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"China has dramatically raised the tally of children sickened by dairy products laced with the industrial chemical melamine to 294,000, more than five times the original figure. In a late-night statement on Monday, the health ministry also said six babies may have died from consuming poisoned milk, up from a previous confirmed death toll of three." Link
"VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City fishery authorities discovered high levels of industrial chemical melamine in 120 tons of fish meal imported from China by a Mekong Delta import company." SAY NO TO CHINESE FOOD ADDITIVES Can Tho Agricultural and Animal Product Import Export Company used the imported fish meal to produce 1,249,600 products that were sold to 11 agencies and catfish breeders in Vinh Long and Dong Thap provinces and Can Tho city." Stopping Cheap, Unsafe Chinese ... SHRIMP!
Chinese say "Melamine limit meets WHO norms"
"The government set a limit of 1 mg a kg for infant milk food and 2.5 mg a kg for other dairy products in October after the melamine-contaminated milk food scandal. Yang Jianhong, a member of Dairy Association of China, said the TDI "is scientific because it gives a tolerable level based on people's body weight". In early October, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said 2.5 mg of melamine in 1 kg of milk product would not cause health problems, but baby milk food exported to the US must be free of melamine." ... Don't buy Chinese Baby Food!! Tainted milk; Milk products, eggs, egg products, candy, ...it's in the food chain and people around the world are going to be sick eating Chinese products.. Chinese government later confirmed it was widespread. Unscrupulous suppliers are suspected of adding melamine to watered-down milk to make it appear protein-rich in quality tests. "Amid China's worst food-safety crisis in years, thousands of parents have jammed into hospital emergency rooms. More than 50,000 children have been treated for kidney ailments and nearly 6,000 remain hospitalized, the Health Ministry said this week. Four deaths have been linked to the toxic milk." Link CHINA BLAMES JAPAN FOR TAINTED FOOD! "The contamination is likely to have been caused by loopholes in the producers' purchase of raw materials such as vegetables," it said, indicating the companies might have bought from suppliers other than designated export-oriented farms. Meanwhile, another AQSIQ statement released on Friday said China had suspended all exports from the Shandong-based Wangyu Aquatic Food Company, whose mackerel products exported to Japan were allegedly contaminated with dichlorvos." Link Japan Sick from Tainted Chinese Dumplings "The prime minister and other leaders tried to reassure the public that the steps were enough to ensure the safety of food in Japan, which imports more Chinese food than the United States. But as public opinion appeared at times to carry a tinge of hysteria, a half dozen large supermarket and department store chains announced that they had taken all Chinese-made processed foods off their shelves, even products not made by Tianyang."
Chinese food recalled after poison alert "Three people in western Hyogo prefecture and seven in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo suffered severe abdominal pains, vomiting and diarrhoea after eating the frozen dumplings imported from China." and now one 5 year old girl has died Link
"Prefectural Government Office Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008,
the same package of a Chinese-made dumpling sold at a
supermarket in Chiba near Tokyo is shown. At least 8 Japanese
were sickened, including a child who fell in a coma, after
eating the Chinese-made dumplings contaminated with an
insecticide, police and health officials said Wednesday. A
family of three in western Hyogo and another family of five in
Chiba suffered severe abdominal pains, vomiting and diarrhea
after eating the frozen dumplings imported from China by a
Japanese company, the Health Ministry said. (AP Photo/Kyodo
News)"
Canned Food Export Halted in China "The investigation comes amid a slew of findings of potentially unsafe foods and other products. Chinese officials have vowed to tighten controls on food processors, slaughterhouses and other suppliers to help improve safety. China closed more than 6,000 slaughterhouses and created a database of 23,052 slaughter houses across the country as part of its campaign to improve food safety, the state-run newspaper China Daily reported Friday." Link US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told The New York Times in an interview published yesterday: 'What we need to do with China is deal with the most important issues of concern to Americans...right now, product and food safety is the No.1 issue.' Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. declared that "economic nationalism and protectionist sentiments" were rising in China as well as the United States. If China is unhappy with anti-Chinese sentiment in Congress, he said, it must respond by doing more to open its own economy to American investments and goods." Link Chinese Candy Sickens Children.... "Some 23 schoolchildren fell ill on Thursday after eating milk candies imported from China and were sent to hospital in Cebu, the Philippines, according to local reports. They were all discharged a day later" Mislabeled Monkfish
"CHINA'S Three Gorges dam isn't fully operational yet, but it is already threatening one of the world's biggest fisheries in the East China Sea. A drop in the amount of fresh water and sediment reaching the sea is to blame." Expect more problems with Chinese fish "China accounts for 21 percent of all seafood imported into the U.S. ($500 million of that coming through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach." "Monkfish was rejected for being filthy. Frozen catfish nuggets were turned away because they contained veterinary drugs. Tilapia fillets were contaminated with salmonella. The problems were even worse in April, when 257 shipments from China were rejected, including 68 of seafood. Frozen eel contained pesticides, frozen channel catfish had salmonella and frozen yellowfin steaks were filthy, ... " Link Demand country of origin packaging ... demand it now! Your Congress.................. U.S. House ......... U.S. Senate ... .... FDA The Number on reason Chinese Imports of Food are refused......!! FILTH Read this list and .....PUKE! .... no pictures please! And What do the Chinese say: "I dare not eat farmed fish or meat because most are fed with growth pills or pumped with bad additives. I worry about vegetables in case they are tainted with pesticide. I even think twice about the water I drink because it might contain heavy metals." .......... "I think foreign food is less risky. Even though they are not as fresh, I trust products from the US, Europe and Japan because those countries protect their environments. Sometimes when I see foreigners blithely eating raw lettuce in Chinese restaurants, I worry for them." Link Tainted and Fake Baby Food Killed Chinese Children
Kraft Foods Explains their packaging and the Farm Law ... good read!
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Expanded to include more FOOD ITEMS!
How Safe is Chinese Fish Imports?
SEAFOOD--FDA-Link
SIDEBAR STORY!!! "BEIJING: Chopped cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in a Beijing neighborhood, state television said. The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's perennial problems with food safety despite continuing government efforts to improve the situation." Link
Kent M. Herrick, Editor in Chief, 2010
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BATON
ROUGE -- Federal law-enforcement agents
have begun new efforts to prevent Chinese shrimp
producers from evading trade and food-safety
laws.