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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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 Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: Milk, eggs, baby formula, cookies, chocolate, coffee creamer |
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Where are the candlelight rallies when you need them?
Milk, eggs, baby formula, cookies, chocolate, coffee creamer, protein powder, when will it stop?
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Chinese protein powder contains melamine: DOH
By Shelley Huang
STAFF REPORTER
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008, Page 1
The Department of Health (DOH) said yesterday that protein powder imported from China was found to contain 1.90 parts per million (ppm) to 5.03ppm of melamine.
Health authorities randomly tested 13 batches of protein powder, six of which were contaminated with melamine.
The tainted powder was produced by two companies in China � Jilin Jinyi Egg Products Co Ltd (吉林金翼蛋品有限公司) and Dalian Green Snow Egg Product Co, Ltd (大連綠雪蛋品發展有限公司).
Of the 393 tonnes of protein powder imported from China this year, 261 tonnes imported from Jilin Jinyi and Dalian Green Snow were found to be contaminated with melamine, deputy health minister Cheng Shou-hsia (鄭守夏) said at a press conference yesterday.
Protein powder is used in the food industry as a legal food additive |
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2008/10/29/2003427214
The Chinese are poisoning the world, including little babies. Why aren't the Koreans protesting, like they did with the fictional mad cow scare?
Are Koreans, perhaps, racists?
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EzeWong
Joined: 26 Mar 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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This question has been brought up before,
I forgot what the general consensus was on the topic, but personally I do believe there does exist an Asian bias. Not racist reasons but rather diplomatic ones.
China is a neighboring superpower known to be belligerent and very nonchalant about seeking vengance in foreign matters... And they honestly do not care much what the media has to say about them, as the PRC controls it internally. America is more diplomatic with relations, is less apt to do something whereas China may go as far as tariffs, etc.
Not to mention that these violations occur with companies in the case of the chinese baby formula. Madcow situation occured with American government involvement which makes the case for actually rioting more substaintial. |
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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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November 1, 2008
China Widens Food Tests on Signs of New Safety Risks
By DAVID BARBOZA
SHANGHAI � Chinese regulators are widening their investigation into contaminated food amid growing signs that the toxic industrial chemical melamine has leached into the nation�s animal feed supplies, posing health risks to consumers.
The announcement came after food safety tests earlier this week found that eggs produced in three different provinces in China were contaminated with melamine, which is blamed for causing kidney stones and renal failure in infants. The tests have led to recalls of eggs and consumer warnings.
The reports are another serious blow to China�s agriculture industry, which is already struggling to cope with its worst food safety scandal in decades after melamine-tainted milk supplies sickened over 50,000 children, caused at least four deaths and led to global recalls of goods produced with Chinese dairy products earlier this fall.
The cases are fueling global concerns about Chinese food. In Hong Kong, food safety officials announced this week that they would begin testing a wider variety of foods for melamine, including vegetables, flour and meat products. On the mainland, Shanghai and other cities are moving aggressively to test a wide variety of food products for melamine, including fish and livestock feed, according to the state-run news media, which has in recent days carried multiple reports on melamine in animal feed....
Still, if eggs, milk and animal feed supplies are tainted, there is the specter of an even wider array of foods that could come under scrutiny, everything from pork and chicken supplies to bread, biscuits, eggs, cakes, seafood and candy.
China is also one of the world�s largest exporters of food and food ingredients, including meats, seafood, beverages and vitamins....
Some food-safety experts are perplexed as to how melamine was allowed to seep into China�s food supplies after melamine-tainted animal feed exports from China were blamed last year for sickening dogs and cats in the United States, touching off international trade and food safety disputes between the two countries.
�A year ago, everybody should have been in a complete panic about it, and done something then,� said Marion Nestle, a professor of food studies and public health at New York University and the author of �Pet Food Politics� (University of California Press, 2008), which examines the pet food problem in detail. �Someone should have required that melamine not be in any food product.�
The pet food case led to a vast recall in the United States and other parts of the world and also sparked a lengthy food safety crackdown in China, with regulators boasting that they had closed down thousands of illegal or substandard food factories and slaughterhouses.
