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China blocks toxic US potato chips (Pringles)
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Posted on 12/07/2007 4:24:46 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
China blocks toxic US potato chipsArticle from:
From correspondents in Beijing
December 07, 2007 02:55pm
CHINA has stopped the import of a batch of barbecue-flavoured Pringles potato chips from the US because they contained a carcinogenic additive.
But a China-based Procter & Gamble spokesman blamed the Chinese importer and said the shipment had nothing to do with the US consumer goods giant.
China has stepped up quality checks on domestic producers after a series of global scandals involving substandard food and drug exports in recent months, but has also named foreign companies that it says have failed its own quality standards.
Inspectors in July stopped a 95kg batch of BBQ-flavoured Pringles for containing potassium bromate, a flour-enhancing additive, according to a notice on the website of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, China's quality watchdog.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; foodsafety; pringles
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:25:38 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I agree with them on his. I can’t believe those things are classified as food.
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:27:47 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Oh, its okay for them to send us toys made with lead, poisonous dog food and god only knows what other dangerous additives in other food, but NO! they won’t accept potato chips from us cause of carcinogen's!
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:28:30 AM PST
by
proudofthesouth
(Liberalism IS a mental illness.)
To: Moonman62
LOL...you beat me to it.
I have eaten them before, but I suspect they are about as good for you as eating the styrofoam peanuts in shipping boxes.
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:28:56 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
Comment #6 Removed by Moderator
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:33:20 AM PST
by
sure_fine
(• " not one to over kill the thought process " •)
To: rlmorel
In fact, Pringles do taste much like styrofoam peanuts.
The way I see it, if you’re going to kill yourself eating junk food, you might as well eat junk food that tastes good.
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:34:58 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Scrape the bottom, vote for Rodham!)
To: rlmorel
Agreed.
I'd eat the Pringles containers. Plenty of good cellulose and fiber. But the pringles themselves? Yeccch!
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:35:03 AM PST
by
C210N
To: TigerLikesRooster
hmmm... Where was “China’s quality watchdog” when the toxic toys, toothpaste, etc. were exported to America?
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:35:20 AM PST
by
xtinct
(I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
China thought they were Paint Chips and wondered why there was no lead.
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:38:49 AM PST
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: TigerLikesRooster
They probably blocked this shipment because the potassium bromate is manufactured in China! THEY know what it really is.
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:40:34 AM PST
by
poobear
(Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
To: Moonman62
Mike and Ikes and Pringles - two main things that helped ease my morning-sickness./Just Asking - seoul62........
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:51:38 AM PST
by
seoul62
To: Moonman62
I can’t believe those things are classified as food. As my former business partner used to say, "they're chemically one step away from being motor oil".....
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:52:29 AM PST
by
Thermalseeker
(Debates? Those weren't no stinkin' debates!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Pringles are a brand of potato snacks produced by Procter & Gamble Aren't they in the cleaning products industry? Oh man.
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posted on
12/07/2007 4:59:05 AM PST
by
Cagey
(Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.......Thoreau)
To: Fresh Wind
In fact, Pringles do taste much like styrofoam peanuts. I gotta ask. How do you know that?
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posted on
12/07/2007 5:09:35 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Graybeard58
Where do you think cheese puffs come from?
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posted on
12/07/2007 5:13:31 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Scrape the bottom, vote for Rodham!)
To: Moonman62
Ain’t that the truth!
Pringles are nasty. I hate any reconstituted potato product, including Tater Tots.
Onion rings also.
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posted on
12/07/2007 5:14:22 AM PST
by
Vinnie
(You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Plastic potato chips. Who needs em ?
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posted on
12/07/2007 6:30:17 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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