FDA Halts Imports
of Farmed Fish From China
"The contaminants found in the
fish are the antimicrobials nitrofuran, malachite
green, gentian violet, and fluoroquinolone.
Nitrofuran, malachite green and gentian violet, which
are used to treat fungal infections, have been shown
to be carcinogenic with long-term exposure in lab
animals. The use of fluoroquinolones in food animals
may increase antibiotic resistance to this class of
antibiotics.
Fish farmers in China are purposely
adding these chemicals to the fish feed and water to
deal with fungal and bacterial infections" Link
Reports from FDA
Chinese consumers fear
their own milk and baby formula production
..... The country's milk products scandals in
recent years have triggered a craze for overseas
dairy products. Link
"In 2008, baby formula tainted
with melamine, an industrial chemical, killed at
least six infants and caused kidney problems in more
than 300,000 children across the country.
A year later, similarly tainted milk
powder was found in Dongyuan-brand milk powder made
in Northwest China's Qinghai province.
In November 2010, quality inspectors
in Central China's Hunan province recalled 861
packages of contaminated dairy drinks, with each
package containing 15 bottles. Further investigation
traced the contamination to Dongyuan's case."
Link
"Your "Best
Choice" is tilapia grown in the U.S. in
environmentally friendly systems. "Avoid"
farmed tilapia from China and Taiwan, where pollution
and weak management is a problem." LinkWhere is your
shrimp from?
The waters of many
fish farms are considered unsafe even for people to
touch. Link
"Our
waters here are filthy," said Ye Chao,
an eel and shrimp
farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western
Fuqing. "There are simply too many aquaculture
farms in this area. They're all discharging water
here, fouling up other farms."
Chinese Fish is
Unsafe
Melamine
has been found in dozens of products exported
globally from China and now, it seems, experts are
worried that seafood raised on Chinese fish farms
might also be tainted with the industrial chemical,
said MarketWatchNews, citing a Los Angeles Times
report. Among other foods that have made
headlines in recent months a variety of milk teas and
coffees, cocoas, yogurts, candies, cookies, biscuits,
cheeses, eggs, and crackers, have all been found to
be tainted with melamine, prompting international
recalls. Now, scientists and
consumer advocates are worried
that China-raised seafood has joined the
ever-expanding list of dangerous foods produced in
that country.
Senate Committee on Commerce,
Science & Transportation
Murray M. Lumpkin, M.D.
Deputy Commissioner for International and Special
Program
"As the aquaculture industry
continues to grow in developing economies, concerns
regarding the use of unapproved animal drugs and
unsafe chemicals in aquaculture operations have
increased substantially. The use of unapproved
antibiotics or chemicals in aquaculture raises
significant public health concerns. There is clear
scientific evidence that the use of antibiotics, and
other drugs and chemicals, such as malachite green,
nitrofurans, fluoroquinolones, and gentian violet,
during the various stages of aquaculture can result
in the presence of residues of the parent compound or
its metabolites that are found in the edible portion
of the aquacultured seafood and can be potentially
harmful to human health. Also, the use in aquaculture
of unapproved antibiotics may significantly increase
antimicrobial resistance to those antibiotics in
human pathogens of public health concern."
Complete
Testimony
Not 50,000
Babies but 294,000!!! Made Sick
"China has dramatically raised
the tally of children sickened by dairy products
laced with the industrial chemical melamine to
294,000, more than five times the original figure.
In a late-night statement on Monday,
the health ministry also said six babies may have
died from consuming poisoned milk, up from a previous
confirmed death toll of three." Link
CHINESE MELAMINE HITS
FISHERIES IN VIET-NAM
"VietNamNet
Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City fishery authorities
discovered high levels of industrial chemical
melamine in 120 tons of fish meal imported from China
by a Mekong Delta import
company." SAY NO TO CHINESE FOOD ADDITIVES
Can Tho Agricultural
and Animal Product Import Export Company used the
imported fish meal to produce 1,249,600 products that
were sold to 11 agencies and catfish breeders in Vinh
Long and Dong Thap provinces and Can Tho
city."
Stopping
Cheap, Unsafe Chinese ... SHRIMP!
BATON ROUGE
-- Federal law-enforcement agents have begun new
efforts to prevent Chinese shrimp producers from
evading trade and food-safety laws.
Louisiana's shrimp industry,
along with those in other Southern states, has
waged a long-fought battle to curb the illegal
dumping of cheap foreign shrimp on the U.S.
market. The shrimp is often sold below production
costs." Link
Chinese
say "Melamine limit meets WHO norms"
The Herrickreport.com says
... "why is there any limit; remove all of
the melamine you thieves and killers!
"The government set a limit of 1
mg a kg for infant milk food and 2.5 mg a kg for
other dairy products in October after the
melamine-contaminated milk food scandal. Yang
Jianhong, a member of Dairy Association of China,
said the TDI "is scientific because it gives a
tolerable level based on people's body weight".
In early October, the US Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) said 2.5 mg of melamine in
1 kg of milk product would not cause health problems,
but baby milk food exported to the US must be free of
melamine." ...
