Since the FDA is not doing its job, it is up to us to look after ourselves.
Don’t buy any food products one suspects comes from China or the Far East in general.
We the people can put a crimp in their food exports to us by leaving the products to rot on the local supermarket shelves/freezers.
I have not set foot in Chinese restaurant since this scandal broke and don’t plan to again, at least not for a long, long time. They also can go belly-up.
I agree, but how is one to know? You can’t protect yourself and your family with suspicion. We have a right to know what we are buying, food or otherwise. The congress critters need to understand we aren’t going to stand for this absurdity. It angers me to no end when I check a label or product, and see; Origin: USA or Imported. Well, duh, I didn’t think it came from Fairyland, thanks for the 411, Captain Obvious.
As long as I reasonably sure that a food product is actually from Japan (the Chinese apparently also fake those, so it pays to be careful), I am willing to buy it.
(I have to say with natto, though, it is kind of hard to distinguish its normal state from that of advanced decay. ;-)
The problem here is that American food suppliers buy from China so you may not know where your food ingredients are coming from. How many of us knew our dog and cat food had ingredients sent from China?
Unless we make the US companies print that some of their product ingredient is imported, we will never know.
Um, there's no guarantee that the food in any restaurant doesn't come from China.
Congress passed country of origin labeling in 2002 as a provision of a farm subsidy bill. Processed foods are excluded, as are foods sold by restaurants. The full implementation of the bill, by the way, was postponed twice by executive order (thank you, Mr. Bush), and only unprocessed seafood needs to be labeled as of this year.
Curiously -- or not so curiously if you read the full article posted -- the fresh meat provision, which should go into effect next year, if not postponed yet again, excludes poultry.
I can't imagine why. /sarc