BEIJING - Firing back over product safety fears, China's Health Ministry accused foreign media Friday of exaggerating the country's food purity problems, while a Chinese tire maker at the center of a huge U.S. recall accused the American importer of distortions.
While China faces "severe challenges" in ensuring food safety, foreign media are playing up the problems and have ulterior motives, Health Ministry spokesman Mao Qun'an told a news conference.
"The question of food safety is a problem the whole world faces," Mao said.
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The Union, N.J.-based company has been sued by the families of two men killed when their van crashed in Pennsylvania in August 2006. The lawsuit says the van had tires made by China's Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co.
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