looked like this:
Recall of fish from China recalled because two people poisoned:
The seafood importer began a voluntary recall after reports that two Chicago-area people became ill after eating soup that contained the fish, according to a statement.Not to be paranoid or anything, but does anyone else see a kinda... trend?
The frozen shipments were packed in 22-pound boxes that were sold to wholesalers in California, Illinois and Hawaii beginning in September. Each of the 282 boxes was labeled "Monk fish, gutted and head off, Product of China," the company said.
But the Food and Drug Administration confirmed Thursday that its tests of the fish had found potentially lethal amounts of tetrodotoxin, a substance usually associated with the skin and certain organs of the puffer fish.
"Clearly, we are concerned. We are taking it very seriously," said FDA spokeswoman Kathy McDermott.
The fish recall was the latest in a list of problem products from China, a leading exporter of food and food ingredients.
2 comments:
"Taking it very seriously" is a political response. I do not want them to "take it very seriously." I want them to prevent it from reaching anyone's table. That's what the FDA is for: assuring the safety of foods and medicines. I don't care whom China executes (actually, I'd rather they not execute anyone)... I just want adequate inspection at some point in the process, before imported food reaches my table.
Otherwise... what mapaghimagsik said. We're f*cked.
It ought to be a law that we make every politician enlist their first born for any war they support, and every FDA inspector eat a little bit of all the food incoming through the ports....
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