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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Alternate headline:
Americans use inferior and untested raw goods in human and pet food manufacturing.
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...
I doubt it. If they noticed at all, they’d probably wonder why we don’t eat dogs and cats.
Check out this interesting food industry publication. Several instances of bad Chinese food products. One example
FDA posts melamine safety/risk assessment
5/25/2007-The U.S. FDA has posted an interim melamine and analogues safety/risk assessment that describes the risk to human health associated with eating pork, chicken, fish and eggs from animals that had been inadvertently fed animal feed that may have been adulterated with melamine and its analogues.
FDA developed the safety/risk assessment in response to their ongoing investigation of contaminated vegetable protein products imported from China that were mislabeled as “wheat gluten” and “rice protein concentrate.” Based on currently available data and information, the results of the safety/risk assessment indicate that the consumption of pork, chicken, domestic fish, and eggs from animals inadvertently fed animal feed contaminated with melamine and its analogues is very unlikely to pose a human health risk.