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Posted on 10/17/2008 1:11:04 AM PDT by nickcarraway
In China, tasteless and colorless melamine has been part of the food chain for a long time. Its addition to Sanlu’s milk powder has now created a global panic over contaminated Chinese foodstuffs.
And this was not the first time.
In May last year, companies in China’s Jiangsu and Shandong provinces added melamine to wheat protein and barley protein powder, which caused thousands of pets in the US, Canada and other countries to fall ill or die.
More than 60 million pet food products were recalled. Feed for 20 million chickens, hundreds of thousands of cultivated fish and thousands of pigs was also contaminated with melamine.
The immediate reaction by the Chinese authorities to the allegations of poisonous animal food was strong denial, and it was only when the US insisted that it be involved and sent representatives to China to take samples that the scandal was exposed.
So what did the Chinese authorities learn from that incident? Nothing.
In the most recent crisis, local governments continued to offer denials even after New Zealand company Fonterra Co-operative Group used diplomatic channels to put pressure directly on the Chinese government. It is well-known within the Chinese industry that melamine is added to milk powder, vegetable proteins, processed food products and animal feed. The government knows it and tolerates it.
Melamine is one of many harmful additives, and even if the melamine problem were eliminated, other hazardous substances could be added to products.
On Wednesday, frozen green beans imported from China to Japan were found to contain 34,500 times the amount of pesticides allowed in Japan. The government immediately ordered a recall.
There is no end to all the problems with Chinese food products.
Importing countries must pressure China and demand that it meet its responsibilities by strengthening procedures to manage, inspect and ban contaminated food products and thus control the export of toxic food.
Taiwan’s Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection and the Department of Health should meet their control responsibilities and implement stricter sampling of raw materials imported finished or semi-finished.
The government should amend the Commodity Labeling Act (商品標示法) to require that, in addition to listing manufacturing country, contents and nutritional value, labels also show the production process at the place of origin for raw materials to that consumers can make an informed choice as to the safety of a specific product.
Although China’s Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Yang Yi (楊毅) said China would handle the milk powder incident satisfactorily and demanded that Duqing Co in Shandong send representatives to Taiwan to investigate its export of dairy creamer here, he has kept mum on the issue of compensation to the victims, which displays a total lack of sincerity.
The milk powder scandal has had a serious economic impact on the companies involved as well as public health in Taiwan.
The Taiwanese government and private sectors must demand compensation from the Chinese government and manufacturers.
If China does not provide an adequate response to compensation demands in a timely manner, Chinese products should be boycotted and people should take to the streets to protest when Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yunlin (陳雲林) visits Taipei.
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Chinese food and junk should be banned from import in this country. If an American company tried to pull what the Chinese get away with, it would be shut down.
I bought a pant set on sale from a reputable company. I did not look at the “made in” tag. Wore it to a wedding. Started to get itchy, but was doing the wedding and reception thing, didn’t pay that much attention. I woke up during the night because I was in pain. My skin from my neck to my ankles was beet red, enflamed and covered in welts. It took miserable week and two cortisone shots to reduce the enflamation and welts. It was equivalent of a second degree burn. The dead skin is still itching and peeling off into the fourth week.
You guessed it....made in China. Some “finish” on the fabric was very toxic. The company I bought it from asked for it back so they could test it.
I read a few years ago that most food poisoning occurs in Chinese restaurants, least so in Italian. Since then I have NOT once eaten in a Chinese restaurant.
For one thing, these people do their laundry and cooking in the same pots.
We recently threw out some gift Malaysian cookies as they were identified to have Chinese malamine in them.
That said, my dumba$$ brother is a go between for China to clothing stores here.
When I question him about these things his defense for the Chinese is..(now he's a big liberal so this should not be a surprise).... America has recalls all the time. It's their turn for profit, they are more than happy to work for the pay they get, yada, yada, yada.
Read labels on food. I don’t buy anything knowingly from China, N O T H I N G.
Dollar Stores, Big Lotts, food for less, Costco and Walmart have many chinese products as does Supermarkets’ own brands are often from China. They are cheaper, for sure, but they are dangerous.
China’s system of quality control sucks. There is too much bribery, fraud and lack of control over their products.
Let your supermarket know that you’ll avoid Chinese products. I’ve questioned staff at supermarkets numerous times so they are very aware that at least one shopper won’t buy Chinese products.
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