Sunday, May 27, 2007

China May Be Trying to Poison America


The U.S. market is being flooded with foods unfit for humans, tainted with carcinogens, pesticides, bacteria, and drugs. Some deceptively mislabeled. Sometimes the FDA is turning a blind eye
By de Andréa

Americans might want to consider avoiding any food or any consumable like cough syrup and even toothpaste from Red China, especially; prepared, processed, or canned food. It has a 99 percent chance of not even being checked by the FDA.

While Americans are still reeling from the scandal over poisoned pet food imported from Red China, the FDA inspectors are trying to keep secret the list of tainted food imports intended for human consumption. Foods are being rejected with increasing frequency because they are filthy, and contaminated with pesticides, tainted with poisons, carcinogens, killer bacteria and banned drugs.

Communist China continues to top the list of countries whose products were refused by the FDA, that list includes many countries, including Mexico and Canada, who export far more food products to the U.S. than Red China.

Some 257 refusals of Red Chinese products were recorded in April. By comparison, only 140 were from Mexico and only 23 from Canada. [Click for FDA list]

Frozen catfish was stopped because it was laced with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines were turned away because they were coated with putrefying bacteria. Toothbrushes were rejected last month because they were improperly labeled. And last week the FDA found Chinese toothpaste contaminated with a chemical used in antifreeze, the same chemical that killed people in Panama last year when it turned up in cough syrup.

Just three days ago, the U.S. warned consumers not to buy or eat imported fish labeled as monkfish, which actually is the poisonous puffer fish, containing a potentially deadly toxin called tetrodotoxin. Before it could removed from the shelves, two people in the Chicago area became ill after consuming homemade soup containing the fish. One was hospitalized due to severe illness.

The FDA is also on the lookout for vegetable proteins contaminated with melamine, the same chemical that killed American cats and dogs when it was imported from Communist Red China in pet food.

In the past year, the FDA rejected more than twice as many food shipments from China than from all other countries combined.

Most of the time, the reason listed is simply "filthy," the official term used when inspectors smell decomposition or gross contamination of food.

Officials say FDA inspectors examine only a tiny percentage of the food imported from foreign countries, about 1 percent, meaning that 99 percent of the imported products, contaminated or not make it inside the country and to the shelves of retailers, and worse yet, to your dinner table. If the FDA is catching all these contaminated products by just checking 1 percent, think for a moment, that means that 99 times the amount of poison food they are catching, Americans are consuming...

In the age of globalization, food imports in America are big business and getting bigger. In 2006, they represented $64 billion – a 33 percent increase over 2003. No country is increasing its food exports faster than China – about 20 percent in the last year alone.

China has become America's leading supplier of apple juice used as a food sweetener, garlic and garlic powder, sausage casings and cocoa butter.
Red China has also attempted to export hundreds of thousands of pounds of contaminated chickens and poultry products to the U.S., even though it is not yet certified to do so. Chinese exporters disguise the meat by labeling crates as "dried lily flower, prune slices" or "vegetables."
Despite the deliberate deception, the U.S. government is turning a blind eye and is about to certify the Chinese to export poultry legally.

THE BOTTOM LINE: One would hope the FDA is going to check each an every chicken; for POISON… I think it is about time to tell Red Communist China that not only do we not want their brand of government, we don't want their brand of poison food either...

de Andréa

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