Posted on 04/13/2007 8:53:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SHANGHAI, China — The list of Chinese food exports rejected at American ports reads like a chef's nightmare: pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish contaminated with salmonella.
Yet, it took a much more obscure item, contaminated wheat gluten, to focus U.S. public attention on a very real and frightening fact: China's chronic food safety woes are now an international concern.
In recent weeks, scores of cats and dogs in America have died of kidney failure blamed on eating pet food containing gluten from China that was tainted with melamine, a chemical used in plastics, fertilizers and flame retardants. While humans aren't believed at risk, the incident has sharpened concerns over China's food exports and the limited ability of U.S. inspectors to catch problem shipments.
"This really shows the risks of food purity problems combining with international trade," said Michiel Keyzer, director of the Center for World Food Studies at Amsterdam's Vrije Universiteit.
Just as with manufactured goods, exports of meat, produce, and processed foods from China have soared in recent years, prompting outcries from foreign farm sectors that are feeling pinched by low Chinese prices.
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Thank you GATT, NAFTA and the multinationals! Another of the benefits of GLOBALISM.
Wish some of this Chinese crap would get into the pancake batter in the House and Senate cafeterias. That would be enough to get the attention of these idiots...
But then, with open borders, previously quelled microbes are being imported so it soon won’t matter.
Oh yeah — forgot to mention the kitchen at the White House.
Burp
Here’s an idea: start a boycott of Chinese apple juice! (Or for that matter, any food imported from the PRC.)
Check the labels in the supermarkets; most mushrooms, mandarine oranges, and some Dole fruit packed in gelatine (the snack packs intended for a brown bag lunch) comes from the PRC.
Puppy-On-A-Stick - The Official Food of the 2008 Olympics
I’m feeling angry over all this.
[[[[[[[ BUY AMERICAN ]]]]]]]...bump.
MELAMINE BOOSTS THE PROTEIN CONTENT IN WHEAT GLUTEN, and increased protein just happens to make it worth more...
In about a week,,,they will tell us “how much” got into human food,,,this is draggin’ out for a reason,,,must have started a year ago...
The problem is, the manufacturer is under no obligation to list the source of the juice -- take a look at any juice label, whether it's plain apple or mixed juice -- no source country listed.
The same applies to any number of foods: some or all of the ingredients might be of Chinese origin, but you have no way of knowing unless the entire product is produced, packaged and imported from China.
Then why do I see “Product of [fillintheblankistan]” on most canned fruits?
(now, now, no Barney Frank jokes, please.)
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