Posted on 05/28/2007 3:10:52 PM PDT by Paperdoll
While Americans are recovering from a scandal over poison pet foods imported from China, FDA inspectors report tainted food imports intended for American humans are being rejected with increasing frequency, as they are filthy, are contaminated with pesticides and tainted with carcinogens, bacteria and banned drugs.
No, they are just greedy.
I don’t think they’re trying, I think they just don’t care.
I’m not ready to leap to that conclusion, however I would like to know where the food I buy is made AND manufactured. Which is why whenever possible I buy native grown produce.
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Americans use inferior and untested raw goods in human and pet food manufacturing.
I don’t think they’re trying, I think they just don’t care.
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My thoughts, as well. I have avoided buying food from foreign countries for quite a number of years, now, as I do not trust food inspection in other countries to be above corruption.
Even if it’s not premeditated — how dare they have such disregard for our lives.
Nicaragua Seizes Chinese-Made Toothpaste
Monday, May 28 2007 @ 06:45 AM EST
Contributed by: Don Winner
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By EDGARD BARBERENA The Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua –
Nicaraguan police seized 6,000 tubes of a Chinese-made toothpaste suspected of containing a chemical that killed at least 51 people in nearby Panama last year, the health minister said Sunday.
All U.S. imports of Chinese toothpaste were halted last week to test for diethylene glycol, a chemical commonly used in antifreeze and brake fluid.
Nicaraguan Health Minister, Maritza Cuan, told Channel 8 the seized toothpaste labeled “Excel” and “Mr. Cool” had been smuggled in from Panama. “What we have to do now is recover all the toothpaste imported into the country so it doesn’t damage the population,” Cuan said.
In Nicaragua, the toothpaste was seized from a vast market in the capital. Some vendors also were hawking it door to door, Cuan said. The product also could have been smuggled from Panama to Honduras and Colombia. Panama ordered the toothpaste pulled from shelves there earlier this month after finding it contained diethylene glycol. The Chinese government has said it is investigating the toothpaste, which the manufacturer has said is safe.
At least 51 people died in Panama since October after taking medicine contaminated with diethylene glycol. The substance was found in cough syrup and other medications made in a Panama government laboratory from a falsely labeled shipment that workers thought was glycerin. The chemical was traced to a Chinese company. Earlier this year, pet food ingredients from China were blamed in the deaths of dogs and cats in North America.
I got the distinct whiff of jet fuel this afternoon when I was eating my mandarin oranges that were Made in China...I stopped eating them and called the retailer...
Me, too.
I prefer some fruit to be organic. When I saw some organically grown fruit from a South American country in the grocery store, I agonized over whether to get it or not.
“I got the distinct whiff of jet fuel this afternoon when I was eating my mandarin oranges that were Made in China...I stopped eating them and called the retailer...”
LOL!!!
I wish that I was joking...
I doubt it. If they noticed at all, they’d probably wonder why we don’t eat dogs and cats.
God that was bloody hard to watch. That last part reminds Me so much of when I lost My cat a few years ago. I did not even make it to the end before the screen started getting all blurry...
“I prefer some fruit to be organic. When I saw some organically grown fruit from a South American country in the grocery store, I agonized over whether to get it or not.”
I respect what you are saying. I am also caught in a quandary. Living in Panama, I’ll purchase foods from South America to include fresh mushrooms from Colombia. I have no problem with that. On the other hand, a few days ago, I purchased some enoki mushrooms without checking the label. When I got home, I saw they were a Green Giant product. It didn’t say from where the mushrooms originated. I read up on these mushrooms and concluded they were from somewhere in the “Far East” and then packaged in the States by Green Giant. I immediately fed the mushrooms to “GRRR” (the name of my garbage disposal).
I’m sorry. I didn’t realize you were serious. Aren’t tangerines (mandarins) harvested in the States? We grow them here in Panama.
Ingredients.
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