'Made in China' now a warning label, says US

news.com.au ^ | 6/29/2007

[bruinbirdman]

THE US has added farm-raised fish and shrimp to a growing list of Red Chinese products deemed unsafe for US consumers.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it would block the import of farmed Communist Chinese seafood until importers could prove the shipments were free of unsafe contaminants.

The move comes just days after politicians urged a recall of up to 450,000 Red Chinese tyres because of safety defects and weeks after thousands of cats and dogs died because of tainted Communist Chinese pet food.

Dangerous toys, fake drugs, toxin-coated cosmetics, illicit pesticide-laden mushrooms, errant fireworks, tainted toothpaste and other Red Chinese products have led to recalls and bans and potentially more stringent import and food safety laws.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Member of Congress” should also be a warning label!!

[Pinkbell]

Duncan Hunter is the only Presidential candidate willing to stand up to the chimcoms on trade.

Our family does not purchase any food, drink, or things that go in the mouth like toothpaste and straws from China. We are even more cautious since the recent incidents.

[mefistofelerevised]

Haven’t heard it called ‘red China’ in a long time. When I was in grammer school China didn’t exist in public education. Now all the globalist gang love them. About time the fed caused some waves.

[familyop]

Duncan Hunter voted against permanent normal trade relations with China. (May 2000) [under "Foreign Policy]--not against all trade with China but against the favored trade status that it has.

[43north]

Red China is an ongoing criminal enterprise.

[Judges Gone Wild]

Looks like I’m taking Shrimp in Lobster Sauce out of my diet.

[DB]

How do you know that?

[Gorzaloon]

One of the banned agents, fluoroquinolones, is approved for use in China.

The FDA said its use "may increase antibiotic resistance to this critically important class of antibiotics".

Two other contaminants, the antimicrobials nitrofuran and malachite green, have been shown to be carcinogenic with long-term exposure in lab animals and are also banned in China.

I am disgusted beyond words. This is just a slow version of Chemical Warfare.

[don-o]

Even before new questions were raised this year about how well China enforces food safety rules, some growers were also pressing the U.S. government to require country-of-origin stickers on all apples. "We're facing a threat that we've never faced before in terms of their ability to come in and essentially replace every apple that we produce in this country numerically and at a much lower cost," said John Rice, a seventh-generation grower whose grandfather made money in the Depression era by gathering apples from area growers and shipping them to England.

[Loyal Buckeye]

The market will solve this problem. Americans will not buy unsafe products. If the Chinese want to sell, they need to change their ways.

[Thermalseeker]

Made in China. Now it's a warning label

A bumper sticker ripe for the makin'.....

[Dick Bachert]

(And before someone asks, I will post this until the idiots in government alter this insane and now dangerous UNILATERAL trade policy with China and the fools in the multinationals STOP exporting the production of EVERYTHING to China and bring those jobs home. As you think about that, recall that in ancient times, the Romans and others would catapult disease-riddled corpses over the walls of cities they besieged to sicken and kill the enemy. The Chinese know that history even if we obviously have forgotten it. Get my drift there? )

On a recent visit to China, a friend spotted this ad in a Beijing newspaper. He sent me the photo with a translation of the ad copy.

BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR AND JOIN CHINA’S NEW MONIED ELITE!

Yes, you can now join the millions of happy and prosperous Chinese citizens taking advantage of the growing numbers of American and Western multinational corporations “outsourcing” their production to the hard-working and industrious people of China. This outsourcing has now spread to their food supplies and ingestible items. Since these firms pay us for gross weight – and this new weight will be pretty gross – and the stupid American government only spot-checks imported items in these categories (they just got lucky on the anti-freeze thing), it has opened an entirely new opportunity which our beloved Chairman is offering to any Chinese citizen willing to do a little of what the foolish Americans call “grunt work.”

Installing one of these state-of-the-art food additive production facilities behind YOUR hovel is as simple as clipping the coupon below and sending it to the address shown. Your production plant will be shipped to you in 4 to 6 weeks. Supplies are limited so don’t fart around. ACT NOW!!

These silly Americans have an expression we have “borrowed” and modified to describe this new and exciting venture: “Don’t give me any s**t.”

Our motto will be “We won’t GIVE you any s**t. But we’ll SELL it to you fools at a really great price.”

AND LOOK FOR A NEW DROP-DEAD MONEY-MAKER COMING SOON. SOYLENT YELLOW PROMISES TO BE BIG!!

[Bean Counter]

Like this is something new!

Let’s see a show of hands: How many of you think that the Chinese just started adulterating products that they send to the US??

That’s right boys and girls.....they have been doing things like this for decades. We just didn’t start caring until they targeted our pets; now we are willing to pay attention and realize that we were the targets all along...

[LadyPilgrim]

"""Looks like I’m taking Shrimp in Lobster Sauce out of my diet.""

I love shrimp and lobster sauce!!! YUM!!! ;-)

But you don't have to give it up. ;-)

Try American seafood instead....

http://www.wildamericanshrimp.com/main.html

[PissAndVinegar]

“Americans will not buy unsafe products.”

I totally disagree, people do all sorts of things to save a buck, including buying unsafe products.

After market car parts, Chinese tires, El-Cheapo Baby seat, food from Big lots, balloon ‘yoyos’, Tylenol (huge liver killer), yugos, etc....

Americans buy unsafe stuff all the time, sometimes cause they are being cheap, other times because they can’t afford the safety ‘luxuries’. Compare a Geo Metro to a VW’s saftey features for a prime example.

Many times the market will balance it out but how many people and/or pets have to die before everyone knows NOT to buy chinese stuff?

[GingisK]

Americans will not buy unsafe products.

But they surely will buy products of rock-bottom quality. That is how we got here in the first place. "Made in China" has always been a warning label for me. I guess I've always been "ahead of the curve".

[pissant]

I boycotted China years ago. Giving a dime to a communist makes no sense.

[RockinRight]

There are certain things you just can’t find made anywhere but China anymore. Certain electronics, for example. Although with electronics you can search hard enough and find Japanese, Korean, or Malaysian.

[GingisK]

There are certain things you just can’t find made anywhere but China anymore....

This steams me, really badly. It makes me want to puke. I can't tell you how depressed this loss of US manufacturing makes me.