Eat at your own risk -- U.S. safety rules weak-(MOST vitamins made in china)

charlotte ^ | Apr. 25, 2007 | PETER KOVACS WASHINGTON POST

[Flavius]

Lost amid the anxiety surrounding the tainted U.S. pet food supply is this sobering reality: It's not just pet owners who should be worried. The uncontrolled distribution of low-quality imported food ingredients, mainly from China, poses a grave threat to public health worldwide.

[Nephi]

More failed promises of globalists.

[airborne]

But Duncan Hunter has been repeatedly attacked for his “protectionist” stance against China.

Go figure.

BTW, why are we buying grain from China?

[raybbr]

It's their contaminated water supplies that bother me, although I'm sure at the western-owned companies they highly purify all the water used in making vitamins just as they do here when making health care products. But at the Chinese-owned companies, who knows kind of water they use.

What percentage of companies in China do you think are owned by Chinese? I think it's very few. Either the Chinese govt. own them or a U.S. company owns them and pays rent.

[Pub Linkser--80]

Trial lawyers will have a field day with Chinese food companies. That company that made the bad wheat gluten is SOL, in my view.

(SOL = **it out of luck)

[airborne]

I doubt that no company is making any vitamin C inside America.

I love oranges! And they're still 'Made In America'!

[Pub Linkser--80]

Good point...heck, those patriotic American orange and grapefruit trees are still making 100% US made vitamin C.

[Pub Linkser--80]

I’d be worried about Chinese government-owned companies too.

[primatreat]

My Company has been making high end diets for research animals for 35 years; since 1976 they have always done a full contaminant screen on all the products sold to the industry. The (our) industry is Government and pharmaceutical research. They must protect the food fed to these very expensive animals. A contaminated diet could destroy years of research data.

Used to buy Vitamin C from Roche but it cost 4 times as much as the Chinese stuff. It is easy to check. We must but don’t know much about the human food companies.

Remember:
“The bugs in the flour do not come from you cabinets. They hatch out of the food product “ There is an “allowable 3%” insect eggs, etc. in our food sources.

[browardchad]

I quickly spread the word to my children to check whether the food they are buying bears a label from China.

There's no requirement to state country of origin on processed foods (it has to be labeled on unprocessed fish and shellfish at present, and in 2008, it must be labeled on meat and perishable agricultural products such as fresh and frozen vegetables).

A better rule of thumb would be to look for processed food (and all canned or bottled items fall into that category) that states "product of the USA." Most processed food doesn't state where it's from, because it's not a requirement.

I also wouldn't assume that the cheap/house brands are necessarily imported. I was in Whole Foods yesterday, and looked at six or seven different brands of canned peas, most labeled "organic." Only two had the country of origin labeled: the cheapest house brand was the only one I could find that was labeled made in the USA. The other brands -- some three times as expensive as the house brand -- might be made in the US, but by not labeling it, the manufacturer has the option of using produce from anywhere in the world, without the expense of reprinting the labels.

[sergeantdave]

I don’t know what to think of this.

If Chinese products are being added to our food supply, I’d guess it would be as fillers. That would be things like vegetarian TVP burgers, cake mixes (Good grief! There goes my favorite carrot cake mix) and perhaps cereal.

Foods like hamburger, broccoli and strawberries shouldn’t be affected by ChiCom pollution. For those foods we have to worry about the Mexicans washing them in sewage water filled with turds.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

Is my Centrum Silver made in China? I didn’t get a fortune cookie!

[MaryFromMichigan]

“The bugs in the flour do not come from your cabinets. They hatch out of the food product “ There is an “allowable 3%” insect eggs, etc. in our food sources."

Ew.

[Red Badger]

ping!.....

[RoadTest]

I understand that one or more of the midieval plagues was started by a ship from China docking in London.

[RoadTest]

“I love oranges! And they’re still ‘Made In America’!”

Don’t count on it. Ever since Anita Bryant spoke out against the homosexual agenda and the American citrus growers dropped her, bad things have been happening to the American orange groves (like frost) and more and more oranges come from South America, a place that may or may not be more hygienic than China.

[Thermalseeker]

Who needs suicide bombers when you control the food supply and what goes in it?

Exactly why I grow most of what I consume. I'm putting in a greenhouse this spring to extend my growing season so we'll have fresh, home grown salad makin's well into the winter months....

[cinives]

or live in the middle of Amishland, as I do :)

look out for the lard donuts, however; they are not a taste treat.

[airborne]

When I shop, I look to see where my produce comes from.

Bananas I can’t get from America, but oranges I have no problem.

So far.

[airborne]

Hey! Being a Lebanon County boy, I can assure you that growing up on lard fried doughnuts hasn’t hurt me one bit!

[wrench]

The importation of vitamins and food additives from China is even worse than it appears.

The exporter that is responsible for the poisoned pet food adjunct, is also THE major exporter of a laundry list of vitamins and food additives (for human consumption) to our biggest processed food manufacturers.

I stumbled across this when the pet food poisonings started, but didn’t save the link. A little googling should turn up the info for those interested.