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« Reply #1380 on: November 20, 2008, 09:58:33 AM » |
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http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId={48B54BFD-41D9-4050-953D-5C0214FCDE38}China wants to conduct inspections for U.S.-bound goods
MENAFN - MarketWatch.com -Thursday, November 20, 2008
China wants to do its own export inspection for U.S.
Says U.S.-bound goods should be tested by Chinese facilities
By Michael Kitchen, MarketWatch
Last Update: 8:23 AM ET Nov 20, 2008
NEW YORK (Menafn - MarketWatch) -- China urged the United States Thursday to allow Chinese inspectors to clear exports to the United States, as required under new U.S. regulations.
"China hopes the U.S. side accepts certificates offered by the Chinese quality inspection department on goods to be exported to the United States," Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang was quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.
As of Nov. 12, the U.S. is requiring that all goods being imported from China be inspected by an independent third party, in order to assure quality standards, the report said.
Most laboratories in the Chinese inspection and supervision departments are independently operated, Qin said, adding they were well-equipped and managed to ensure fair results during examinations.
Qin's statement came one day after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened an office in China, its first-ever facility outside of the United States.
The FDA has ordered all foodstuffs coming from China be inspected before import, in part to guard against contamination with melamine, an industrial chemical that has turned up in baby formula and various dairy-based products, leading to a string of poisonings. My message for China is if you're not sure it's poison-free, don't export it. My message for the US government food safety authorities and Congress is if you surrender control of US food safety to
China, that's going to be all she wrote for the ordinary citizen. Stop allowing our food supply to be poisoned by any
country anywhere in the world, but most especially stop Chinese imports that don't pass US quality controls. There is no part of the Chinese government that one can trust regarding food and drug safety. The current idiots opening FDA offices in China are doing nothing but further wasting taxpayer money that needs to be used for United States in-house safety testing of foods and drugs.
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« Reply #1381 on: November 20, 2008, 10:08:19 AM » |
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where is the "screaming HELL NO" emoticon?
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« Reply #1382 on: November 20, 2008, 10:21:29 AM » |
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« Reply #1383 on: November 20, 2008, 10:26:42 AM » |
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You'll notice the Chinese aren't screaming for the European Union to remove its 2002 ban on Chinese dairy products. If the US government, having taken its first token steps towards American consumer food safety, renigs, ordinary citizens will have to do something I'm afraid. We're about to find out just how far into bed government and industry and poisonous food imports are, I believe, with a government in a country where human rights and consumer safety have absolutely no meaning. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/20/china-media-freedomThe Chinese government is allowing the media to report on unrest in the hope it can manage the impact
of bad news, Reuters has reported.
The decision appears to be a response to protests and disorder around the country, and to the speed at which stories
spread on the internet. How many victims of the baby milk scandal in China in 2008 were there really? eta: Let's not forget to include: 2004 Asian pets 2007 US pets decade long 30 percent increase in US kidney disease 2008 Asian-Pacific populations outside China 2008 babies, infants, elderly, ill vicitims inside China Time's up for excuses and meaningless propaganda. |
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« Reply #1384 on: November 20, 2008, 10:56:01 AM » |
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It is to be hoped that the new FDA office in China is not just for show. And I'll scream if the US accepts Chinese certificates of food safety!
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« Reply #1385 on: November 20, 2008, 11:30:17 AM » |
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"What is man without the beasts? If the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected." Chief Seattle
"We are the caretakers of our creatures . . . the peacekeepers of our planet"
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« Reply #1386 on: November 20, 2008, 11:33:28 AM » |
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Cato, I'm sorry, but it's just like the one CPSC toy inspector, three offices in China. Given the volume of exports, it's less than one person. When did it become the FDA's responsibility to police the entire global village  ... it's just a dumb wasteful idea. Stopping the imports at the border until proven safe at least has some merit, imo, and gives some consumer protection we don't have now. And I am SCREAMING NOW [Sorry] As always, 5CatMom, ty |
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« Reply #1387 on: November 20, 2008, 12:05:45 PM » |
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My message for the US government food safety authorities and Congress is if you surrender control of US food safety to
China, that's going to be all she wrote for the ordinary citizen. Stop allowing our food supply to be poisoned by any
country anywhere in the world, but most especially stop Chinese imports that don't pass US quality controls. There
is no part of the Chinese government that one can trust regarding food and drug safety. The current idiots opening
FDA offices in China are doing nothing but further wasting taxpayer money that needs to be used for United States
in-house safety testing of foods and drugs.
