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Heavy Metal: 12 Million Tons of Chinese Rice Contaminated
Time.com ^ | 2/23/11

Posted on 02/27/2011 8:23:18 PM PST by LibWhacker

Ugh. Hong Kong's English daily South China Morning Post has a distinctly unsavory dispatch from the Chinese media this morning: Government scientists have released research that millions of acres of Chinese agricultural land and over 12 million tons of Chinese grain are contaminated by toxic metal pollution, according to this week's edition of the China Economic Weekly, a state-run magazine.

Last week, a separate article reported that 10% of Chinese rice contained excess cadmium, a heavy metal known to cause cancer.

(Excerpt) Read more at ecocentric.blogs.time.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinese; contaminated; cool; foodsafety; foodsupply; heavymetal; madeinusa; metal; rice; toxicchina
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To: TigersEye

Understatement.


61 posted on 02/27/2011 8:55:48 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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62 posted on 02/27/2011 9:01:21 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: Doe Eyes
Where is the FDA?

Too busy trying to put the herbs and vitamin businesses on the chopping block. Can't have anything natural and wholesome floating around out there.....

63 posted on 02/27/2011 9:02:51 PM PST by LaineyDee (Don't mess with Texas wimmen!)
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To: mylife
Oh, God, there you go... About 10 years ago we went to the "Crawdad Festival" in the N. California Delta. I ordered a big plate of crawdads because I loved them as a kid, back in the Midwest, where my uncles and dad would cook up big batches of them. But the California crawdads, which were supposed to be from the Delta, tasted like crap. I'll bet they were from China. The whole time my wife was looking at me like "You used to like THIS???"
64 posted on 02/27/2011 9:05:11 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: DemforBush
Cadmium poisoning is nasty business

You are quite correct.

That said, does anyone suspect that the chinese would "waste" the grain?

I'm guessing that it the Cd will end up in various exported foods, perhaps after being fed to livestock or by being diluted with uncontaminated grain so the Cd levels are lower, but still measurable.

Oh, and if the rice is contaminated, what about wheat? (IIRC, china exports a lot of wheat gluten, etc.)

.

65 posted on 02/27/2011 9:09:42 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: LibWhacker

I cooked them right too, with corn on the cob, red taters and Zatarains pro boil II


66 posted on 02/27/2011 9:10:47 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: LibWhacker

The last crawfish boil I was at was out standing, The flesh was so tasty youd be gnawing on the claws.

That was local produce.


67 posted on 02/27/2011 9:12:45 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: TigersEye; cherry

Very useful, thanks.

Cherry, I’m glad you commented. Good job, thanks.


68 posted on 02/27/2011 9:13:30 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Seaplaner

The plastic rumor is about them “cutting” the product so they dont waste the contaminated rice.

Fold in enough filler so that the stuff doesnt seem so toxic.


69 posted on 02/27/2011 9:15:06 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: LibWhacker

You are welcome. I didn’t sort out union from non-union products so there may still be some chaff there.


70 posted on 02/27/2011 9:15:14 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: mylife
It didnt seem quite right. I looked at the sack and it was from China!

A couple of supermarkets got caught in *Louisiana* trying to sell that crap. It hit the fan big time in the news.

71 posted on 02/27/2011 9:18:23 PM PST by The Cajun
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To: The Cajun

Its NFG


72 posted on 02/27/2011 9:19:02 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: The Cajun

You know what they use for feed on them bugs?

Human ****!


73 posted on 02/27/2011 9:21:27 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: mylife
I cooked them right too, with corn on the cob, red taters and Zatarains pro boil II.

Try and save a few of them taters and the next day make potato salad with them. So good you would fight your grandma over them.

74 posted on 02/27/2011 9:24:10 PM PST by The Cajun
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To: LibWhacker

Give me the SKU and I can find it for you.

That’s why they put SKUs on everything in the first place. If you’ve spent any time working with them, it’s not that hard to figure out.

Or just ask any inventory company!


75 posted on 02/27/2011 9:25:00 PM PST by BenKenobi (Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. - Silent Cal)
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To: The Cajun

Dey soak up dem boil real good!


76 posted on 02/27/2011 9:25:13 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: mylife; shibumi

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77 posted on 02/27/2011 9:25:32 PM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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To: Salamander

Yark!


78 posted on 02/27/2011 9:27:46 PM PST by mylife (Opinions: $1.00 ~ Halfbaked: 50c)
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To: Delta 21

79 posted on 02/27/2011 9:29:19 PM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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To: crazydad

Red Zepperin.


80 posted on 02/27/2011 9:30:35 PM PST by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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