China says firms exported tainted protein to U.S.

reutuers ^ | 5/8/07 | reutuers

[Flavius]

BEIJING (Reuters) - China acknowledged on Tuesday that two Chinese companies had illegally exported contaminated wheat gluten and rice protein for pet food blamed for a spate of animal deaths in the United States.

[Farmer Dean]

? What farm program is that?

[q_an_a]

any American company that would use China as a food source should have their head examined. The water has more colors than an IMAX double feature. How can their food not be contaminated?

[Flavius]

because a dow at 13000 plus says so

[Paperdoll]

How long before they ‘fess up to substituting Diethylene glycol, (used in anti-freeze), for a sweetener in cough syrups, fever meds, injectable drugs and toothpaste?

Do not buy any of these things, or ingest anything from China.

[Old_Mil]

A dow at 13,000 plus doesn’t do you much good if you’re hooked up to a dialysis machine.

[metmom]

I wish it were more clear about the sources of this stuff. It seems that the best you can get from a label these days is *Packaged for ________*, *Distributed by _________*, *Assembled in ________*; but very little about WHERE the stuff comes from.

[mom4kittys]

Can we make that an advertising campaign?

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Capital investments like corn sugar. Corn sugar sucks ass, but we eat it every day. OK now pay off politicians to pretend the US sugar beet farmers are the reason and slap a huge import tariff on cane. There you go. The corn processors who also screw the farmers have a nice game.

It is an evil game. Pop tastes better with cane. Corn sugar is not good. Organoleptically corn syrup is the ass of sweeteners but we eat it. Better stuff is cheaper if you dont distort the market with an idiotic tarrif.

[rickdylan]

First prize for stupidest group of people in the American business world easily goes to the RIAA with their lawsuits against grannie ladies and little girls. The whole world other than the RIAA knows that there is a price for which you maximize profits for anything, and that price is not the highest you'd ever manage to sell one copy for.

The second stupidest group of people has to be the people who make diet soft drinks and refuse to make sucralose only drinks. They've now had a perfectly good and good tasting diet sweetener sitting around for over a decade and they refuse to use it or, when they do, they add the other crap in with it so the drinks go on tasting like battery acid.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

RIAA and MPAA = reason for RICO laws.

The whole artists are so important to the economy is a complete farce.

I code. Steal my ideas. Try an keep up. I have new ones all the time. A good new idea is worth a nice pat on the head. Send me a few bucks for it or if it is that good pattent it for 7 years. Past that STFU. This is a new world that works faster.

[AD from SpringBay]

This is a big deal that is being met with a strange silence from tha tee vee media. What gives? Are they trying to figure out a way to blame the president?

[CJ Wolf]

Uh, that's not chicken.

[Veto!]

strange silence from tha tee vee media.

Within the last ten days, Brian Williams did a feature on the human food supply on the nightly news....I don't know which network he's on, I sort of caught it in passing. They interviewed a couple of ex-FDA employees who were ready to spill the probably contaminated beans. One was named Kessler, as I recall.

Onward to google!

[Veto!]

Further to post # 33 re David Kessler talking about human food supply dangers on Brian Williams nightly news: http://www.forces.org/evidence/pharma/fedspharm2.htm

Interesting piece called The Feds and the Pharms - Part 2,The FDA. Kessler was head of the FDA and very controversial for all the rules he imposed...The very antithesis of free trade, but he might be a powerful champion now for those of us who prefer a safe food supply to party planks.

In addition to the food supply, drugs are an issue as they are possibly made with imported ingredients as well. On a recent thread, someone posted a long list of FDA rejected products in March, which included products made in China by “Johnson & Johnson,” those nice Band-Aid folks. The concept of an old and trusted brand is quickly flying out the window in today’s new NAFTA world.

The flip side of regulation is the odious Codex Alimentarius, the UN’s attempt to regulate (steal) our right to take vitamins and other food supplements that would make us healthier than folks living in mud huts in Ghana. Big Pharma wants to sell us Vitamin C for $50 as a prescription med, you see. The UN studies are funded by Bayern, the German pharma company that makes Bayer Aspirin etc etc etc.