Posted on 05/04/2007 5:12:56 PM PDT by Flavius
I agree with you. Other countries have no problem slamming the door on US products when we screw up. (Or as is the case with Canadian cows with BSE, banning our beef when we don’t screw up!) Ban all Chinese food products until they’ve re-read Upton Sinclair a few million times.
I agree. Ban the food from China. One thing I noticed, look at your apple juice. Usually stamped on the bottle, it tells you where the juice is from. Most of them have juice from China. I would never drink this. Only Motts has a brand with American apples.
Thanks so much for the pings. Too little too late., China. Thanks anyway. This is news today. Good grief. I would have thought this would have been done in March. I did not mind that my sunglasses were made in China (now I do). I prefer to know what I feed my family,(and our dog is our family too) and where ingredients originate from. I wish we could tell on labels what is made in America, not just packed in America.
My dog had a bad blood test. We did have tainted food, in March that I threw out. I really hope, since the test came back better the 2nd time, my dog does not have any future problems. We’ll see next test. She is young. Only 3 years old. It could be a coincidence but I’m doubtful.
Not only that, It can say made in the USA, but that doesn’t mean the ingredients don’t come from China.
Sorry about your doggy. Maybe you can keep his kidneys flushed out with sub-q fluids until you are sure the toxins are gone.
Why single out China? We’ve got problems with foreign food imports from a whole slew of countries not meeting our standards, and inspect around 1% of them at best. I think the FDA labels should require a notice about foreign source ingredients.
Poor baby, I hope he doesn’t have any more ill effects in the future.
Hope your dog does ok and gets back to normal.
(Chinese inspector): We have investigated your food products, and have found traces of melamine.
(Chinese food exporter): Oh, then I will recall the food.
(Chinese inspector): No need to do that...just add MORE melamine and we will certify it for export to the US.
...why isn't Meryl Streep shrieking over this?
"What are they doing to our CHILDREN?!!"
Prayers up for your pupster!
Check out redwingshoe.com. They've been making work boots and other shoes here in Minnesota for 150 years. Good stuff. /advertisement off LOL!
Thank you!
I just called my vet with my concerns re the dog food. Got the receptionist. she had NO info and I asked her if they would give me a refund on pet food I buy there. “No, we’re not giving any refunds.But if you want to come in for a ‘wellness appt” to get blood checked we can make one for next week!”
I will call MOnday and speak to the vet herself! I am mad.
I bet the reason the vets are not interested in this pet food recall is that they are now making even MORE money on the “wellness visits’ and caring for sick dogs from this.
My confidence and respect for vets has gone WAY down over this!!
Name the countries and we will add them to our ban list. Foreign suppliers must be subject to the same FDA standards as domestic suppliers. If this is not the case then I'm for banning every damned one of them until they are subject to such standards, fully and completely.
How do you know that only 1% of foreign food products are FDA inspected?
I don’t know, but I read an article about a week ago in one of the SF bay area papers, and it stated that 1.?%(Maybe 1.6%) of foreign imports were inspected. I don’t know if they meant 1% of all shipments, products, by volume or what.
The problem is that obviously we can not inspect all food, and we have no regulatory leverage on the manufacturing plant side in foreign countries. We can mandate FDA standards all we want, but I suspect it is going to be almost impossible to enforce. If they ship products here marked not for human consumption, and then divert them inside our borders, how do we catch it? The irony is that our enforcement efforts are probably going to be spent mostly on FDA compliant importers.
Foreign suppliers should be subject to FDA standards to the same damned extent as domestic suppliers. Screw up and you're banned until we are satisfied the foreign producer is 100% compliant. If the FDA can't handle it then disband the FDA since they will have demonstrated they are totally unnecessary. Since we would then have nobody to inspect foreign products we will have to impose a "no exceptions" rule--"eff" up our food supply just once and your product is permanently banned. Simple and effective.
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