Still, the Chinese government never made clear last year or even this year how extensively it had tested its own food and feed supply for melamine, even though melamine dealers acknowledged it was common to sell melamine scrap into the food and feed market....
�Before the Sanlu scandal, we were not banned from selling melamine to anyone� Niu Qinglin, manager of the Hebei Jinglong Fengli Chemical Co., said in a telephone interview Friday. �I had heard melamine dealers sell melamine to animal feed companies and food companies; it was common before the Sanlu scandal.�...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/world/asia/01china.html?hp=&pagewanted=all
What else is in Chinese food? What else is wrong with Chinese products and medicines? Are we all guinea pigs? |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| So does this mean all those protein shake mixes are tainted as well? |
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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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Chinese shoppers shocked by tainted food scandal
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Consumers in Beijing's malls and shops are shunning the milk and poultry sections -- for good reasons.
They are shocked and scared by the news headlines: some food produced in China is tainted with melamine.
"Of course I'm worried," says a woman shopping in Nanxiaojie Market. Stop eating eggs? "That's not possible," she tells CNN. "If there's a problem with eggs, it should be solved fundamentally."
Chinese premier Wen Jiabao says China will take steps to win back consumers.
"We will use our actions and high quality of our food products to win the trust and confidence of Chinese people and people around the world," he told reporters at the end of a two-day summit of Asian and European leaders in Beijing last weekend. Watch more about the tainted food scandal �
"Three minister-level officials have resigned and a government investigation is going on. Whoever is responsible must be brought to justice. We need to protect the Made in China brand," said Chinese analyst Victor Gao.
But the problem could be more pervasive. The state-run Nanfang Daily published an investigative story saying that adding melamine into animal feed has become an "open secret."
The report said adding melamine into feed started in the aquatic farming industry five years ago, as a way of faking higher protein levels. Learn more about chemical melamine �
It then spread into other agro-industries such as poultry. Even more shocking is the allegation that the melamine added is from industrial waste material.
CNN contacted the Ministry of Agriculture about the story, but got no immediate response.
Two years ago, reports revealed pet food exported from China to the United States was spiked with melamine and had sickened and killed dogs.
Several weeks ago, the food scandal spread to milk, biscuits and candies. Now, it is tainted eggs. So far, no illnesses or deaths have been linked to eggs.
Tests in Hong Kong last week showed eggs exported by a Chinese company are contaminated with excessive levels of melamine.
In recent days three other brands of eggs have also been found to contain the chemical.
Small wonder egg sales at the Xinfadi, a wholesale market in Beijing, dropped by 10 percent this week, according to the state-run China Daily.
Chinese officials say the source of the problem is melamine, an industrial chemical used to produce plastics and fertilizer. Melamine is high in nitrogen. |
more:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/10/31/melamine.china/ |
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Eedoryeong
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 6:20 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps one good thing to come out of all this is that it could make a larger international transition to veganism - or vegetarianism - more attractive.
Wait a sec- What's that?
http://www.china.org.cn/business/2008-11/01/content_16698484.htm
D-OH!! Spoke too soon!! LOL!!
Pity about the domestic farmers.
An interesting snippet, this is: "Science articles began to appear on the Internet to explain the flies and to persuade the audience to accept the fruit again."
How apt that wording is, given how, coincidentally, much of Chinese product PR is such a song and dance. I picture some government officials with hats and canes...
'Come on woncha buy
Come on woncha buy
Woncha buy some oran-GEH-SSSss!
(Don't make me shoot ya!)
Yeah!
One question I'm sure has come up (but nobody discusses aloud in China) is exactly from whence doth come the credibility on which to base a request for listening to their persuasion? The way they've dealt with problems in exports?
