Japan store sells Chinese beans with 34,000 times permitted dose of insecticide

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China is already reeling with major food scandals and a new recall is bound to cause further damage in marketing their food products overseas.

Ito-Yokado supermarkets removed tainted Chinese beans from its shelves after one of its customers was briefly hospitalized with vomiting and a numb mouth after she ate the green beans.

The beans marketed by Nicherei Foods issued an apology and asked the customers to return the product back to the stores. The Chinese manufacturer of the products, Yantai Beihai Foodstuff Co., also took actions by halting shipments of all of its products.

The Japanese health ministry tested the tainted beans and found 34,000 times the permitted level of dichlorvos, a highly toxic insecticide.

China was recently involved in a major scare when its milk was tainted with industrial chemical melamine killed four babies and thousands became ill. It produced recalls within the country and other Asian countries.

There was another Chinese food recall early this year in Japan, when several became ill after they ate Chinese-made dumplings containing insecticide.

Prime Minister Taro Aso told reporters that China government must take more preventive measures to correct these problems.

Naturally they have to conduct inspections, but we also need to do inspections properly, so I discussed that with the agriculture minister as well as the health minister.

The Chinese government has to revamp its entire food industry and enforce strict guidelines for the producers.