Comments on: China Bans Melamine, Rejects Pet Food Link

FDA Suspects Source Of Contaminated Wheat Gluten In China, Inspectors Invited To Beijing

[agnim]

"snip We are China's biggest customer. They make billions maybe trillions of dollars a year selling us stuff. Everything we buy today is made, or has parts made in China. snip"

MAKES GOOD SENSE!

Chinese have a longer history of being GOOD BUSINESS PEOPLE: They ALWAYS give 'bigger bang for the bucks'!

Only idiots will complain about a bargain!

[incog-nito]

I didn't know they grow "rape" blossoms in China (see picture).

[northerner4-2009]

snip We are China's biggest customer. They make billions maybe trillions of dollars a year selling us stuff. Everything we buy today is made, or has parts made in China. snip

If you believe all the goodness and light stuff about free, honest and open trade, then you should really get stock in the Tooth Fairy. I am afraid, pollroller 1, that your attitude is precisely what the Chinese (and other not so nice people) want from us over here. They *want* you to think that the trade issues will keep things honest. They *want* you to believe in honor and justice and all the things they truly hate. Because that makes you vulnerable to their insidious ways. Remember - - their strategy is not election-year based. They look at things 'long term' and they are really quite willing to out wait any offering of overview by people on our side of the waters. They fully well realize that in a few months, this issue will be surpassed by some other more 'pressing' issue, and they can carry on without regard to any further consequence. Thus they eventually win.

[beanerman4]

Were we there before the mass poisoning to check out the plants? I don't know but would find that interesting to see if they ever even bothered to check out the facilities ahead of time. Does the FDA only rule in the US? And by the time they get there, the evidence will be gone. How "open" do you think a govt like China is going to be anyway. So great to have a global economy isn't it? Are we really saving a buck? This will wind up costing taxpayers, again, a bundle.

[erasmus6]

China said it had "banned using melamine from food products".

That means they admit using it and are now banning it. What ever made them think that it would be ok to put chemicals that go into plastics and pesticides into food ingredients?

Now the FDA has said there was rat poison in it and this melamine and have actually said they couldn't understand why this would kill the animals. They also said that there could be things in there that they wouldn't necessarily see unless they tested for specific things. So my point is, who is to say that these things are the real reason for the deaths? Maybe it is something else altogether that they haven't seen. It could be something else the Chinese have put in it or it could be something from here that went in it. AND if the food then goes back on the market, minus these ingredients, who to say it won't kill the animals again because it was something else that they couldn't see. They had a hard time figuring out that those two things were in it.
Who knows what is in any of our foods. Unless something is tested specifically for a particular thing, they won't know it is there. People die everyday of kidney failure and many other things. Who is to say it isn't from what is in our foods. Of course we already know that don't we?

[taddles-2009]

China has an abysmal history of food safety, why would we ever allow imports into this country from China without major inspections? Imports from Canada and the EU go through rigourous inspections at the point of origin but we have nothing but the Chinese governments "word" that they are inspecting their food at point of origin.

We also have the Chinese governments "word" that human rights are not being abused (except at Tianamin square or Tibet or prison labor or pretty much everywhwere outside Bejing....well ok not in Bejing either) and we have thier "word" that our intelectual property isn't being stolen (isn't that right Intel) and we have thier "word" that they aren't buying up American loans to tank the American economy at some time in the future.

We can trust that the Chinese government didn't know about the melamine or that it was bound for pet food...come-on, we have their "word".

[rf35]

We so sorry. We not know what happen. We make cooperate to find how you poor pets poisoned.

Meanwhile...

Hide the melamine before the capitalist dogs get here. We're slowing them down with red tape over the visas, but we have to get that stuff cleaned up soon!

[ralan40]

"The ministry said the contaminated vegetable protein managed to get past customs without inspection because it had not been declared for use in pet food. "

That is disturbing...
So what was this wheat gluten declared to be if not considered to be pet food? Potting soil? Food for Humans? A big screen Plasma TV?
Yet it got into our pet food supply, nontheless.
Nothing says it couldn't have gotten into human food.
Well I feel Oh so supersafe, how about you?

[spargle]

duh - we sell it overseas at very low profit, the buy it back for an inflated price. Ain't commerce great?

[farmer371]

I can not wunderstand why we are importing wheat gluten from China. We grow more wheat in the U.S. than we can use. I am sure we are exporting wheat gluten abroad. Don't make sense.