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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