Poison Pineapples Put 2500 Jobs At Risk In Rural Areas

Business Report ^ | July 10, 2007 | By Ronnie Morris

[Flavius]

they bombed Saddam for less

is this not a chemical atack

[Duchess47]

Don’t buy ANYTHING from China or anything with ingredients that come from China. Even their fertilizer is contaminated.

[DancesWithCats]

If it’s made in China, it’s NOT purchased by me ... no matter what it is.

[mom4kittys]

[headstamp]

“While the cadmium level in the exported pineapples exceeded the European and Swiss limits, it was still within levels accepted elsewhere in the world and producers would now look for other markets. The pineapples were safe for human consumption, with cadmium levels lower than those of bread (0.2 ppm), cereals (0.1 ppm) and lettuce (0.2 ppm).”

Watch them land here.

[mom4kittys]

i wish there was a way to know if food was fertilized by chinese products too.

[Calpernia]

I agree

[Duchess47]

So do I - even in my deepest paranoia I would have never thought that China exported contaminated fertilizer.

[mom4kittys]

The ramifications of that could be staggering.

[shield]

WOW...MORE CRAP FROM CHINA...chickens are coming home to roost.

[sweetiepiezer]

Pieping others

[Duchess47]

I wish we had labeling identifying countries of origin on everything. But what do you do about what goes into the product? Although I have noticed a lot of produce in the stores now labeled made in USA or grown in USA. I really appreciate that.

[toddlintown]

Heavy!

[hunter112]

Many of us are powerless to know if there are Chinese components of US-packaged goods. I worked a temp job a couple of weeks ago, the boxes of components were marked, "Made in France", and after the machine put five or six of the parts together, they went into boxes labeled "Made in the USA". The same is true for food, you and I have zero idea where that "grown in the USA" farmer got his fertilizer.

We NEED corporate America to care about this, the only way to make that happen is to identify so-called "American" producers who use ChiComm crap, and boycott the living hell out of them.

[Buddy B]

This story is from South Africa using China made fertilizer.

I do not know pineapples were grown in South Africa.

(Cape Town) - Jobs on pineapple farms and at two canning factories in the Eastern Cape are at risk after a consignment of 100 tons of canned pineapples was discovered to contain the heavy metal cadmium, found in a fertiliser from China.

[mom4kittys]

That can be misleading though. It may say made in the USA, but where did all the ingredients come from?

[shield]

I thought it was SA...but again it China products...geezzz wonder who’ll be executed over this one...

[Duchess47]

Exactly :(

[Cold Heart]

Some real deep thinking going on here. Burn our food as fuel so we can import poison.