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Unfortunately there is a lot of food that comes from China, so even in the US, one needs to be vigilante and check the packaging. For instance, I got a can of Liberty Strawberries. You would think a company called Liberty would get their berries from American farmers, but no the content was from China.

Tainted foods in China is a big problems because some shady companies are willing to provide cheap substandard materials as well as poor safety inspections in the pursuit of profits. The Chinese government should step up it's campaign to eradicate this problem.
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This is one of many things that makes me very thankful to be living in the United States of America. Sure, we have tainted foods every once in awhile. We had a some bad spinach, beef, and fresh fruit drinks here in California not too long ago. But, formaldehyde? Come on, that's terrible. And, when something like this happens in the U.S. the government makes it known and does their best to make sure it doesn't happen again. We're not perfect here, but we sure have much to be thankful when it comes to our food quality.

Don't eat dumplings at the Olympics...

Japan imports more food from China than the United States does. Although there are disputes on the number of people who have become sick, with some sources attributing 500 cases of food poisoning to the tainted Chinese food. Officials had tried to reassure people, but concerns over food safety turned into near hysteria and many retailers responded by pulling all Chinese-made processed foods from their grocery or department store shelves.

Although pesticides have only been found in dumplings produced by the Tianyang Food Processing in Hebei Province, outside Beijing, Japanese food processing companies had issued recalls for at least 59 meat products from that company as of Friday, according to reports. Observers say this incident could seriously damage relations between China and Japan, which imports $56.7 billion of food annually from China.

According to reports, the Chinese factory where the pesticide-laden dumplings exported to Japan were made was the same factory where dumplings contaminated by suspected organophosphorus were earlier made. Health problems caused from eating the tainted food ranged from vomiting to a brief coma for a 5-year-old girl.

As Nguyen Van Ninh needles his chopsticks through a steaming bowl of Vietnam's famous noodle soup, he knows it could be spiked with formaldehyde. But the thought of slurping up the same chemical used to preserve corpses isn't enough to deter him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070617/ap_on_re_as/asia_tainted_foods