FDA ORDERS DETENTION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTIEN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA
May 3rd, 2007The “Typical American Diet” amounts to a perpetual, slow moving genocide. But that’s on the best of days.
What you have here is a cluster f*&% of unimaginable proportions.
Via: U.S. Food and Drug Administration:
IA #99-29, 4/27/07, IMPORT ALERT #99-29, “DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA FOR ANIMAL OR HUMAN FOOD USE DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF MELAMINE AND/OR MELAMINE ANALOGS”
TYPE OF ALERT: Detention Without Physical Examination (Countrywide)
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For the vegetable proteins and finished products that have been found to be contaminated, it is unknown who the actual manufacturers are, how many manufacturers there are, or where in China they may be located.
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The source of the contamination problem is currently unknown and FDA has been unable to isolate the scope of the problem.
You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Cold War[s] never ended.
Or it could just be poetic justice.
WHY are we importing food from China at all? We EXPORT wheat there.
This is outrageous. It’s a byproduct of the rush to deregulate all industry because Reagan fooled people into believing that business would be more efficient and trustworthy than government regulation.
Self regulation doesn’t work when the business people have only profit as their overriding concern.
This is just tragic proof.
Enjoy.
And it continues:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ahgsYkPPiSZ4&refer=home
Drugmakers Alerted by U.S. FDA to Watch for Tainted Additive
By Larry Liebert
May 6 (Bloomberg) — Regulators in the U.S. are warning drugmakers, suppliers and health professionals to be on the alert for counterfeit medicine additives that substitute a poison used in antifreeze for a common sweetener.
The Food and Drug Administration knows of no contamination cases in the U.S. like those that caused deaths in Panama, Haiti and elsewhere in recent years, the agency said in a statement posted on its Web site.
Some Chinese suppliers have used poisonous diethyline glycol, or DEG, as a substitute for glycerin, a more expensive sweet syrup, in cough medicine, fever medication and injectable drugs, the New York Times reported today. Researchers estimate that thousands of deaths worldwide have been caused by drugs contaminated by DEG, an industrial solvent and an ingredient in some antifreeze, the newspaper said.