Posted on 05/20/2007 9:26:17 PM PDT by Flavius
WASHINGTON -- As federal regulators scrambled last month to contain a pet food contamination outbreak, officials in some Southern states had a different concern: Noticing that catfish imports from China had skyrocketed, they began testing the imported fish.
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The discovery enabled Alabama and Mississippi to put "stop sale" orders on the catfish, tying up more than 700,000 pounds of fish in Alabama alone. But without these last-minute tests, the fish would have been eaten by any number of consumers, despite the presence of the banned antibiotics.
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your yellowfin tuna is from china too
its time to can the dolphins
The same incompetence that has created the big holes in our borders is responsible for the Holes in food import inspections.
Holes that will let terrorists and suitcase nukes in too.
just as well have no government as to have a bad government.
Given the title of this thread, I felt it incumbent on me to make a token appearance.
i just have nothing better to do
Time to take a step back and see just what were letting into this country.
Does any govt unit work besides the military?
Last month the FDA had everyone in an uproar because they were going to ban vitamins etc. unless one had a doctor’s prescription.
Now we find that they can’t even insure that the food coming into this country is wholesome and fit to eat - a responsibility that is a hell of a lot more important than handing the medical profession another way to make money.
In April alone, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration turned back 257 Chinese import shipments, far more than from any other country, FDA records show. At least 137 of them involved food rejected for reasons like “filthy,” “salmonella,” or because it contained banned ingredients. A good portion of the rejected Chinese shipments each month includes fish and seafood, such as catfish, shrimp, mahi-mahi, tilapia, eel and yellowfin tuna.
Other Chinese imports that did not get past inspectors included herbal teas, bean curd, candy, dried apples, dried peaches and peanut milk. Non-food items included everything from catheters to lip gloss.
While U.S. inspectors pay more attention to high-risk countries like China, critics say the added scrutiny falls far short of what is needed.
Yours is a much better reason than mine.
The Invisible Hand will regulate our open borders. Of course it will do so by killing off pets and people who don’t take the food they eat to a lab to be tested first.
This is sure an improvement over the bad old days when most of our food originated in America./sarcasm
God, that we can turn this around before it's too late.
In the meantime the FDA is doing their best to outlaw vitamins. Also so eager to protect us ... LOL!!!
Maybe YOURS, but NOT mine!
it’s too late.
I think a more pertinent question would be, “Does any government unit, besides the military, work in the best interests of the United States?”
A lot of them work against us.
Almost all vitimins are imported from China.
you mean what are they selling under that name
“Almost all vitimins are imported from China.”
If that’s true, then it is just irony, because that is NOT why the FDA had supplements in its cross-hairs.
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