Chinese Poison Train Declared Unstoppable: Next Stop, You!

Chinese Poison Train Declared Unstoppable: Next Stop, You!

Poison toothpaste, killer cough-syrup, and tainted pet food are the tip of the disgusting iceberg of yuck heading our way from China. Over the past four months, the FDA has rejected 298 shipments from China that included "filthy" fruits, cancer-causing shrimp, and "poisonous" swordfish.

http://consumerist.com/262006/chinese-poison-train-declared-unstoppable-next-stop-you

Lennar Acknowledges Chinese Drywall Problems, Promises to Replace Material in Some Florida Homes

A dozen homes in South Florida are slated to have defective Chinese drywall replaced. Lennar Homes, the nation’s second largest builder by volume, has apparently acknowledged the problem, and is promising to absorb all costs related to the drywall replacement, including relocation expenses for people living in the houses.

http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/4592

Chinese Poison on our Tables

Entire plantations of products are cultivated on terrain contaminated by DDT and irrigated with water from basins poisoned by toxic industrial waste and by the water from urban sewage disposals. The plants are treated on a regular basis with phosphate-based pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers, which are both highly carcinogenic, rather than risk any imperfections in the harvest.

http://www.unmadeinchina.org/contStd.asp?lang=en&idPag=62

Chinese Poison Infants, With Baby Formula

Lead painted toys, contaminated pet food, general junk - to be sure not happy making Chinese purchases, but now...well - McClatchy has a report about baby formula contaminated with melamine, the same stuff that poisoned pet foods. Contaminated for the same reason, to boost the apparent quality of the food. Two babies in Gansu Province have died and somewhere around 10,000 infants have been fed the junk which causes kidney failure with 1250 ill.

http://chuckfor.blogspot.com/2008/09/chinese-poison-infants-with-baby.html

It’s about greed, higher profits, not about a world economy, just like the banking melt down, greed prevails and the lust of power that greed brings.

That's the only thing that keeps factory and farm owners honest, the fear that the heavy hand of the government can descend any times and find those barrels of melamine or drums of illegal pesticides.

China is going to have to do that if it expects to sell its foodstuffs to the rest of the world. Executing bad manufacturers after they kill people is simply not enough.

It's going to be difficult to convince a country with a large surplus population that the rest of the world doesn't share that problem and would prefer to keep its citizenry alive and healthy.

I hesitated to even touch it, let alone use it in cooking. I won't buy any garlic but that grown in the USA.

Pistachios, peanut butter, and beef have been recalled from American suppliers in the past year too. And a ton of other stuff not as widely publicized. http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.HTML

There are bad procedures and look-the-other-way-for-profit problems everywhere. As well as just the usual human error and fallibility of all reasonable safeguards even when the rules *are* followed.

I think possibly the only reason there are so many scares from China is simply because we get so much from China (and the stuff we get from China is often widely distributed throughout the nation). Other countries as sources may not be any safer, we just don't get as much from them, so the problems statistically are not going to occur as often. Plus, it has become "a story" so news outlets may be more eager to hype the story of "another Chinese problem." But I bet that, overall, the "chinese" problem is no worse than the "american" problem.

Is China trying to poison Americans and their pets?

Some 257 refusals of Chinese products were recorded in April. By comparison, only 140 were from Mexico and only 23 from Canada.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55892

Why are we even importing Catfish? other then safe Catfish raised in USA cost more! They could give a darn if the poison Americans but the US farmer know it could be there grandchildren eating the poisoned food.

First, that article is two years old.

Second, the figure of 257 Chinese refusals vs 140 Mexican is meaningless without knowing how many shipments in total were checked. If, for example, twice as many Chinese shipments as Mexican shipments are checked, you should expect about twice as many Chinese refusals as Mexican refusals if both countries' quality controls are about the same. I'm not saying this is the case, I'm just saying that, without knowing how many shipments were checked, the number of refused shipments is a meaningless figure.

I'll also point out that poor quality control is not strictly for export. China's melanine-in-milk problem affected their own babies. America's recent peanut and pistachio problems likewise affect our own citizens.

(In fact, in terms of not caring about "other" people, I remember reading that America itself does permit export of products that cannot be sold here, though I don't have a reference to provide here.)