Tainted Chinese Imports Common

[dbackjon]

A story that will be told only on CS.com...

In Four Months, FDA Refused 298 Shipments

Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical.

Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics.

Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria.

Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.

These were among the 107 food imports from China that the Food and Drug Administration detained at U.S. ports just last month, agency documents reveal, along with more than 1,000 shipments of tainted Chinese dietary supplements, toxic Chinese cosmetics and counterfeit Chinese medicines.

For years, U.S. inspection records show, China has flooded the United States with foods unfit for human consumption. And for years, FDA inspectors have simply returned to Chinese importers the small portion of those products they caught -- many of which turned up at U.S. borders again, making a second or third attempt at entry.

Now the confluence of two events -- the highly publicized contamination of U.S. chicken, pork and fish with tainted Chinese pet food ingredients and this week's resumption of high-level economic and trade talks with China -- has activists and members of Congress demanding that the United States tell China it is fed up.

Dead pets and melamine-tainted food notwithstanding, change will prove difficult, policy experts say, in large part because U.S. companies have become so dependent on the Chinese economy that tighter rules on imports stand to harm the U.S. economy, too.

"So many U.S. companies are directly or indirectly involved in China now, the commercial interest of the United States these days has become to allow imports to come in as quickly and smoothly as possible," said Robert B. Cassidy, a former assistant U.S. trade representative for China and now director of international trade and services for Kelley Drye Collier Shannon, a Washington law firm.

As a result, the United States finds itself "kowtowing to China," Cassidy said, even as that country keeps sending American consumers adulterated and mislabeled foods.

[dbackjon]

Last year, under high-level pressure from China, the USDA passed a rule allowing China to export to the United States chickens that were grown and slaughtered in North America and then processed in China -- a rule that quickly passed through multiple levels of review and was approved the day before Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Washington last April.

Now the rule that China really wants, allowing it to export its own birds to the United States, is in the works, said Richard Raymond, USDA's undersecretary for food safety. Reports in China have repeatedly hinted that only if China gets its way on chicken exports to the United States will Beijing lift its four-year-old ban on importing U.S. beef. Raymond denies any link.

"It's not being facilitated or accelerated through the system at all," Raymond said of the chicken rule, adding that permission for China to sell poultry to the United States is moving ahead because recent USDA audits found China's poultry slaughterhouses to be equivalent to those here.

Tony Corbo, a lobbyist for Food and Water Watch, a Washington advocacy group, said that finding -- which is not subject to outside review -- is unbelievable, given repeated findings of unsanitary conditions at China's chicken slaughterhouses. Corbo said he has seen some of those audits. "Everyone who has seen them was grossed out," he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 73_pf.html

[dbackjon]

I would rather pay more for US food/products than risk my health with Chinese CRAP

[AZGrizFan]

Who started this thread on AGS?

[dbackjon]

Who started this thread on AGS?

I doubt anyone yet. Tempted to break my self-imposed non-elimination game thread ban to do so, just to see how long it lasts...

[grizzaholic]

Who started this thread on AGS?

I doubt anyone yet. Tempted to break my self-imposed non-elimination game thread ban to do so, just to see how long it lasts...

With the word Chinese in the title it will not last long.

[AZGrizFan]

I doubt anyone yet. Tempted to break my self-imposed non-elimination game thread ban to do so, just to see how long it lasts...

With the word Chinese in the title it will not last long.

Try substituting "vagina". That seems to work ok.

[Wedgebuster]

With the word Chinese in the title it will not last long.

Try substituting "vagina". That seems to work ok.

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm? ... e=s5i15317

[dbackjon]

LMAO at Wedgie

[AZGrizFan]

Mr Harrison the delighted husband told me, "I was skeptical at first, we had tried every device on the market and still hadn't been able to achieve full penetration, but as soon as we got the new China vagina prototype, bingo!! I was up her like a rat up a drain pipe."

[Wedgebuster]

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