Posted on 07/05/2007 4:58:59 PM PDT by blam
Chinese tomatoes butt into Italian market
ROME, July 5 (UPI) -- The farm organization Coldiretti in Rome warns the country must take precautions to protect itself from Chinese tomato products posing as Italian.
Coldiretti said that after the recent Chinese food scars in the United States, a "flood" of Chinese paste, preserves and canned tomatoes posed "a particularly dangerous situation."
The organization said it has become urgent that safety checks be boosted since the European Union recently turned down compulsory labeling for food products, "raising the real possibility that imported products are passed off as made in Italy."
ANSA, the Italian news agency, said tomatoes from China now account for more than 30 percent of all the food imports from the country.
Chinese authorities also reportedly admitted about 20 percent of its domestic food market does not meet satisfactory hygiene standards.
The food scares in the United States involved tainted Chinese products including fish, pet food and toothpaste.
Scars? Damn, I thought we had a scare, now I got to worry about scars.
GROW YOUR OWN Ping!!!!!
I started another flat of ‘Early Girl’ seeds this morning. They’ll be ripening just as many of my others are done.
Time for an inhouse greenhouse too. Granny grew tomatoes inside all year round.
I found seeds on the seed exchange for multi season spinach.
Guess what they use for fertilizer.
This is about the only time of the year I have decided that I won’t grow spinach or lettuce. I’ve got plenty of lettuce going right now, but don’t plan on putting any more lettuce or spinach in for another month. Then I’ll put more outside and try some indoors.
If I remember my history correctly (and there was a lot less of it when I studied it), tomatoes aren’t Italian, anyway, but Central American. The Italians stole tomatoes from the Aztecs, and noodles from the Chinese. What comes around goes around.
my lone tomato plants are now taller than the cages!
woohoo! i think it’s because patton has been banned
from touching them. ;)
we won’t talk about my neighbors tomato jungle loaded
with big ol’ green tomatos...i think they must have
planted them earlier than i did :D
Ah so, you numbah-ten cheap charlies!
You tell old noodle-stealing ancestor Marco Polo that what go around, come around, so howzabout marinara sauce from People’s Tomato Commune No. 314?
After my home grown are gone (Michigan seasonal weather)
Here’s a U.S. family company that has no Chinese stuff.
www.redgold.com
I never knew that until Granny told me. I have to do that this year and from now on too.
Thanks! We need to shop locally, IMHO. I live in Florida, where you can actually get fresh local veggies all year, and I always shop at local farm produce places. Some of the supermarkets are even starting to carry local (not family farm, but at least in-state) produce, so I think there’s a wave starting out there. We have to encourage this. Good luck to you, and FReepers who don’t have access to good veggies - go check this out!
No more Chinese contaminated and semi-synthetic vegetables, no more fish-farmed crud that lives on its own excrement...
I spend extra money to buy three things: local wild fish and seafood, free range eggs, and domestic produce. I always check the labels.
A disturbing feature, however, is that some things are not labelled as to their place of origin, but only as to the distributor. To me, this means they’re imported from China, so I don’t buy them.
Someone is going to wake up with a severed horse head in their bed pretty soon! ;)
I have green ones on. I only have about 150 days max to work with, so a “late crop” of tomatoes is out of the question. I’ll just have to settle for what the FORTY plants I have produce for me. :)
I don’t want to hear it.........
LOL!!!
Good on you.
Guess what they use for fertilizer.
Umm.
What BLOUN and sound rike Berr?
*DUNG*
I would be willing to be the Italians don’t put up with Third World crappy tomatoes for very long. They grow some of the best in the world in Italy.
The Chinese are in deep doo-doo.
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