[PBRSTREETGANG]

Good.

[Constitution Day]

BTTT

[manic4organic]

Good start. Now do it with all other Chinese junk.

[GFritsch]

They shouldn't be detaining they should be rejecting and reshipping all this inedible garbage that China has been shipping that makes all people unaccustomed to their diseases sick!

Next, all goods manufactured in China should be rejected and shipped back. Wal-Mart and Target will go out of business.

[silverleaf]

Do not serve fish on melamine - fish already full of melamine

[Orange1998]

You got to be kidding. You know how many people this effects. I think most of the American consumption of farm raised shrimp and catfish comes from overseas.

[Jaysun]

They’re going to hold seafood from China at US ports of entry until the Chinese can prove that it’s safe. Yummy.

[Wolfie]

The FDA’s in for a big State Dept. smackdown.

[LikeLight]

Great - this poison has got to be stopped - we cannot rely on third world sanitation and ethics in creating our food supply...

[technomage]

WASHINGTON — Imports of five species of farmed Chinese seafood will be detained until they can be shown free of potentially dangerous antibiotics, U.S. government health officials said Thursday.

The Food and Drug Administration said it would detain the catfish, basa, shrimp, dace and eel after repeated testing has turned up contamination with drugs unapproved in the United States for use in farmed seafood.

The announcement was only the latest in an expanding series of problems with imported Chinese products that seemingly permeate U.S. society, from its playrooms to its prisons.

Beyond the fish, federal regulators have warned consumers in recent weeks about lead paint in toy trains, defective tires and toothpaste made with diethylene glycol, a toxic ingredient more commonly found in antifreeze. All the products were imported from China.

China, meanwhile, insisted Thursday that the safety of its products was "guaranteed," making a rare direct comment on spreading international fears over tainted and adulterated exports.

[Kevmo]

I sure hope Duncan Hunter gets some traction from all of these crazy China fleece-trading deals. He’s the only presidential candidate in the race with a focus on how this kind of thing affects normal Americans.

[sweetiepiezer]

peiping

[Froufrou]

REASON FOR
ALERT: There has been an extensive commercialization and an increased
consumption rate of aquaculture seafood products. As this
industry grows, the use of unapproved new animal drugs and the
misuse of approved new animal drugs in seafood raised through
aquaculture also grows. The use of unapproved new animal drugs
will have an impact on the safety of aquaculture products for
consumers.

GUIDANCE: Districts may detain without physical examination the products
from the firms identified on the attachment to this alert.

For questions or issues concerning science, science policy,
analysis, preparation, or analytical methodology, contact the
Division of Field Science at (301) 827-7605.

http://www.fda.gov/ora/fiars/ora_import_ia16124.html

[Badeye]

This is starting to get really ugly with Chinese made products across the board.

[billbears]

Great. Thanks FDA for raising the prices at my local fish restaurant. I can’t tell you from the bottom of my heart how much I look forward to more regulation from the federal government to ‘protect’ me.

[indcons]

Ping for some good (but overdue) news

[Vision]

Maybe shrimp will get their taste back now. Ever notice how shrimp doesn’t taste as good as it used to 10-15 years ago?

[texastoo]

We need to thank Lou Dobbs for this. He has been harping on it for weeks and weeks.

[mom4kittys]

[mom4kittys]

AWESOME NEWS!!!!