I do pity the domestic market farmers. But perhaps in a way it's good things are unfolding as they are. Maybe when the words 'Made In China' come to mean that even locals won't buy stuff from each other, will the government then reconsider its positions on product quality management, environmental standard policing, forthcoming disclosure in future PR, and a policy of honesty and due diligence in general.
Nah. Probably not. Thus goes the economic rise of China. |
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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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China is shocked! Shocked!
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Melamine Concerns Widen | Print | E-mail
Written by Denise Behreandt
Monday, 03 November 2008 18:32
In the last several weeks, Romer Labs, an international diagnostic testing lab for the agricultural, food, and feed industries, discovered 30 samples of animal feed to be contaminated with melamine, sourced from China. Melamine is a toxic chemical that is found in plastics, adhesives, and pesticides. Since melamine contains high levels of nitrogen, it is added to food products to make it appear as though those products have higher levels of protein than they actually contain. Adding melamine to food ingredients and products allows China to misrepresent the protein content of food while lowering their production costs.
In early March 2007, many Americans were devastated when their pets became ill or died from pet food that was contaminated with melamine from China. Nearly 100 brands of pet food were recalled. A month later, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) news release indicated that "the ongoing investigation [was] tracing products distributed since August 2006."
But the practice of adding melamine to food products in China goes back more than a decade. In April 2007, CBS News and the Associated Press interviewed Wang Jianhui, the manager of a feed company in the city of Shijiazhuang. Wang pointed out that Chinese producers had been using melamine for years. "We've been running the melamine feed business for about 15 years and receiving positive responses from our customers," Wang said. "Our products are very safe, for sure," he emphasized, according to the report.
Later in the same report, another Chinese businessman indicated that there had been no attempts to stop Chinese companies from adding the poisonous chemical to food. "As far as I know," Ji Denghui, manager of the Sanming Dinghui Chemical Trading Company, told reporters, "there are no rules or regulations that make this illegal." Although China placed a ban in 2007 on melamine in food products exported to the United States, China denies blame for any pet deaths or illnesses.
Awareness of the scope of melamine contamination in food products traced to China grew in 2008 when news that tens of thousands of infants in China had been sickened by contaminated milk powder. Four children died while thousands of others were treated for melamine related kidney disorders. As a result, in the United States on October 10, 2008, the FDA issued an alert stating: "The U.S. and other countries have been sampling and testing infant formula, milk-derived ingredients, and finished food products containing milk. Information received from a number of sources, and from a number of different countries, indicates a wide range and variety of products, such as candies, desserts, and beverages, have been found to be contaminated with melamine. To date, FDA testing has found melamine contamination in multiple products imported from China."
While the United States has continued to import food products from China, the communist government in Beijing has in the past been quick to slap sanctions on U.S. producers. On December 25, 2003, China placed a ban on imports of U.S. beef and beef-related products after a U.S. cow was reported with mad cow disease. According to Li Changjiang, head of the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), "Such imported goods, as well as their producers, will be put on the blacklist or even publicized in the mass media if necessary." This, despite the fact that the incident was exceedingly rare, the United States quickly recalled 10,000 pounds of beef, and the risk to consumers was practically zero since no brain or spinal cord tissues � where mad cow is carried � were involved.
Despite this, it wasn't until June 29, 2006 that China lifted the ban and resumed beef imports from the United States. Yet, despite the deaths and illnesses from the contamination of animal feed, toothpaste, the drug heparin, and human food, "the FDA declared on October 3 that food products with levels of the industrial chemical below 2.5 ppm pose little risk."
This means that Americans may still be exposed to a melamine-laced food supply, a fact not lost on at least one member of Congress. "By not insisting on a zero-tolerance policy with melamine," Rep. Rosa DeLaura (D-Conn.) stated, "FDA is failing to protect consumers." |
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/483
Round up the usual suspects, and get back to business as usual. |
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