People forget about the tainted strawberry scandal about 10 years ago where school kids around the nation got sick from eating the polluted fruit.
The strawbrries were traced to Mexico where it was learned they washed the fruit in sewage water.
The trouble with globalization is that our imported food is not grown and processed under the same standards as those in the US.
This is one of the few areas where I would support a large bureaucracy to inspect food coming into the country. This, I believe, falls under the constitutional edict of protecting national security.
Five more recalls last night — more Blue Buffalo, Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul, Costco house brand, more Diamond, more Natural Balance. American Nutrition apparently added rice protein concentrate to foods it makes for other brands, without telling them. So pet food labels are meaningless — there is no way for a consumer to know what is in the can, bag, or pouch of pet food they buy. As I have been saying for 3 weeks, I expect many more recalls, and I wouldn’t be surprised to find that contaminated Chinese vegetable proteins have been added to numerous human foods, too.