The Public Relations Saga Continues

One step forward:

The government is to establish its first database on the inspection and quarantine of imports and exports to keep producers up to date with the latest safety requirements, the country's top quality control watchdog said yesterday.

Commodities in the database will fall into 154 categories under 14 major catalogs, such as animals and related products, plants and related products, food and food packaging, cosmetics, textiles, and chemical and mineral products, a statement from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said.

Two steps back:

China has returned 272 heart pacemakers imported from the United States after they failed quality inspections, China's top quality control agency announced on Monday.

Following the quality control issue resembles a tennis match. The US/Korea/Japan/Europe discovers a serious quality issue with a Chinese product and the Chinese government detains or rejects an [usually] American product. As long as the government treats this issue as a public relations problem the "Made in China" label will continue to symbolize substandard quality.