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BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States will hold five days of talks in Beijing this month over Chinese seafood exports detained for harmful residues, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.

Chinese products ranging from toys and tires to medicines and toothpastes have been reeling from a global confidence crisis in past months after countries including the U.S. banned or recalled them for being tainted or substandard.

The U.S. Food and Drug Agency said on June 28 that their inspectors continued to find certain banned veterinary drugs and food additives in Chinese farm-raised catfish, basa, shrimp, dace and eel.

It said such Chinese exports would not be allowed to enter the country until suppliers could prove they are free from the substances, which posed no immediate public health threat because of their low levels but could be a problem in the long run.

FDA officials would talk with their Chinese counterparts for five days from July 31 to settle the dispute, Xinhua quoted Li Yuanping, an official with the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), as saying.
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Source: Reuters