[browardchad]

Here's a little common-sense advice for the food manufacturers: instead of portraying yourselves as hapless victims of Chinese fraud, insist on a paper trail for the ingredients, directly back to the supplier/grower. If you can't get verifiable paperwork, or you don't have a clue about the conditions under which it was produced, or you've never inspected the facility, don't buy it. The final product is yours, and the quality is your responsibility or liability.

The pet poisonings occurred because both the importers and the manufacturers were cutting costs and buying cheap crap that was obviously questionable by any standard (bags of rice protein stencilled "Melamine" might have been a small clue) not because they were innocent victims of fraud.

[wolfcreek]

“The final product is yours, and the quality is your responsibility or liability.”

You are absolutely correct! In these days where more and more of our foods are pre-packaged, pre-cooked and *fortified* for our convenience, We are all taking unnecessary risks.

For the sake of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, cook your own meals with locally grown meats and produce and avoid anything *easy*.

EAT LOCAL, SCREW GLOBAL.