Don't buy Chinese Baby Food!!
Tainted milk; Milk products, eggs, egg products,
candy, ...it's in the food chain and
people around the world are going to be sick eating
Chinese products..
Chinese government later confirmed it
was widespread. Unscrupulous suppliers are suspected
of adding melamine to watered-down milk to make it
appear protein-rich in quality tests.
"Amid China's worst food-safety
crisis in years, thousands of parents have jammed
into hospital emergency rooms. More than 50,000
children have been treated for kidney ailments and
nearly 6,000 remain hospitalized, the Health Ministry
said this week. Four deaths have been linked to the
toxic milk." Link
CHINA BLAMES JAPAN
FOR TAINTED FOOD!
"The contamination is likely
to have been caused by loopholes in the producers'
purchase of raw materials such as vegetables,"
it said, indicating the companies might have bought
from suppliers other than designated export-oriented
farms.
Meanwhile, another AQSIQ statement
released on Friday said China had suspended all
exports from the Shandong-based Wangyu Aquatic Food
Company, whose mackerel products exported to Japan
were allegedly contaminated with dichlorvos." Link
Chinese food
recalled after poison alert
"Three people in western Hyogo
prefecture and seven in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo
suffered severe abdominal pains, vomiting and
diarrhoea after eating the frozen dumplings imported
from China." and now one 5 year old girl
has died Link
"Prefectural Government Office Wednesday,
Jan. 30, 2008, the same package of a Chinese-made
dumpling sold at a supermarket in Chiba near Tokyo is
shown. At least 8 Japanese were sickened, including a
child who fell in a coma, after eating the
Chinese-made dumplings contaminated with an
insecticide, police and health officials said
Wednesday. A family of three in western Hyogo and
another family of five in Chiba suffered severe
abdominal pains, vomiting and diarrhea after eating
the frozen dumplings imported from China by a
Japanese company, the Health Ministry said. (AP
Photo/Kyodo News)"
Canned
Food Export Halted in China
"The investigation comes amid
a slew of findings of potentially unsafe foods and
other products. Chinese officials have vowed to
tighten controls on food processors, slaughterhouses
and other suppliers to help improve safety.
China closed more than 6,000
slaughterhouses and created a database of 23,052
slaughter houses across the country as part of its
campaign to improve food safety, the state-run
newspaper China Daily reported Friday."
Link
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
told The New York Times in an interview published
yesterday: 'What we need to do with China is deal
with the most important issues of concern to
Americans...right now, product and food safety is the
No.1 issue.'
Treasury Secretary Henry
M. Paulson Jr. declared that "economic
nationalism and protectionist sentiments" were
rising in China as well as the United States. If
China is unhappy with anti-Chinese sentiment in
Congress, he said, it must respond by doing more to
open its own economy to American investments and
goods." Link
Chinese Candy Sickens Children.... "Some 23 schoolchildren fell ill on
Thursday after eating milk candies imported from
China and were sent to hospital in Cebu, the
Philippines, according to local reports. They were
all discharged a day later"
Mislabeled
Monkfish
"One person in Chicago was hospitalized and
another became ill in late May after eating a
homemade soup supposedly containing monkfish. But the
imported Chinese fish was mislabeled, and may have
actually been deadly
puffer fish. A delicacy in Japan, puffer fish
contain the potent toxin tetrodotoxin, which is not
destroyed in regular food preparation. Tetrodoxin can
kill humans by first numbing the body and causing
paralysis." Link
Three Gorges
already wrecking the fisheries industry in the
East China Sea
"CHINA'S Three Gorges dam isn't
fully operational yet, but it is already threatening
one of the world's biggest fisheries in the East
China Sea. A drop in the amount of fresh water and
sediment reaching the sea is to blame." Expect
more problems with Chinese fish
"China accounts for 21 percent
of all seafood imported into the U.S. ($500 million
of that coming through the ports of Los Angeles and
Long Beach."
"Monkfish was rejected for
being filthy. Frozen catfish nuggets were turned away
because they contained veterinary drugs. Tilapia
fillets were contaminated with salmonella. The
problems were even worse in April, when 257 shipments
from China were rejected, including 68 of seafood.
Frozen eel contained pesticides, frozen channel
catfish had salmonella and frozen yellowfin steaks
were filthy, ... "
Link
Demand country of origin packaging
... demand it now!
Your
Congress.................. U.S. House
......... U.S.
Senate ... .... FDA
The Number on
reason Chinese Imports of Food are refused......!!
FILTH
Read this list and .....PUKE! .... no pictures please!
And What do the
Chinese say: "I dare not eat farmed fish
or meat because most are fed with growth pills or
pumped with bad additives. I worry about vegetables
in case they are tainted with pesticide. I even think
twice about the water I drink because it might
contain heavy metals." .......... "I
think foreign food is less risky. Even though
they are not as fresh, I trust products from the US,
Europe and Japan because those countries protect
their environments. Sometimes when I see foreigners
blithely eating raw lettuce in Chinese restaurants, I
worry for them." Link
Kent M. Herrick, Editor in Chief, 2010
