Why U.S. doesn't stop tainted food from China

san jose mercury ^ | 5/20/07 | by Rick Weiss

[Flavius]

WASHINGTON - Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.

These were among the 107 food imports from China the Food and Drug Administration detained at U.S. ports just last month, agency documents reveal, along with more than 1,000 shipments of tainted Chinese dietary supplements, toxic Chinese cosmetics and counterfeit Chinese medicines.

For years, U.S. inspection records show, China has flooded the United States with foods unfit for human consumption. And for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught - many of which turned up at U.S. borders again, making a second or third attempt at entry.

[Countyline]

Outrageous!

[fella]

PING

[B4Ranch]

>We are fully capable of supplying ourselves with what we want and need, all we need is the will to do so.<

When you have a president who is a globaliist, demanding that we expand trade with China the will to do so isn’t there and won’t be. Bush is building a system to destroy America.

[FatherofFive]

But importing them from the Puna farms in Hawaii is probably too expensive?

Sounds like a business opportunity. I buy Kona beans, even though they are more expensive. Replacing the Chinese edemame with a Hawaian brand seems like a natural for Trader Joes or another retailer.