Posted on 04/23/2007 4:18:06 PM PDT by Flavius
Lost amid the anxiety surrounding the tainted U.S. pet food supply is this sobering reality: It's not just pet owners who should be worried. The uncontrolled distribution of low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave threat to public health worldwide.
Essential ingredients, such as vitamins used in many packaged foods, arrive at U.S. ports from China and, as recent news reports have underscored, are shipped without inspection to food and beverage distributors and manufacturers. Although they are used in relatively small quantities, these ingredients carry enormous risks for American consumers. One pound of tainted wheat gluten could, if undetected, contaminate as much as a thousand pounds of food
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“its all good profits are high i would just like to know where the elites are getting their chow from”
Only the elites in the food business. There is no honor among theives. The elites in the food business would gladly poison other elites for profit.
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That’s why they have food tasters. ;-D
I’d like to know where this “dangerous” food is. Nothing I buy as food comes from China.
I trust very few things made in China. A good example would be baby wipes made there. Who know what the heck’s really in the lotion? Anybody think the Chinese care about toxicity in their products? Especially in their non-foreign owned factories?
I think you're missing the point here. The Chinese crap is being imported as INGREDIENTS to food processed in the USA. So you get a nice "MADE IN USA" label on the product, even though key ingredients come from China!
cute commercial.
This is my very favorite commercial right now. I absolutely love it!
http://www.armstrong.com/resflram/na/home/en/us/tv-ads-dog.html?intcid=armtvadhome
the fact that a drop of food is being imported to this country from china is a crime
thats all
You know the source - country, company, and where that company procures its ingredents - of the ingredients in your bread, pasta, cereal and so forth ?
No....you don’t know....not any more. Only products that tell you are clothes. It may have an American companies name on it but if it’s made in China, it’s on the label. Try looking for good work boots or even western boots. Most are made in China now and they do not hold up. I refuse to buy them. It costs me more for my western boots but well worth it when they are made in the states.
Someone mentioned garlic powder on another thread. I checked mine. Yep, product of China!
At least that’s what you think. Do you eat bread? Cereal? It’s possible that some of the tainted wheat gluten could be part of your breakfast. It won’t show up on the label that this gluten came from China. It will only say that part of the ingredients of your bread or cereal includes gluten. No word on where it’s from.
This pet food scare might be all the warning we are going to get.The government may not want to allow out information about a problem from that source in the people food supply, don’t want to “panic” the population. The universities, relying on government funds, at least in part, will not jeopardize those funds. The government will quietly, diplomatically, try to convince the Chinese to allow American inspectors in the Chinese food producers. IF China cooperates, great, if not, well more diplomacy, but people dying of kidney failure at higher than normal rates, maybe much higher, is something that we may only begin to learn by rumor and individual physicians’ observations.
Unless you buy everything fresh and unpackaged and from the farm, you don’t know that. If there are “added ingredients” of any sort, you don’t know.
YIKES!
i check everyone and i call companies now
if i find out they are lying i will sue
Just do a google search of ingredients that come from China.
Amazing.
http://www.21food.com/offerdetail/67543/Supply—Natural-Herbal-Ingredients.html
http://www.chinalocator.com/cl/Company/CompanyDisp.asp?MemID=10595
http://www.elegantnutri.com/products/food-additives-catalog-1.html
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