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Chinese Fish is Unsafe

Melamine has been found in dozens of products exported globally from China and now, it seems, experts are worried that seafood raised on Chinese fish farms might also be tainted with the industrial chemical, said MarketWatchNews, citing a Los Angeles Times report.  Among other foods that have made headlines in recent months a variety of milk teas and coffees, cocoas, yogurts, candies, cookies, biscuits, cheeses, eggs, and crackers, have all been found to be tainted with melamine, prompting international recalls.    Now, scientists and consumer advocates are worried that China-raised seafood has joined the ever-expanding list of dangerous foods produced in that country.


Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation

Murray M. Lumpkin, M.D.
Deputy Commissioner for International and Special Program

"As the aquaculture industry continues to grow in developing economies, concerns regarding the use of unapproved animal drugs and unsafe chemicals in aquaculture operations have increased substantially. The use of unapproved antibiotics or chemicals in aquaculture raises significant public health concerns. There is clear scientific evidence that the use of antibiotics, and other drugs and chemicals, such as malachite green, nitrofurans, fluoroquinolones, and gentian violet, during the various stages of aquaculture can result in the presence of residues of the parent compound or its metabolites that are found in the edible portion of the aquacultured seafood and can be potentially harmful to human health. Also, the use in aquaculture of unapproved antibiotics may significantly increase antimicrobial resistance to those antibiotics in human pathogens of public health concern."  Complete Testimony


Not 50,000 Babies but 294,000!!! Made Sick

"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


CHINESE MELAMINE HITS FISHERIES IN VIET-NAM

"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!

BATON ROUGE  -- Federal law-enforcement agents have begun new efforts to prevent Chinese shrimp producers from evading trade and food-safety laws.

Louisiana's shrimp industry, along with those in other Southern states, has waged a long-fought battle to curb the illegal dumping of cheap foreign shrimp on the U.S. market. The shrimp is often sold below production costs." Link


Chinese say "Melamine limit meets WHO norms"

The Herrickreport.com says ... "why is there any limit; remove all of the melamine you thieves and killers!

"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."

Possible Tampering .... but who?!


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
"One person in Chicago was hospitalized and another became ill in late May after eating a homemade soup supposedly containing monkfish. But the imported Chinese fish was mislabeled, and may have actually been deadly puffer fish. A delicacy in Japan, puffer fish contain the potent toxin tetrodotoxin, which is not destroyed in regular food preparation. Tetrodoxin can kill humans by first numbing the body and causing paralysis." Link


Three Gorges already wrecking the fisheries industry in the East China Sea

"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

"SOMETHING was wrong with the babies. The villagers noticed their heads were growing abnormally large while the rest of their bodies were skin and bones. By the time Chinese authorities discovered the culprit - severe malnutrition from fake milk powder - 13 had died."

A guide to Chinese Imported Food .... read this.... Link


Kraft Foods Explains their packaging and the Farm Law ... good read!

in part .... "If a product (or component of a product) is manufactured in a country other than the United States, the packaging will reflect this information. The label will state:
Product of ....     If no statement is made about production in a foreign country, the entire product was made in the US."


READ THIS ARTICLE

"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"  .... Washington Post  

FDA REFUSAL REPORTS ---       but even when you look at just China you must also look at other countries too where product comes in .... say Canada and then is repacked to the USA with Chinese product.


Expanded to include more FOOD ITEMS!

"Zhao Baoqing, first commercial secretary of the Chinese Embassy, yesterday at a press conference said that all types of food would be examined, with at least one box checked from each shipment -- confirmed by a government seal attached to a package or shipment, ..." But who checks the inspectors!

"WHO is pleased to have received this briefing from the MOH, which shows that the government has recognized that China has some special challenges and is working to address them," said Joanna Brent, WHO's Beijing-based spokeswoman.Link


How Safe is Chinese Fish Imports?

Well it better be really really safe as we import over a billion pounds! Link

 

FDA Says Chinese Tainted Fish Got Through...

"Last summer, FDA labs began accumulating evidence that 15 percent of farm-raised shrimp, eel and catfish contained dangerous or unapproved substances. The agency started throwing individual companies on its watch list, and ultimately issued a sweeping mandate that all shrimp, eel and catfish raised on Chinese farms be stopped and tested."  Link


 

Chinese Manager.... "Our company's most basic principle is not to harm the consumer," 

Wow and so I really feel better now!

SEAFOOD--FDA-Link

FDA Detains Imports of Farm-Raised Chinese Seafood
Products Have Repeatedly Contained Potentially Harmful Residues  FDA

   The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ..... announced a broader import control of all farm-raised catfish, basa, shrimp, dace (related to carp), and eel from China. FDA will start to detain these products at the border until the shipments are proven to be free of residues from drugs that are not approved in the United States for use in farm-raised aquatic animals.

  "The fish are being raised, however, in a country whose waterways are an ongoing environmental problem, tainted by sewage, pesticides, heavy metals and other pollutants."  Washington Post Story

 "In May, Alabama and Mississippi, which have their own catfish industries, stopped some grocery store sales of Chinese catfish because some contained low levels of antibiotics. The action came nearly two months before a ban by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Health officials in the United States and China worry that antibiotics could contribute to resistance in humans when ingested over long periods of time, making antibiotics less effective in the event of a serious illness."   Washington Post Story

  "China said Wednesday it will inspect fish farms across the country to guard against use of illegal drugs and chemicals, but insisted the majority of its seafood products were safe."   51% or 99% .... ?


Fish Oil  There are companies in China producing fish oil and fish oil capsules. (Link) If you are taking this product then by all means read the label and determine if possible it's country of origin. Fish oil is used as a lubricant in drilling and is manufactured in a few other countries to specifications that do not include human consumption. But where it goes after it enters the human pipeline is anybodies guess. 

" Pregnant women are often told to take fish oil capsules but must be careful to get the best quality, instead of cheap, generic stuff. The cheap fish oil may come from fish with contamination and may not be free of pollutants. Women should be careful about the types of fish and fish oil they consume when they are pregnant, nursing, or even when experiencing pregnancy symptoms."  

 (Women's Health recommends this product)

See a doctor first! The Herrickreport.com does not give medical advise!

And Food Additives?  FDA List                 GRAS-List ( Generally Regarded As Safe)

  Raw Pharmaceuticals and food additives -CHINA LIST


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


The Herrickreport.com is trying to be fair; if you have information that is pro-or-con about fish and shrimp products .... Chinese or otherwise please submit. We have taken information from the net and it can be questionable but we assume it is accurate.


Kent M. Herrick, Editor in Chief, 2010

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