Your first point is correct that private companies don’t want to be sued. The problem is that many importers are at the same disadvantage as the American consumer , we just don’t know what are in some of these products and it’s impossible to find out .
You say buyer beware . I agree with that and always check for Country of Origin . It doesn’t do a bit of good with many food products that consist of many ingredients , many of which are imported from China and Mexico . That was the case with the pet food debacle .
It appears that many staple grain products are coming from China as well . It’s impossible to know if these grains are being used in many common food products , so the buyer beware argument doesn’t really hold up .
There is also a movement underway to do away with Country of Origin labelling on all products, which is a very unnerving prospect . Global “free trade” is great !
Are you comfortable with that ?
Ummm... Yummy Chinese buns ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289081,00.html
Importers are companies too and so can be sued.
I haven’t seen a flurry of lawsuits but I bet the liberal media, lawyers, and many other vermin are and have been looking for any way to sue these companies. I don’t want to give these cretins ideas on what they may be trying to do .
So if all the fear mongering in the liberal media were true then we would see thousands of these lawsuits every day.
Many trillions of pieces of food get sold in the U.S. every year. If even one of these is tainted then the liberal media will find it and blast it all over the airwaves. 1 part out of a trillion being bad is incredible reliability but the media could make it seem like the sky is falling. But nothing can be absolutely perfect. These companies are extremely reliable much more so that government idiots in the FDA.
Just like Edwards sued those doctors by making up lies I am sure they will sue these companies.