U.S. Bans Food Imports from China
November 14th, 2008Via: Times Online:
Products from the dairy company whose tainted formula killed at least four babies are back on the shelves in China just as the United States issued a ban on Chinese food imports in case of similar contamination.
Such a broad ban by the Food and Drug administration on goods from an entire country rather than from a new rogue manufacturer is unusual and reflects the level of concern over how widespread the problem is in China.
Importers to the United States must now certify that food products are free of dairy or of the industrial chemical melamine that has been found in a vast array of Chinese products – from baby powder to milk powder to creamy confectionery. Failing that, the goods will be stopped at the border.
The FDA order said: “The problem of melamine contamination is not limited to infant formula products. Chinese government sources indicate contamination of milk components, especially dried milk powder, which are used in a variety of finished foods.” These are believed to spread throughout the food chain in China.
This seems to be it a first shot over the bow in
the new war.
Will existing items be stripped from the shelves for safe disposal and or testing,..or stripped
from the shelves and shipped to the first nearest other country without such barriers?
The Chinese did it with the toothpaste the last time it got rejected in one country it wound up somewhere else.