Posted on 06/09/2007 5:47:17 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Yep.
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The FDA on Wednesday said it alerted manufacturers of feed for livestock, fish and shrimp to a voluntary recall of products made by Tembec BTLSR Inc. of Toledo, Ohio. The FDA said Tembec had added melamine, an agent that is used in plastics and fire retardants but is unfit for use in food, to animal-feed ingredients to improve the products’ texture.
Here in Houston our manufacturing base is plenty busy with petrochem/oil biz as well as an amazing array of other products. My men started plating parts at 0500 this a.m. and will be here tomorrow as well because we have four rush orders to finish by Monday. Our turnaround cannot be beat and our quality is far above the imported stuff. No one wants to risk his life with a part machined overseas when the part will see 25000 PSI. I often cadmium plate aircraft fasteners that ship out to Brazil, Germany, or Japan.
Cal-Pure Pistachios Inc., based in Bakersfield, California.
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Well,,,there’s the problem rite there !! Don’t those people know not to eat stuff from California !! HEY CHINEZZ FOLKS,
Don’t Eat The “Spinige” Neither !! (it’s got POO on it);0)
hee hee
I’ll take ants over poison any day.
At least the illegal drugs they’re shipping us seem to be of good quality....
Nobody ever got sick or died from ants at a picnic...;0)
I thought the EPA chased all the cad platers out of the country. Is that all you plate?
I thought milky white ants were a delicacy in China. :)
I plate zinc and cadmium. We also passivate stainless, apply phosphate, spray teflon, molykote, anodize, and alodine. No the EPA cannot outlaw cad plating. It is essential to a number of industries especially marine and aircraft.
I plate hard chrome - EPA &OSHA are trying damn hard to make it impossible to continue in the US.
Oddly enough I just got back from China. China’s food supply is an odd mixture of extreme sanitary precautions as they cope with SARS, and the more normal older way of pretty filthy conditions. For example, the open air farmer’s markets have uncooked meats chopped and lying on tables with no cooling or packaging. Intestines are strung over strings. There were split dogs and split rats hung from hooks, although I have heard from my Chinese friends that the rats are illegal. Fish are farmed in nets in rivers, and I am not sure how much sewage treatement goes on in the area before the sewage goes into the river. In other words, given anything in the open air markets, and the ants, I’d bet on the ants being cleaner. One of the more sanitary things about the market is that much of the animals are alive in cages, and therefore not decomposing.
Just like mom used to make.....
Me, too.. I’ve never bought pistacios with ants...
We *must* tell our illegals to do a better job...
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