We will probably never find out for sure if this stuff has entered the food supply directly. Don’t want to panic the people and all. If it has, the best we will get is rumors and noticing that a local hospital is treating an unusually large group of kidney patients, or realizing that several people that one knows are having kidney problems. In the meantime China is refusing to allow American inspectors into Chinese food plants and we are responding with more diplomacy. The first awareness of the problem should have got food and food product imports from China shut off with unloading freighters sequestered in the ports.
The Chinese granted the FDA permission to inspect the plants today.
China yields to U.S. investigation on pet food
Of course, by now the plants have probably been tidied up a bit.