supplies to their Chinese subsidiary, and then to America:
“We have a collection chain in place, and we stick with that,”
said David Strunce, the president of Scientific Protein Laboratories,
an American company that owns a majority of Changzhou SPL. He declined
repeated requests from The New York Times to identify those smaller
suppliers, saying it was proprietary information.
But interviews with dozens of heparin producers and traders in several
Chinese provinces, as well as a visit to a village near here dominated
by tiny family workshops that process crude heparin from pig
intestines, show the difficulties confronting investigators as they
seek to trace the supply chain. The picture that emerges is of a chain
more complex, and less orderly, than the one Mr. Strunce laid out.
Oh. And there's a new pesticide-laced dumpling case in
Japan that sickened at least 10 people. The Chinese government
said there was "no evidence" that the comtamination occurred in
China. Consider this defensive public statement.
“We conclude that the dumpling poisoning incident in Japan is an
individual contrived case instead of a food-safety case resulting from
pesticide residues,” Wei Chuanzhong, vice minister of China’s food
safety agency, said Thursday in Beijing.
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