And here is the ever expanding list:
"From steroid-spiked pork to glow-in-the-dark meat to recycled cooking oil collected from sewers, a series of illnesses and scandals linked to tainted food has put officials on guard. But tougher measures have had little effect amid an official culture of secrecy."
Watermelons spiked with growth chemicals explode in the fields... so the farmers feed the forchlorfenuron saturated melons to fish and pigs.
Waste water forced into pigs going to market.
Fresh milk tainted with melamine and toxic substances extracted from leather scraps... killed 6 children in China and sickened 300,000.
Rice is contaminated with heavy metals like cadmium.
Fake rice made from plastic, potatoes and resin.
Pulverized lime added to bleaching agents widely used in flour production. Pulverized lime damages the lungs and the entire respiratory system.
Cadmium in children's toys and little girl jewelry. Lead in toys: Thomas the Tank Engine, baby bibs, cub scout badges, wooden blocks. Formaldehyde in candy, in baby clothing. Coma-inducing date rape drug in toys.
Asbestos in toys.
"The rampant use of chemical additives in animal feed can be traced to 1999. According to Gao Yinxiang, the research and development of high-protein feed additives was a hot field among scientists about 10 years ago due to shortage of animal fodder in the country at the time.
From that time, it's hard to define the exact role that scientists played in the evolution of the melamine scandal. Yet scientists certainly contributed to it by developing unsafe protein alternatives. Many Chinese are now calling on scientists to examine their conscience before making profits at the expense of public safety."
Melamine in pet food kills house pets in the US. Melamine is found in wheat, corn and rice gluten.
China says no to inspections and destroys evidence.
Rat poison in breakfast porridge.
Pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish contaminated with salmonella. Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides.
Toothpaste with diethylene glycol, a toxic chemical used in engine coolants.
Highly toxic puffer fish sold as monk fish.
Fake blood protein.
Wild mice used for meat.
Defective tires.
Use of illegal drift nets.
Fake kosher food.
Insecticide-tainted dumplings.
More than 40 percent of drinking water in rural China is unfit for drinking.
Poisoned chocolate.
Toxic drywall which caused houses to be uninhabitable.
Fake Cisco routers
Misuse and overuse of antibiotics. "Studies in China show a "frightening" increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also know as MRSA."
The list will inevitably be added to. When are we going to learn this is what happens to corporations when there is no regulation?
4 comments:
Stroope's honey is probably unavailable to you, because it is gathered in a region less than 100 mi. from me. But there will be an equivalent brand in your region: local and from a known source. Ask around. (I am responsible for Whole Paycheck's carrying Stroope's here... though I still buy it mainly at a more local grocer.)
Addendum: in one of those ironies almost too good/bad to be true, in the early 1970s, the Stroope family was very nearly put out of business... by the opening of trade with China. Happily, they survived, continuing to sell to people like me who prefer our honey without... stuff... in it.
I'll research it. I know we have some local producers.
For future reference, here is an article in the Los Angeles Times about polluted Chinese honey. Trader Joe's is safe!
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