Friday, October 24, 2008

Japan's Nissin recalls 500,000 noodles over insecticide fears

A 67-year-old woman vomited and felt numbness on her tongue after eating Nissin's Cup Noodle this week in the Tokyo suburb of Fujisawa, the city's health office said late Thursday.
The product was made at a Nissin factory in Japan. A series of previous scares have involved food imported from China.
The health office said on inspecting the Cup Noodle they had discovered paradichlorobenzene, the key chemical in bug repellent, but no puncture or other abnormality in the cup.
Nissin was voluntarily recalling around 500,000 cups made on the same factory line the same day, a company spokesman said.
They were sold at supermarkets in Tokyo and neighbouring areas with most of them already gone from store shelves, he said.
"We apologise for causing trouble to Cup Noodle lovers," Nissin president Susumu Nakagawa told reporters late Thursday.
However, he denied the possibility of contamination at the factory, saying it had never used or stored the insecticide and had seven security cameras watching manufacturing lines.
"It is unthinkable that the contamination occurred at our production lines," he said.
The noodles scare spread Friday as another company, Myojo Foods Co. of Tokyo, said it found instant noodles laced with paradichlorobenzene and naphthol, also used as bug repellent.
A man "poured in hot water and noticed chemical smells," said a health official in Yososuka, southwest of Tokyo. The man was unhurt as he did not eat the noodles.
Nissin, based in the western Japan city of Osaka, created instant ramen noodles as Japan's economy grew rapidly after World War II. Aimed at busy people on the go, it has since become a multibillion-dollar industry.
Japan has been on alert after a series of health scares involving food, mostly made in China.
Earlier this month one woman fell sick after eating frozen green beans imported from China, which were found to contain thousands of times the permissible level of pesticide residue.


SHIT!!!!! And I ate that a couple of days ago... haiz... My favourite cup noodle...

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

I REALLY REALLY APOLOGIZE FOR SUCH A DAMN LONG ABSENCE OF BLOGGING.

Reasons being:
1) After Hong Kong, I had to study lots of stuffs cause i missed one week lessons..
2) I have like 18 essays to complete... and up to date, I only have finished 2 of them. yea i'm slow... haha...
3) So many activities going on.... haha.. gotta work like hell cause i spent like 1++k in Hong Kong
hahaha...

and i have just spent 120 bucks on ONE STUPID BOOK.. my auditing book.. sobsob......
no money!!!!!!!! haha ..

Just sent my stupid laptop for repair cause it's not listening to me... irritating.. haiz..

what else?? ...hmm .. exams coming... study like siao again.. even though it's mock exam..

haiz.. i will try uploading the photos.. but no gurantee.. haha.. wait until my lappy comes back.
i wanna watch movies!!!!!!!!!!!

argh.. no time no life.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

2 more days to HONG KONG!!!! hahahhaa...

busy until no time pack my stuff too... eh~~... also nothing to pack. empty luggage go there!! hehehe....

think since last year didn't go Hk le... haha .. miss there thou...

anyway, there are so many movies i wanna watch!!!!!!!! but no time.. =(=( ..

i wanna watch Connected, Burn After Reading, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, My best Friend's Girl..

they are all so nice movies.. !!!!

haiz.. tink come back from hk also nt time too.. cause gotta start studying for mocks.. argh!!! ...


well, over the weekend i went for tuition ... cause examsare coming so slotted more tuitions to prepare them ... and doing my assignments diligently although no need to submit...

yesterday went to cut hair at parkway... cut fringe... damn ugly..

went to change money... went to punggol collect stuff then go eat dinner at don's uncle shop along hougang... it wasn't planned.. just happened to see him ... so just ate there with mr. bf..

baby bought me another pretty necklace!!! hehehehe... sweets... =D...

his classes started le ... and can see he's damn shag... haiz...


well, as i'm going to be away for a week.... here's a picture to look at me if you miss me .. heheheh.. Note: It's before my fringe got cut. damn.. hahaha...


BYEBYE!!! =)