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Are people finally waking up about buying things outside of USA health regulations?
"If you are a seafood lover and wish that you could eat more fish raised on pig feces, your dreams are coming true. Due to fierce compe ion in the Chinese tilapia industry, farmers are increasingly switching to feces instead of commercial feed. From the article: "At Chen Qiang’s tilapia farm in Yangjiang city in China’s Guangdong province, which borders Hong Kong, Chen feeds fish partly with feces from hundreds of pigs and geese. That practice is dangerous for American consumers, says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety. 'The manure the Chinese use to feed fish is frequently contaminated with microbes like salmonella,' says Doyle, who has studied foodborne diseases in China."
Are people finally waking up about buying things outside of USA health regulations?
did you read the article?
Yes? Your point?
Dirty ice/tub practices, lack of records, etc. That hasn't changed.
Every shipment of imported food has to be registered with the FDA.
But looks like the FDA can't possibly check all of these shipments (2.7% per the article).
My point is you won't see any "non-compliant with US health regulations" on any package. Most of these stuff gets repackaged here and sold.
Are you finally becoming aware of these things?
All imports only get spot checked.
The feeding of feces isn't new.
This is all regular practices.
Wake up...
I sure wasn't aware. How do you spot them when you buy your seafood?
lol FDA
It's impossible. It's not only seafood. It's all food!
Consider this however. Tilapia is a mixed type feeder fish. Like catfish, it will bottom-feed. That means part of it's natural diet in the wild is feces as well.
With your worries, are you also a hypochondriac?
You want to provide more jobs?
Demand 100% inspection of all imported good. Even if it's not food, justification can be to make sure terrorists are bringing in nukes!
"Demand 100% inspection of all imported good."
and I bet you want it unfunded AND privatized!
eg:
For-Profit Inspectors Approve Food That Sickens Millions Of Americans A Year
The Food and Drug Administration inspected just 6 percent of the nation’s food producers in 2011, and it has no rules governing third-party inspectors or how often producers should be inspected, according to Bloomberg News. For-profit inspection services often examine “only those areas their clients ask them to review,” and as a result, they often miss sickening and potentially deadly pathogens that infect food that will hit supermarket shelves:
What for-hire auditors do is cloaked in secrecy; they don’t have to make their findings public. Bloomberg Markets obtained four audit reports and three audit certificates through court cases, congressional investigations and company websites.
Six audits gave sterling marks to the cantaloupe farm, an egg producer, a peanut processor and a ground-turkey plant — either before or right after they supplied toxic food.
Collectively, these growers and processors were responsible for tainted food that sickened 2,936 people and killed 43 in 50 states.
The GOP has fought efforts to fully fund an overhaul of the nation’s food safety laws, signed by Obama in 2011, cutting funding to the FDA, USDA, and other programs even as food safety outbreaks hit meat, poultry, and produce industries across the country. Foodborne illness rates are on the rise, according to the CDC, but Republicans cut $700 million from Obama’s requested FDA budget, which included funding for the Food Safety Modernization Act. The House GOP’s farm bill, which never passed, also included cuts to food safety.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...ricans-a-year/
More than 3,000 Americans died last year from contaminated food. More than 48 million Americans were sickened as a result of foodborne illnesses—more than twelve percent on the nation became sick as a result of something they ate. Those numbers rose by 10 percent between 2006 and 2010. To date, there have been more than 30 FDA recalls so far this year (including pet food).
http://www.organicauthority.com/blog...=Google+Reader
It's 100% organic.
If you want to worry about Chinese tilapia don't worry about what they eat. worry about the heavy metal and toxin laden water they are raised in.
Soooooo, the board libertarian is for MORE regulation. Not necessarily saying I disagree, but I also am not the board libertarian advocating for forced sterilization and more regualtion.
BTW, the tilapia don't actually eat the poop. The poop stimulates/feeds algae growth and the tilapia eat the algae.
industrial waste of chickens feathers and bones are feed to VEGETARIAN cows, who, like most greasebag, comatose Americans, will eat anything.
so they're starting to feed the fish with what they themselves eat on their own meals everyday?
This is the same feed you vegans give your plants. Minerals are minerals, it's not like their bodies don't take what it needs. Don't eat Tilapia, problem solved.
I catch my own Tilapia in local waters. They eat hydrilla and other aquatic plants and whatever else falls into the water. Be the hunter/gatherer men you are and stop worrying about what the Chinese are sending.
As Meningitis Outbreak Spreads, FDA Implores Congress To Strengthen Safety Regulations
Since the thousands of U.S. pharmacies across the country that practice compounding — an attempt to keep down prescription costs by recombining medications and repackaging them for sale — do not technically count as drug manufacturers, the FDA currently has no authority to oversee them to ensure that their compounded drugs meet the agency’s safety guidelines. On a call with reporters, FDA officials said they expect lawmakers to recognize the need for additional regulations that will empower the agency to oversee this often-overlooked area of the pharmaceutical industry:
The outbreak resulted from contaminated vials traced to a compounding pharmacy in Framingham, Massachusetts that mixed the drug and sold it to 75 hospitals and pain clinics in 23 states. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will work with Congress to create new regulations allowing the agency to better oversee the actions of such pharmacies in the future, said Deborah Autor, a deputy commissioner at the agency.
“We want to sit down with pharmacists and lawmakers and think about a scheme that recognizes that the industry and practice of pharmacy have evolved over time, and put in place a risk-based scheme,” said Autor, of the FDA’s global regulatory operations and policy unit, on the call. [...]
The outbreak highlights the need to ensure product safety, [Todd Weber, who is overseeing the federal probe for the Centers for Disease Control] said on the conference call. “We want patients to be confident that they’re not going to get a potentially devastating disease as a result of their care,” he said.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012...break-spreads/
My bet is that Repugs will block any funding and regulations that would increase citizen safety for we-sell-pure- BigFood, BigAg, BigPharma, saying "we don't it and it would raise prices for The American People"! (and reduce profits for corporate America). iow, Repugs would rather have dead, diseased, maimed American People rather than touch corporate profits.
Having convinced mothers that corporate synthetic formula is better for babies than mother milk (sucking on breasts! "Christians" abhor the thought), the US corps import formula and animal food from China (no FDA there!) with melamine. Relax, melamine is good for ya!
Last edited by boutons_deux; 10-12-2012 at 10:27 AM.
@ boutons and his usual act
chemical industry and food processing industry have the same meaning in chinese dictionaries imho
Well, now you made my point for me.
My concern is with fish that potentially includes things such as salmonella with it. These are farmed fish. It's not like their diet cannot be controlled.
But thanks for confirming you can't really tell them apart.
You can get salmonella from anything that hasn't been handled properly. The diet can't transmit salmonella.
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