China is still in 1906. They need some muckrakers.
Posted on 05/27/2007 3:53:57 AM PDT by OneHun
...FDA inspectors report tainted food imports intended for American humans are being rejected with increasing frequency because they are filthy, are contaminated with pesticides and tainted with carcinogens, bacteria and banned drugs.
..257 refusals of Chinese products were recorded in April...
Refused by the FDA in April because they were "filthy":
* salted bean curd cubes in brine with chili and sesame oil * dried apple * dried peach * dried pear * dried round bean curd * dried mushroom * olives * frozen bay scallops * frozen Pacific cod * sardines * frozen seafood mix * fermented bean curd
Among the foods rejected because they were contaminated with pesticides:
* frozen eel * ginseng * frozen red raspberry crumble * mushrooms
Frozen catfish was stopped because it was laced with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines were turned away because they were coated with putrefying bacteria.
Toothbrushes were rejected last month because they were improperly labeled. And last week the FDA found Chinese toothpaste contaminated with a chemical used in antifreeze – the same chemical that killed people in Panama last year when it turned up in cough syrup.
The FDA is also on the lookout for vegetable proteins contaminated with melamine – the chemical that killed American cats and dogs when it was imported from China in pet food.
In the past year, the FDA rejected more than twice as many food shipments from China as from all other countries combined.
....the reason listed is simply "filthy," the official term used when inspectors smell decomposition or gross contamination of food.
Officials say FDA inspectors examine only a tiny percentage of the food imported... – about 1 percent -- meaning most of the contaminated products make it inside the country and to the shelves of retailers.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
These people will eat anything.
Not an exaggeration, they had pix of a cart with rows and rows of skewers with various yummy stuff.
Scorpions, large bugs, octopus and so forth.
A skewer of freakin bugs! Yuck!
This fella even snapped shots of some young Chinese ladies munchin out.
I’ve always heard of Chinese eatin dogs and stuff, but da...amn!
On another note, it would not surprise me to find out that some item are deliberately laced with toxins or drugs. If the Chinese could target certain functions in our society (like reproduction) or certain classes, I wouldn’t put it past them. They mean to dominate us and their scruples are pretty thin.
I do think it would cost them more money than they are willing to expend—it takes time and money to add poison. Plus, if discovered, they risk losing MFN
Their stated and announced goal is to sell us the rope with which we hang ourselves. The rope may as well be self poisoning and ensuring that Americans are incapacitated to the point of an inability to resist.
Buying Red Chinese products and sending American dollars to a PLA controlled Red Chinese economy is well close to an inadvertent act of treason.
Consider carefully what you purchase and where your cash goes.
YUM!
:p
“Don’t buy anything from wal mart food section,its mostly from China.”
What???? We buy the same brands at Walmart that we do at Jewel and Dominicks/Safeway. It is exactly the same stuff.
If it's unsafe to buy grocery products at Walmart, it's also unsafe to purchase them from Kroger, Shop 'n Save, Giant Eagle, and all the other chains because other than store brands, they all sell the same products.
Saw that most of the apple juice from concentrate in my
local stores are from China. Will no longer buy them.
But why is it we pay farmers not to grow crops, yet
we buy the crops from countries halfway around the world?
Everyone should have two or three apple trees in their
own backyard. and a veggie garden, we should stop being
such lazy jerks (note: “we”) and stop depending on
outside unknown contractors to sell us stuff we put down
our gullet! Not to mention that since most coffee is not
from the United States, think about how much money goes
out to other countries.
So we outsource coffee, food, oil/gas. I think it’s time
we took back our lives.
If you take vitamin supplements you are likely to have taken something manufactured in China according to their manufacturing standards and that can’t be a good thing. I don’t have a specific reference, but a reliable source in the industry says that 80% of vitamins are synthesized in China.
I suggested this possibility quite awhile back and was cautioned to locate my ‘tin foil’ hat!!!
I've been trying to do that with all products, but with every passing year it's been harder. Many categories of goods are very much dominated by Chinese manufacture now. Shopping for kids is a case in point - shoes, toys, and even musical instruments - all increasingly dominated by China. You'd be amazed at the quantity of stringed instruments flowing in from China, and more recently, pianos. I've been told that even Yamaha is planning to move production from Japan to China in the next few years.
Food is tricky, because so much of what comes from China isn't marked as such. If it's an ingredient in the manufacture of a food product, the individual ingredient won't be labelled as to country of origin. Fresh produce can usually be identified, but you may need to ask the produce department personnel to dig it up. They are not always well informed, and will assume that if something is labelled as "packed in California" that the food is grown in Cali, which is not true. If it's grown in the US, it will normally say so. Packaged in the US isn't good enough. A single frozen veggie in a bag may be identifiable as to country of origin, but a bag of mixed veggies won't be. China ships A LOT of snap peas and garlic, just for starters.
I'm doing what I can to grow a few veggies on our shady, deer-patrolled property. I'll also buy from our local farmers to the extent possible.
Since our Feds have abdicated food safety to a large measure, I've asked my state representative (who is new on the job and eager) to look into the issue on a state level. We have a lot of farms in Pennsylvania, and I would like to see our state legislature take action to help support them. I'd much rather buy Pennsylvania-grown food than imports, but without some kind of labelling, I can't always identify it. I'm hoping that something can be done on a state level to help us support our local agricultural industry.
I can't sit by and do nothing. I'll pressure my local store managers and continue to avoid Chinese goods as much as I can.
Pesticide and chemical content in foods is the cause for there being more overweight Americans today? It isn't caused by the amount of calories we consume vs. the amount of calories we burn?
You're free to believe anything you want but you're not going to find many others, at least those who possess a basic understanding of chemistry and nutrition, who agree with you.
It’s all about greed. Follow the money.
I used to think a few pennies here, a few pennies there...big deal. When corporations save a penny here or there, it’s big bucks to the bottom line.
Cheap labor, outsourcing, cheesy foreign produced products......pennies x millions = big bucks to the bottom line.
Considering only about 3% of all the food we import comes from China, you're going to have a pretty hard time proving that statement.
Does Trader Joe’s get food products from China? It’s one of the few places where I have bought packaged foods.
Go to your local wal mart and look at the labels. Not all of their food is from China but a lot of it is.My wife worked for them for a while and saw the labels daily.
Chew on this --
Not enough sources for you? Want more? I can post any many links on the european obesity problem as you want. Just hand me a number and I'll do the rest.
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