date:Oct 23, 2012
ch of berries. The agencies' strawberry statement did notidentify the source country, although a spokesperson for theFederal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety told FoodProduction Daily that the berries all came from the same batchimported from China and a news report claimed the strawberrieswere grown, harvested and frozen in Qufu, the birthplace ofConfucius, in Shandong Province.
Chinese food exports to Europe, according to the news magazine DerSpiegel, nearly doubled between 2005