Posted on 05/17/2007 5:53:15 PM PDT by Flavius
“Now the European and US clients are checking every batch of products coming from China ... The GMO test is one. Now you add tests for melamine or other heavy metals or pesticides, the costs are very high, too high,” Ng said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytimes.com.pk ...
It’s crazy.
They have to bring this stuff to us in ships, which uses up fossil fuels and sends even more CO2 into the atmosphere and goodness knows what other pollutants into the air and the ocean on the way over, while using up the world’s supply of oil.
What’s worse, we even ship stuff over there that they work on and ship back.
And for what?
In ten or twenty years, when China becomes prosperous enough, it will cost a lot to make things there, too.
So there’s not even a permanent benefit to buying things from China that we used to produce here.
It’s just the rich and powerful that want to fill their pockets over the next decade or two, and take the money and run.
Bump.
That is EXACTLY what is going on.
I would definitely check it. What’s next? Who knows what evil lurks......if they’d put melamine in the wheat gluten/flour/whatever and cause 2500 deaths of pets just to fatten their coffers where do they draw the line do you suppose?
bottom line
You go to the grocery store nowadays with a whole different slant on things!
Foreign buyers, reluctant to take risks, are sending large quantities of food samples to international testing specialists such as Eurofins Scientific or SGS Group. Japan, own systems The industry officials said Japan, which accounts for about a quarter of China’s farm product exports, had also recommended importers check for melamine in Chinese products, such as rice flour or wheat gluten, for use in animal feed. “The safety tests for raw materials are likely to get tougher,” said a senior official from a Japanese food processing plant in China. “Eventually they could demand traceability similar to that for non-GMO products ... which would raise costs. Given higher costs and credibility, there’s a question if you would still want to buy raw materials from China.” A year ago Japan tightened safety checks on farm products from China, which has angered Beijing. The new rules require checks for nearly 300 pesticides and chemicals residues at loading ports as well as at discharging ports. Asked how to guarantee the quality of food imported from China, an official in charge of food safety at one of Hong Kong’s largest food retailers said: “It’s very important to get system in place for traceability all the way back in the supply chain. “When you have traceability, you can then have accountability. I think this is what China lacks.”
If every batch has to be inspected for every chemical under the sun (as opposed to random tests for a small number of chemicals), the day of large-scale Chinese food exports is done - for cost reasons. They can't say they did not have it coming.
You not boycott anything! Alla you house are berong to us! Alla you gonna eat oua nucrear waste!! You eat meramine or nothin!
We buy youa country with Warmalt dorrars. We own youa asses!
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Iraq's WMD's went into China's food exports.
Cheers!
For once we agree :-)
Cheers!
Well, becomes too expensive then maybe it will become the “in thing” to buy from American farmers again.
bump
All your base are berong to uzzzzz.....
OMG, whatever will American business do? China was just so cheap. No matter.
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