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Why U.S. doesn't stop tainted food from China
san jose mercury ^
| 5/20/07
| by Rick Weiss
Posted on 05/20/2007 4:55:44 AM PDT by Flavius
WASHINGTON - Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.
These were among the 107 food imports from China the Food and Drug Administration detained at U.S. ports just last month, agency documents reveal, along with more than 1,000 shipments of tainted Chinese dietary supplements, toxic Chinese cosmetics and counterfeit Chinese medicines.
For years, U.S. inspection records show, China has flooded the United States with foods unfit for human consumption. And for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught - many of which turned up at U.S. borders again, making a second or third attempt at entry.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: case; china; chinaingredients; foodsupply; freetrade; trade
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To: reformedliberal
Thank you so much for that info. I’ve been very curious about their quality.
Good luck with your greenhouse!
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posted on
05/20/2007 8:58:35 AM PDT
by
mom4kittys
(If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
To: VictoryGal
Thank you again. That site has really good information.
162
posted on
05/20/2007 8:59:19 AM PDT
by
mom4kittys
(If velvet could sing, it would sound like Josh Groban)
To: sam_paine
EVERYONE WHO EVEN THINKS ONE NEGATIVE THOUGHT TOWARDS THE GLOBALIST DREAM IS A SOCIALIST. CONFORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
163
posted on
05/20/2007 9:01:44 AM PDT
by
threechamps
(Carbon - the other white meat.)
To: grey_whiskers; sam_paine
164
posted on
05/20/2007 9:13:57 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: mom4kittys; reformedliberal
Spinach grows year round inside too.
165
posted on
05/20/2007 9:18:45 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Major_Risktaker
With all that is going on
poisoned foods, illegal aliens, our traitorous president and crooked congress
I am so angry Im going to go aspirate my house.
(Direct translation from Panamanian Spanish, aspirar means to vacuum.)
So, after I finish aspiring, I will check in
maybe. Im too upset.
To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
Won’t vacuuming suck up the ozone layer? You need to check with Al Gore on this :P
167
posted on
05/20/2007 9:24:40 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: James W. Fannin
Glad to see someone remembers the Cox report. Kilntoon did a great job bombing Kosovo to keep it out of the headlines, and I thought it had been forgotten. But what the hell...we can't let a little thing like thousands of undercover Chicom operatives already in the US (in '99...no telling what the numer is now) get in the way of Wal-Mart profitability, can we?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
05/20/2007 9:34:19 AM PDT
by
wku man
(Claire Wolfe, is it time yet?)
To: wku man
No sir, there’s money to be made.
To: palmer
No, those people killed their own pets by choosing the cheapest possible food for them. They deserve what they got and blaming the government is a sorry excuse for taking responsibility.
You are mistaken. It was not only the cheap pet foods that were contaminated. Many of the expensive brands were also included. Besides, most of the contaminated products were canned food and treats, which are more expensive than the expensive brands of dry kibbles.
I also believe that people are responsible for their own actions. However, short of preparing their pet's food at home from human quality ingredients, there was no way they could have prevented this tragedy. And, given this thread, I am not sure that we can count on human quality ingredients being safe either.
To: Flavius
do you think people whos pets dropped dead look at the labels
It would not have mattered if they read the labels. The labels would not have said 'Made in China'. The contaminated food was made in Canada, using a contaminated product that came from China. Reading the label would not have helped at all.
To: FatherofFive
Was just in the grocery store last eve and in the produce section I saw “local” grown soybeans! But importing them from the Puna farms in Hawaii is probably too expensive?
The farmers here do a good job and work hard with very little return. Too bad the agribusiness in Hawaii is overlooked because of cheaper prices else where...ie sugar cane & pineapples. The macadamia nut farms are slowly going under for better profits elsewhere.
Aloha oe
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posted on
05/20/2007 9:46:59 AM PDT
by
BigIsleGal
(Love to all on Rainbow Bridge and Luck to Us Who Aren't)
To: sam_paine
Im not sure I did mention subscriptions...but there is an email list you can sign up for on the USDA food safety site. You didn't, but the subject of how hard it is to monitor everything on your own as a layperson came up...
Thanks for the info on the links.
Cheers!
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posted on
05/20/2007 9:49:02 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Calpernia
Wont vacuuming suck up the ozone layer? You need to check with Al Gore on this :P
Okay
so Im peeking.
I could very well be sucking up the ozone layer. But the idea of having to talk/write to Goofy Gore is daunting. I read somewhere we are all finished in 5 years anyway
or is it in 2038? Oh no. That is when all the fish are going to disappear.
Im doing enough damage in my own house. I have a shop-vac. I mention this because of its aspirational strength. But anyway, one day I wasnt looking where the nozzle was resting, and I found I was scooping water out of the toilet.
Ive also carelessly scooped up dried cat food out of the kitties dishes. And last week a ceiling lamp was busted as I was wheeling the hose and nozzle around.
To: Major_Risktaker
Really! I won't eat Chinese chicken if it's labeled Imported from China.
But it won't be. American ranchers have been trying to get 'Country of Origin' labels on meat for many years. The big processing companies have made sure that doesn't happen.
To: tiki
Does anyone out there understand how absurd our food safety laws in the face of this?
Our laws are supersceded by WTO rules and the UN's codex alimentarius. Our president and congress do not act because they hold international institutions above the will of American people.
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posted on
05/20/2007 9:53:30 AM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
(I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: sam_paine
loopholes they already create
THEY didn't create it. They have been overrriden by an executive order in 1996 by Bill Clinton telling all branches of the federal government to harmonize with the Codex Alimentarius. They are hamstrung by a congress that keeps passing "free trade" agreements that bind us to WTO rules on phytosanitation in trade, and Codex Alimentarius.
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posted on
05/20/2007 9:55:35 AM PDT
by
hedgetrimmer
(I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
Your shop-vac made in China?
178
posted on
05/20/2007 9:56:21 AM PDT
by
BigIsleGal
(Love to all on Rainbow Bridge and Luck to Us Who Aren't)
To: sam_paine
Used to be that a certificate from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture acting as a certifying authority as to what constituted food of a given type was considered a badge of honor by food makers, and honored in regulatory requirement by other states.
That role of a State-based authority was subsumed by the Federal Government -- by the constitutionally loathsome overreach and by-centralism's-very-nature despotic centralization carried out by our well-pensioned and well-"connected" FDA bureaucrats of the upper reaches of G-level-dom.
Now the FDA has become a publicly undeniable utter failure of a watchdog. NOT one of its manifold areas of watch can any longer be trusted.
Thus there now exists the market opportunity for private certification solutions, and for honest businesses to market the value-added of scruples and honesty.
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posted on
05/20/2007 9:57:41 AM PDT
by
bvw
To: Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
::sneaks over to the local DNC office with Gatún’s shop vac::
180
posted on
05/20/2007 9:58:58 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
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