Posted on 07/27/2015 1:15:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
There’s more than just cilantro in the growing fields in Mexico, and that’s caused the Food and Drug Administration to institute a partial import ban on it through August.
The move comes after health officials found human feces and toilet paper in growing fields, which have been linked to hundreds of intestinal illnesses dating back to 2012.
The FDA will focus on product coming from Puebla, and all of it will need to be manually inspected and certified before being allowed into the U.S. Cilantro from other parts of the country will need to have documentation proving it did not come from Puebla.
In the report, the FDA outlines a number of different sources for the contamination after 11 farms and packing houses were inspected by both U.S. and Mexican officials.
Conditions observed at multiple such firms in the state of Puebla included human feces and toilet paper found in growing fields and around facilities; inadequately maintained and supplied toilet and hand washing facilities (no soap, no toilet paper, no running water, no paper towels) or a complete lack of toilet and hand washing facilities; food-contact surfaces (such as plastic crates used to transport cilantro or tables where cilantro was cut and bundled) visibly dirty and not washed; and water used for purposes such as washing cilantro vulnerable to contamination from sewage/septic systems.
Both Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, and Chipotle told Bloomberg they don’t expect their cilantro supply to be impacted by the ban.
I think if we declare war, their weapon is all the rest of them are coming across the damn border.
But seriously, folks, who here hasn’t pooped in a field of cilantro before?
DANG!
Looks like something my food eats.
Sometimes. Italian parsley has stronger stalks, and the leaves have more pointy edges and endings than the cilantro,which is more fan-like. Sometimes ignorant stockers put stuffmin the wrong place. But the smell of themtwo are different and generally the cilantro is wilts more, and is thinner and doesnt stand up well likemitalian parsley. I get parsley regularly for my pets, for the last 11 years.
Curly is good too. My grocer wised up and cilantro is far away from both parslies now.
I would think now for both sets of folks it would just taste sh1tty.
India too. Both chian and india use shallow scum sh1t pools for raising shrimp and other such stuff.
Mexican producers successfully sued us under NAFTA at the WTO to force the US to rescind the law that mandates Country of Origin labels on fresh foods.
WTO gave the US until the end of the year to do so or suffer penalties.
I'm certain the Republicans will bring it up after the August recess as an obscure clause in another bill.
Do they have an idea what percentage of the pop has the soap taste and what % has the lemon taste receptor?
Better down there than up here!
Canada complained, too. I wondered WTH is wrong with them? Don’t they want to know where their food originates?
Curly parsley, that is
For years, I have refused to eat produce or any food processed in Mexico.
(I also refuse to buy Entemann’s pastries because that company is now owned by a Mexican company, but that is just because I am hostile to Mexican business.)
Also, apparently, the beef industry is complaining about the labeling program. They say they can make their own labeling voluntarily, and that the USDA Country of Origin Labeling program was started to try to get Americans to buy American beef, among other things.
So there is that wrinkle to consider.
It is racist to complain mexican field workers sh1t on your food.
+1
I just thought I didn’t like cilantro, bleh..........
When asked our GOP-e leadership republicans responded to those complaining with their normal answer,
“Where else are they gonna go?”
I don’t buy food from India either...now I’m glad! LOL!
That was funny dude.
Same here. I will not buy any seafood at the grocery store unless it is USA and wild caught.
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