I hope the US government hears from all the people who are always extolling the virtues of national sovereignty when it comes to signing pollution control and other UN type treaties. This would be a good time to chime in. It could save their children's lives. |
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« Reply #1388 on: November 20, 2008, 05:44:19 PM » |
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« Reply #1389 on: November 20, 2008, 05:46:58 PM » |
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Now's the time to write and tell Chairman Waxman how you feel about the FDA: http://www.house.gov/waxman/contact.htmLongtime Head of House Energy Panel Is Ousted By JOHN M. BRODER [New York Times] Published: November 20, 2008 WASHINGTON — Representative Henry A. Waxman of California ousted Representative John D. Dingell of Michigan from his post as chairman of the influential Committee on Energy and Commerce on Thursday, giving President-elect Barack [edited] an advantage in his plans to promote efforts to combat global warming. By a secret vote of 137 to 122, House Democrats ended Mr. Dingell’s nearly 28-year reign as his party’s top member on the committee. You can check out Waxman's voting record here: http://www.house.gov/waxman/ |
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« Reply #1390 on: November 20, 2008, 08:47:51 PM » |
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Trust them to do their own inspections - GMAFB. They have lost any trust from the pet parents thats for sure and look at what has happened to the food that was for their very own infants/children. And they want to test the stuff now. Nah, we can't go back and give up on refusing milk containing products from that country. Stop the stuff at the ports and if its tests by the inpsectors and labs right here in the USA then it might get onto the shelves of the stores. If not then send it back with a lasered mark on the whole thing that can't be repackaged and slipped into another port to try and pass off the same cwap again and again til it gets thru. WE DON'T WANT ADULTERATED, POISONED, TOXIC loaded stuff whether its food or hard goods.
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« Reply #1391 on: November 21, 2008, 06:06:12 AM » |
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http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/scimedemail/la-fg-chinafood20-2008nov20,0,7878279.storyIn China, the U.S. opens food inspection officeLast year, the U.S. imported $321.5 billion in Chinese products, establishing China as America's second-largest trading partner after Canada. Overall, the U.S. imported nearly $2 trillion worth of goods, including 15% of the food Americans eat. Those imports came from 200,000 foreign manufacturers in 150 countries, Leavitt said. "My responsibility is the health and well-being of the American people as we watch these historic changes in the patterns of commerce," he said. Von Eschenbach said that U.S. officials would work with Chinese regulatory agencies to establish better safety checks. He also said that when the new system is up and running, all U.S. imports -- from China and elsewhere -- will require testing and certification by independent laboratories. The third-party certifiers will include private labs or Chinese government agencies working under the supervision and oversight of the FDA, Von Eschenbach said.Food experts say access to the 450,000 food-production facilities in China could prove harder than U.S. officials realize. U.S. staffing in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou will total between nine and 12 people, U.S. officials say. ========================== That's got to be the understatement of the new millennium.
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« Reply #1392 on: November 21, 2008, 07:25:57 AM » |
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I agree, JJ: GMAFB.....  Let me guess how they plan on doing their inspections: a month before they are going to inspect a plant, they will notify the people who run that plant. So by the time they get there, it is sparkly clean with the best ingredients money can buy with testing in place for everything......OR it's been bulldozed. Then they can report back: all the plants are clean with pure ingredients & are testing everything before it leaves & all the bad plants are gone. Oh my, what would we ever do without our beloved FDA!  |
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« Reply #1393 on: November 21, 2008, 08:31:38 AM » |
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JanC - that's also what has me wondering! The FDA should just go ahead and do "surprise" visits and inspections if they really really want to know what's going on in any particular plant!
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« Reply #1394 on: November 21, 2008, 10:49:51 AM » |
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I noticed this on USA Today website and just sent the email to her that I had sent to Kraft on 10/28 which has been not answered yet... http://www.usatoday.com/money/default.htmlook at "Who Sliced My Cheese" on the top left...maybe I'll get a response..Here is what I sent in the email!  I sent this email to Kraft 10/28/08 as I had two cats that were victim to the melamine catastrophe last year and had remembered that a bunch of us at itchmoforums (forum of pet owners who lost pets last year) were concerned about milk protein concentrate then being contaminated coming from China last year so now with Fonterra on the melamine map I wanted to know more about Kraft's products now that melamine has struck again (or still)
here's the inquiry I sent through their website with no response to date...thanks Do you still use Fonterra in New Zealand for your milk protein concentrate as told to a fellow blogger May of 2007..here is the link to the response and who from your company supplied the response..
http://itchmoforums.com/your-problems-with-pet-food/milk-protein-concentrate-t557.0.html;msg5524#msg5524 |
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