Pueblog USa
Sunday, May 20, 2007
If You Value Your Life….
...be VERY careful when you buy food and healthcare products from China.
If life were not difficult enough as it is and the safety of the food we eat not important, this article would not be so ‘hair raising’.
The business of killing pets by adding melanine to the wheat gluten used in making pet food was apparently the straw that broke the camels back and got what seems to be a common problem out into the public purview.
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.
These were among the 107 food imports from China that the Food and Drug Administration detained at U.S. ports just last month, agency documents reveal, along with more than 1,000 shipments of tainted Chinese dietary supplements, toxic Chinese cosmetics and counterfeit Chinese medicines.
The cosmetics thing reminds me of the Joker’s means of attack in Batman.