BEIJING (AP) — China and the United States will meet at the end of July to discuss the safety of China's seafood exports, an official said Wednesday, while a Chinese spokeswoman said tires that were the subject of a huge U.S. recall were found to meet American safety standards.


The five-day meeting between teams from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Chinese food safety officials was scheduled to begin July 31 in Beijing, said Li Yuanping, who is in charge of the safety of import and export products at the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

 

China took about 40 reporters to the
processing facility of the Huiyuan Beverage
& Food Group in the suburbs of Beijing.

Discussions are expected to help smooth over tensions triggered last month after the FDA announced that it would detain Chinese catfish, basa and dace, as well as shrimp and eel after repeated testing turned up contamination with drugs that have not been approved in the United States for use in farmed seafood.