Eat at your own risk -- U.S. safety rules weak-(MOST vitamins made in china)

charlotte ^ | Apr. 25, 2007 | PETER KOVACS WASHINGTON POST

[Flavius]

Lost amid the anxiety surrounding the tainted U.S. pet food supply is this sobering reality: It's not just pet owners who should be worried. The uncontrolled distribution of low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave threat to public health worldwide.

[mom4kittys]

Ping

[airborne]

It wouldn’t surprise me if Hillary was getting money from China.

Those two have done more to harm America than any other couple in history.

[grey_whiskers]

Amazing. Assuming that the Chinese weren't really our great friends and allies, they could take out an amazingly large number of our population without firing a shot. Beats the hell out of a neutron bomb.

Read this. I hope it is tin-foil hat stuff.

[sweetiepiezer]

“to check whether the food they are buying bears a label from China.”
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But it doesnt say China on the label if they are assembled and packaged in the USA.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I guess I have to risk it because I’m not giving up tea.

[sweetiepiezer]

“I love oranges! And they’re still ‘Made In America’!”
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But we need bees to pollinate the trees.
Where are all the bees going?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dying+honey+bees&btnG=Google+Search

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Oh no! Not vitamins...

[mom4kittys]

I guess we all need to ask—What’s NOT made in China?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

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[Dr. Scarpetta]

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even American FLAGS made in CHINA...

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[mom4kittys]

That is SO sad!

[Darnright]

>Now why is apple juice concentrate imported? We don’t grow apples here?<

Well, we used to have lots of apple orchards around southwest Virginia. Now, we have a bunch of housing developments with cutesy names (one, “The Orchards”). Land prices are so high that people can’t afford the taxes, so they find it impossible to resist the temptation to sell to developers.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Certainly no single President seems to have profited more than the Clinton’s did from their China connection.

[Arizona Carolyn]

This is one area that speaks of more than money-savings. Reason being: Automation... vitamins can be made with little in the way of labor, so I don’t see a big savings there... what I do see is being able to be out from under the arm of the government that tests these products and all the overhead that entails.... and I amd a big believer in vitamins, so this concerns me!

[browardchad]

I doubt that no company is making any vitamin C inside America. I'd like to see some evidence supporting this statement. It could be that no major corporations are making vitamin C now, but small health food companies are probably still making their own "organic" vitamin C. I'm naturally suspicious of sweeping statements like this one from the MSM.

I don't doubt it. The author, Peter Kovacs, is not a reporter, and rather than a news item, this is an opinion piece. Since Kovacs "was president of NutraSweet Kelco Co. from 1994 to 1997," I'd say he's more than qualified to give his opinion, since ascorbic acid production is also a sugar fermentation process.

From Wikipedia: "China is slowly becoming the major world supplier as its prices undercut those of the US and European manufacturers."

From the article linked to that statement by Wikipedia: "DSM makes last stand against Chinese vitamin C,":

"20/10/2005 - China's dominance of the vitamin C market was confirmed last week as DSM halted all production of the bulk vitamin in the US, making its Dalry plant in Scotland the only remaining major plant outside of Asia."

Four Chinese producers now supply the majority of the global demand for this vitamin, selling at prices well below the numbers that are feasible for and the other remaining European vitamin maker, BASF.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"Perhaps people will go back to growing and canning their own food."

Proud to say that we have been doing so for some time now. Nearly 300 jars last year and that does not count what went in the freezer. I couldn't live without a canner and a Foodsaver!

[fella]

The label won’t tell you where the ingredients come from only that the product was made, that is mixed, in America. The ingredients could come from anywhere. The country of origin law that would have put the information we need on the labels was killed in congress by special interests with big bucks that came from you and me. By the way our congress leaders don’t seem to be to interested in this situation as judged by they total lack of actions.

[metmom]

There should be no food additives allowed from China after the pet food debacle.

There, that'll make it a lot simpler.

[Pub Linkser--80]

That could be right. I think there are some companies in America that extract natural vitamin C from citrus fruit and sell it in tablet form. But there may not be anyone left making bulk synthetic vitamin C.

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for the ping, this is getting beyond outrageous. The muslims want to bomb us, the illegal border invaders want to make our cities third world/gangland style neighborhoods and the CHicoms want to poison us!!

I just noticed on a box of Lean Cuisine dinner which I happen to like there is “WHEAT GLUTEN” in the ingredients...right up front. I am going to try to contact them somehow to find out where this comes from.