Posted on 09/08/2012 3:00:42 PM PDT by george76
Because of the importance of the US market, chocolate manufacturers in Switzerland are submitting to Uncle Sam’s intrusion in their factories but they are not happy about it.
“The fact that a foreign authority is involved in our Swiss businesses is unseemly,” Daniel Bloch, of Chocolats Camille Bloch, told Handelszeitung, the German-language business journal.
The newspaper has discovered that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to inspect 21 chocolate factories and 18 dairies in Switzerland.
The move is part of the implementation of America’s Food Safety Modernization Act, new legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama last year that aims, among other things, to combat bioterrorism.
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the planned inspections appear to go well beyond health issues to include such details as sales, ownership, employees and the size of company buildings.
“We ask ourselves, what is the real reason for the FDA inspections
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.ch ...
Free traitors want freedom from citizen powered government.
They want freedom for global corporations to do whatever they want to anyone they want without pesky citizens, borders, culture and sovereignty getting involved.
The corporatist fascist relationship called the US government is the reason why this is happening. Some corporation is using government inspectors to harass these foreign producers. This is not anti-trade, it is how ‘free trade’ works. ‘free trade’ is dominance seeking by select globalist companies to wipe out local producers.
What inspections does the USDA plan for the chocolate factories which Hershey moved to Mexico????
Sophistry!
OMG! Wtf do I do with the potential biological weapons I bought at the Geneva airport in August?
“The purpose of power is power.”
—George Orwell
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