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Food and Product Supply/Contamination Issues
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BEIJING, China (AP) "Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and
flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches
of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said...."
Chinese food 'made from cardboard' from CNN.com, July 12, 2007
(Click to read entire article)
"...Formaldehyde,
illegal dyes, and industrial wax were found being used to make candy, pickles,
crackers and seafood, it said, citing Han Yi, an official with the General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, which is
responsible for food safety....
...Other products turned away by U.S. inspectors include toxic monkfish, frozen
eel and juice made with unsafe color additives...."
China shuts 180 food factories for chemicals
Toxic ingredients used in products from candy to
seafood, state media says by
the Associated Press, June 27, 2007
(Click to read)
"In the wake of scandals involving
tainted food and toothpaste from China comes word of a new concern from the U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission as well as the Food and Drug Administration –
toys, makeup, glazed pottery and other products that contain significant amounts
of lead...."
China exports lead poisoning From eye shadow to glazed
pottery, products pose danger to U.S. kids
from
WorldNetDaily.com, June 7,
2007
(Click to read entire article)
"While the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration issued consumer warnings to avoid using potentially deadly
Chinese-made toothpaste, the Chinese government continued to deny there was any
danger from the contaminant diethylene glycol – a solvent used in antifreeze
that killed 107 Americans when it was introduced in an elixir 70 years ago.
The FDA yesterday urged consumers to check labels for toothpaste made in China –
and throw them away.
China's toothpaste contaminant has long, deadly, grisly history FDA warns
Americans to avoid products containing poisonous antifreeze solvent
from
WorldNetDaily.com, June 6,
2007
(Click to read)
"China,
the leading exporter of seafood to the U.S., is raising most of its fish
products in water contaminated with raw sewage and compensating by using
dangerous drugs and chemicals, many of which are banned by the Food and Drug
Administration....
...But the grave news on China's seafood exports is
worsened by the FDA's inability to inspect imports. The percentage of important
seafood shipments with samples taken for laboratory inspection has decreased
over the past four years, from 0.88 percent in 2003 to 0.59 percent in 2006 –
this while seafood consumption in the U.S. was rising and more of that seafood
was coming from China...."
from
Seafood imports from China raised in untreated sewage Fish products consumed by
Americans treated with dangerous drugs, chemicals by
Joseph Farah,
from
WorldNetDaily.com, June
4,
2007
(Click to read)
Just as Canadian and
U.S. health officials were scrambling to find out which brands
of Chinese-made toothpaste had entered their countries, the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced last Friday that it
has intercepted a shipment of corn gluten from China
contaminated with melamine and cyanuric acid....
...Within China, quality control and food safety regulations
tend to be lax or non-existent, and consumers have to be
constantly vigilant for so-called "fake products," which can
include everything from fake soy sauce and fake herbs to wine
with high levels of industrial ethanol and vegetables overdosed
with fertilizer.
"If you talk to anybody from China, they'll tell you about how
there's absolutely no food safety standards there in a lot of
the locally produced foods," says Dr. Warriner....
...Dozens of people have died in China as a result of
counterfeit drugs. Last year, 11 deaths were caused by the drug
Xinfu, a poor quality antibiotic that hadn't been properly
sterilized.
Many counterfeit drugs that originate in China and India make
their way onto overseas markets. In India, there's a law against
selling counterfeit drugs within the country, but not against
exporting them...."
Tainted Products Continue to Flow out of China
Toothpaste, cough syrup, and fish added to
growing list of contaminated products
by Omid Ghoreishi,
Epoch Times Edmonton Staff, The Epoch Times, International, May
31, 2007
(Click to read)
ALSO: "New
Zealand consumers should be wary of Chinese products after
companies putting cheap and toxic alternatives in food lead to a
spate of pet deaths in the United States, and hundreds of people
in Panama died from using a toxic cough syrup.
These products were deliberately adulterated to increase
profits.
The pet food scandal has instigated the largest pet food recall
in the U.S. and health authorities in Haiti, Panama, Canada and
Australia were forced to recall the Chinese cough syrup after it
was found to contain high levels of the chemical, diethylene
glycol.
...The latest recall is falsely labeled Monk fish. This could
possibly be puffer fish, containing a potentially deadly toxin
called tetrodotoxin....
Chinese
Corruption Allows Toxic Products Onto Global Markets,
by Barry Mills,
Epoch Times Hamilton staff, The Epoch Times, International, May
28, 2007
(Click to read)
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