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<FONT color=#000000 size=3>By Alan Harman</FONT>
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executive Boa Zhong Zhang pleads guilty to conspiracy to smuggle goods into the
<PLACE w:st=""><COUNTRY-REGION w:st="">United States</COUNTRY-REGION></PLACE> by
using false statements and to introducing adulterated foods into interstate
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color=#000000 size=3> The Seattle Times reports the plea agreement
in U.S. District Court in Seattle means the vice president of Changge Jixiang
Bee Products Ltd. in Henan, China, faces up to five years in prison and a
$250,000 fine when he is sentenced on Nov. 30.</FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
color=#000000 size=3> Still facing trial are Chung Po Liu of
Bellevue, 68, owner of Rainier Cascade and Evergreen Produce, and Yong Xiang
Yan, 60, board chairman of the Chinese honey company.</FONT></P><FONT
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Investigators say they mislabeled honey containing three antibiotics as coming
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color=#000000 size=3> A U.S. Department of Justice statement says
Boa Zhong Zhang was accused of rerouting 21 shipments of Chinese honey worth
$1.6 million to avoid $3.3 million in punitive antidumping tariffs. The honey
was shipped from China to the Philippines or Thailand, where it was relabeled
and sent on to the U.S.</FONT></P>
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have been contaminated with ciproflaxin -- an antibiotic sometimes sold under
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w:st="">U.S.</COUNTRY-REGION></PLACE> government, but the public who is unaware
of the scheme and unwittingly purchases the products,” U.S. Immigration and
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