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It's Not Just Pet Food-(how chinese are killing us)
washington post ^ | April 23, 2007 | peter kovacs

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adulteration; china; chineseingredients; contamination; food; foodsafety; freetrade; mostfavorednation
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its all good profits are high i would just like to know where the elites are getting their chow from
1 posted on 04/23/2007 4:18:10 PM PDT by Flavius
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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.


2 posted on 04/23/2007 4:22:36 PM PDT by brownsfan (It's not a war on terror... it's a war with islam.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn; mom4kittys; blam; Salamander; Red Badger; upchuck; WakeUpAndVote; dirtboy; ...

Ping


3 posted on 04/23/2007 4:24:35 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: Flavius

... tick... tick... tick


4 posted on 04/23/2007 4:28:00 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Every American killed by a Mexican truck is a homicide committed by our leaders..)
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To: Flavius

That’s why they have food tasters. ;-D


5 posted on 04/23/2007 4:28:30 PM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: Flavius
Honest, honey... this is that poison Chinese dog food!
6 posted on 04/23/2007 4:28:57 PM PDT by Bender2 (A 'Good Yankee' comes down to Texas, then goes back north. A 'Damn Yankee' stays... Damn it!)
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To: Flavius

I’d like to know where this “dangerous” food is. Nothing I buy as food comes from China.


7 posted on 04/23/2007 4:31:13 PM PDT by swmobuffalo (The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
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To: Flavius

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?


8 posted on 04/23/2007 4:31:27 PM PDT by Riverine
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I’d like to know where this “dangerous” food is. Nothing I buy as food comes from China.

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!

9 posted on 04/23/2007 4:33:40 PM PDT by Omega Man II
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To: Bender2

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


10 posted on 04/23/2007 4:35:57 PM PDT by mom4kittys (If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
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To: Omega Man II

the fact that a drop of food is being imported to this country from china is a crime

thats all


11 posted on 04/23/2007 4:42:59 PM PDT by Flavius ("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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To: swmobuffalo

You know the source - country, company, and where that company procures its ingredents - of the ingredients in your bread, pasta, cereal and so forth ?


12 posted on 04/23/2007 4:44:09 PM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: cinives

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.


13 posted on 04/23/2007 4:54:08 PM PDT by RC2
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To: Flavius

Someone mentioned garlic powder on another thread. I checked mine. Yep, product of China!


14 posted on 04/23/2007 4:55:11 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: swmobuffalo

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.


15 posted on 04/23/2007 4:55:53 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Flavius; Arizona Carolyn; mom4kittys; blam; Salamander; Red Badger; upchuck; WakeUpAndVote; ...

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.


16 posted on 04/23/2007 4:57:37 PM PDT by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE)
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To: swmobuffalo

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.


17 posted on 04/23/2007 4:59:04 PM PDT by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE)
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To: mom4kittys

YIKES!


18 posted on 04/23/2007 5:01:45 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: Abigail Adams

i check everyone and i call companies now

if i find out they are lying i will sue


19 posted on 04/23/2007 5:03:00 PM PDT by Flavius ("Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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To: Flavius

Just do a google search of ingredients that come from China.

Amazing.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3001182&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.5.1

http://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/hznewasia/product-listNoqxuIETIQUi/Traditional-Ingredients-catalog-1.html

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


20 posted on 04/23/2007 5:06:29 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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