A substance suspected of being a small rat is seen in a frozen vegetable product from the U.S.-based Columbia Foods. (Yonhap)
Posted on 03/28/2008 7:24:22 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
You couldn’t smell it since it was frozen but a second rat has been found inside a food package in two weeks. This time the suspected rodent was in a package of frozen organic mixed vegetables imported from the United States, the nation’s food safety agency said yesterday.
The contaminated product, “Willow Wind Organic Mixed Vegetables,” manufactured by Columbia Foods Inc., was immediately recalled by the Korean unit of Costco Wholesale Corp., after a consumer complained and reported the case to the Food and Drug Administration on Monday.
Sales of the product have been suspended.
The administration said the foreign object is the whole body of a very small rat, about four centimeters long.
“The final result will come out next week. But the object is currently believed to be a rat because it has fuzz all over it and what appears to be animal flesh when we look at it with a magnifying glass,” FDA official Lee Jai-lin said.
The Korean branch of Costco said in a release that almost 20 percent of the shipment has been sold and the rest will be pulled from its six branches.
Asked about the inspection process for imported food, Lee said it is impossible to look inside every package.
A rat head was found inside a packet of shrimp crackers on March 18. That object was believed to have come from China.
A substance suspected of being a small rat is seen in a frozen vegetable product from the U.S.-based Columbia Foods. (Yonhap)
year-of-the-rat alert.
Now, THAT is organic food...
Man: What's for afters?
Woman: Well there's rat cake ... rat sorbet... rat pudding... or strawberry tart.
Man: Strawberry tart?!
Woman: Well it's got some rat in it.
Man: How much?
Woman: Three, rather a lot really.
Man: ... well, I'll have a slice without so much rat in it.
CAPTION: 'ONE SLICE OF STRAWBERRY TART WITHOUT SO MUCH RAT IN IT LATER'
Man: Appalling.
Woman: Moan, moan, moan.
That certainly isn’t a Texas rat.
Nincompoofs... I said we need to produce more democrats...not more demo rats for the produce.
The Koreans are complaining about a rat in their frozen food.
What's next, they will complain about some vegetables in their bag of frozen rats?
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Now that’s a RAT!
Seriously, that don't look very rat-like to me. Mouse, maybe.
Probably some Chinese agent-provocateur hoping to take the heat off the shrimpy-rat-head story.
Sounded like a news article of some insider snitch revealing secrets from the Obama camp.
Not just any RAT. Show a little more respect will ya? 
Poorly written sentence. YES / NO ?
So, how did the consumer report it to the Food and Drug Administration.
bump
I don’t personally believe that anything named Willow Wind was imported to China from the US. Sounds more like something imported FROM China than TO China. Could be, I just don’t believe it.
LOL! Thanks for posting the article.
This specimen was deported by accident.
If you don’t want protein in your veggies shop some place else...
Oh...Abd ping me when y’all figure out who did what to whom where and when
Me thinks the two companies are not related.
Perhaps Columbia Foods, Inc, is the overseas shipper.
Willow Wind Organic Farms, 38278 Angels Landing N., Ford, WA., 99013
Columbia Foods Inc, Frozen Foods, 10504 Hwy 28 W, Quincy, WA 98848
Willow Wind Organic Farm has now grown into a 640 acre farm in Washington State and are developing a 2,000 acre farm in Oregon State.
We don’t have Costco and don’t think I’ve ever seen Willow Wind either, so I’ll take your word for it. ;)
Couldn’t prove it by me, just thought it funny since ya’ll were just talking about Costco. :)
Sufferin’ Succotash!
Columbia Foods Inc, Frozen Foods, 10504 Hwy 28 W, Quincy, WA 98848
I live 30 miles from Quincy, WA and have driven by the Columbia Foods, Inc. fresh vegetable processing / freezing plant. [Huge]
I am assuming they process The Willow Wind Organic Farm vegetables.
What a shocker this Korea story will be for the Willow Wind Organic Farm owners.
If it had been a dog, they wouldn’t have complained.
Ahem...
Ok, to me it just sounded Asian.
Yuck. I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.
I can understand the product from China, but not the one exported from here to Korea. Although I have never heard of that company.
Actually some of the stuff Koreans cook smells like rat. :D
So much for the Costco hotdogs tubebender. I will pass. lol
Maybe we need a rat embargo or something.
Well at least it wasn’t soybeans!
Imagine for a moment the posts on this thread had this been imported to the United States.
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