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14% truck tyre tubes fail safety tests

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-07-23 10:45

China's top quality control watchdog announced that 14.3 percent of the
local-made truck tyre tubes failed safety tests in its latest quality
check-up.

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine said it checked 51 truck tyres and tyre tubes produced by 30
companies in nine provincial-level regions including Liaoning, Jiangsu,
Zhejiang and Shanghai.

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Used tires are seen at a recycling station in Xiangfan, Hubei Province
July 20, 2007.?The top quality control watchdog announced that 14.3% of
the local-made truck tyre tubes failed safety tests in its latest quality
check-up. [AP]

The watchdog said 85.7 percent of the 14 tyre tubes, and all the 37 tyres
were up to standards.

The tensile strength of some tyre tubes did not meet standard and were
inclinable to burst when the trucks run on roads, said the
administration. It added some tubes valves were not strong enough adhered
to the tubes.

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine also announced that six percent of liquors were not up to
standards.

The proportion of total ester and ethyl hexanoate in some of the 100
liquors produced by 95 firms in eight provinces did not meet standard, it
said.

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It said 2.5 percent of 120 kinds of fruit and vegetable juices and
beverages produced by 110 companies in cities of Beijing and Shanghai and
ten provinces failed safety standard. They were found containing
excessive saccharomyces cerevisiae and saccharin sodium salt and with
problematic labeling.

The quality control watchdog added that all of the tyre tubes, liquors
and fruit and vegetable juices and beverages were sold domestically and
were not exported abroad.

The administration has ordered local branches to urge the problematic
firms to finish the improvement of products quality during a given period
of time.

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