Toxic Chemicals
The Food and Drug Administration has admitted that the same toxic chemical from communist China that may have killed thousands of pets in this country has entered our human food chain. The FDA says farmed fish were also fed food that contained the deadly chemical melamine and are scrambling to find out how many fish were fed the melamine-tainted food.
Asst. Commissioner for Food Protection, Dr. David Atchison reported, that a number of firms that received this fish meal are being investigated to determine exactly what has happened with the fish that were fed this fish meal. The fish meal was made with tainted Chinese wheat flour. Federal officials have found contaminated feed was given to millions of chickens and thousands of pigs in the United States.
The FDA and the USDA said in a joint risk assessment that the contamination in swine and poultry was "low risk to humans". These are the same overly optimistic bureaucrats, who said that there was no problem with our food chain less than two weeks ago.
Federal health officials, the FDA, USDA, and Customs and Border Protection, are testing large samples of any kind of gluten from China. Chinese exporters purposely contaminated the gluten used for the animal feed with melamine in an attempt to boost its protein content and raise its price.
Communist Chinese officials have been denying the problem for two months, before admitting the contamination after 100 brands of U.S. pet food tested positive for melamine, and the FDA received thousands of complaints of pets sickened or killed by the tainted food.
The leadership of the FDA food inspection needs to gain control of the situation, but haven’t received any help, from the Bush regime, which has cut back the on the number of food inspectors.
It shouldn’t be a surprised that toxic chemicals have contaminated our food supply, because last year almost nine million foreign food shipments arrived in the United States, but just over 20,000 were inspected by the FDA. That means that less than a quarter of one percent of the foreign food brought into the country gets inspected by the FDA.
Asst. Commissioner for Food Protection, Dr. David Atchison reported, that a number of firms that received this fish meal are being investigated to determine exactly what has happened with the fish that were fed this fish meal. The fish meal was made with tainted Chinese wheat flour. Federal officials have found contaminated feed was given to millions of chickens and thousands of pigs in the United States.
The FDA and the USDA said in a joint risk assessment that the contamination in swine and poultry was "low risk to humans". These are the same overly optimistic bureaucrats, who said that there was no problem with our food chain less than two weeks ago.
Federal health officials, the FDA, USDA, and Customs and Border Protection, are testing large samples of any kind of gluten from China. Chinese exporters purposely contaminated the gluten used for the animal feed with melamine in an attempt to boost its protein content and raise its price.
Communist Chinese officials have been denying the problem for two months, before admitting the contamination after 100 brands of U.S. pet food tested positive for melamine, and the FDA received thousands of complaints of pets sickened or killed by the tainted food.
The leadership of the FDA food inspection needs to gain control of the situation, but haven’t received any help, from the Bush regime, which has cut back the on the number of food inspectors.
It shouldn’t be a surprised that toxic chemicals have contaminated our food supply, because last year almost nine million foreign food shipments arrived in the United States, but just over 20,000 were inspected by the FDA. That means that less than a quarter of one percent of the foreign food brought into the country gets inspected by the FDA.
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