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> On Nov 14, 4:17=A0pm, rst0wxyz <rst0w...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Cheap products" have its hidden prices. =A0Never trust products made
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> > China.
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> > On Nov 14, 11:30=A0am, Jisseigh <jismqu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Flooded for years with toxic lead-laden TOYS and childrens' clothing
> > > im****ted from the Land of The Smelly Yellows, the fed-up Semi-United
> > > States is halting im****ts of toxic MILK products from the world's
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> > > sneaky and dishonest trading partner.
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> > > A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official In Wa****ngton,
> > > D.C., speaking unofficially because, he said, he wants to continue
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> > > feed his family, told a group of incarcerated hippies from Shanghai,
> > > "We can't afford to have our babies sickened and killed due to more
> > > Chinese negligence. =A0What? =A0More than 250,000 dead infants
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> > > over a million others with permanent kidney damage from melamine
> > > products! =A0Our great leader and war-starter Bush says he cannot
> > > tolerate more bad news on top of the worldwide depression that's
> > > happened on his watch."
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> > > The official, who was abruptly and rudely frog-marched away from the
> > > cell by three very heavy men, added, shouting, "Tell the Chinks to
> > > send their ****y milk to Putin in Russia! =A0Those people are so
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> > > all the time that they'll feed their tubercular babies just about
> > > anything!"
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> > > "U.S. Blocks Chinese Milk Products"
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> > > By Annys ****n
> > > Wa****ngton Post Staff Writer
> > > Friday, November 14, 2008; A16
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> > > Federal food safety officials yesterday began holding up ****pments
of
> > > food from China that contain milk or milk-derived ingredients in the
> > > largest effort to date to keep products tainted with the industrial
> > > chemical melamine from reaching U.S. consumers.
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> > > The Food and Drug Administration is requiring im****ters of the
halted
> > > ****pments to test for the chemical, which is used to make plastic
and
> > > fertilizer but has been added to human and animal food to boost
> > > protein readings. The types of products likely to be waylaid are
> > > cookies, candies, and other goods made with milk or milk powder.
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> > > If an im****ter can prove his product is not tainted, FDA will
release
> > > it, said Steve Solomon, the agency's deputy associate commissioner
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> > > compliance and policy. The agency also will step up its testing of
> > > products already on the market.
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> > > FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach and Health and Human Services
> > > Secretary Mike Leavitt are scheduled to travel to China next week to
> > > meet with food safety officials there about melamine and other
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> > > and to open FDA offices in three Chinese cities.
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> > > Since September, FDA officials have recalled several products --
sold
> > > mainly in ethnic grocery stores -- due to possible melamine
> > > contamination. They chose to take broader measures yesterday based
on
> > > the results of product testing and on information from food safety
> > > officials in other countries.
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> > > "We're taking regulatory action to make sure we're controlling these
> > > products," Solomon said. Consuming large amounts can lead to kidney
> > > stones and even death.
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> > > FDA officials said they were taking action despite the small
> > > likelihood that melamine in processed foods is harmful, as was the
> > > case with infant formula in China. At least four infants have died
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> > > tens of thousands more have become sick. "The finished product is
not
> > > going to cause the same adverse affects," Solomon said.
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> > > The FDA recently did a risk *****sment of melamine and concluded
that
> > > for products other than infant formula, levels of melamine below 2.5
> > > parts per million do not raise public health concerns.
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> > > Consumer advocates had a mixed reaction to the FDA's action. "Given
> > > the revelations of the extent of the problem in China, this step is
> > > both precautionary and appropriate," said Caroline Smith DeWaal,
> > > director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public
> > > Interest, a Wa****ngton-based advocacy group. "The question is, did
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> > > wait too long to stop the spigot?"
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> > > Concern over the scope of melamine contamination in the global food
> > > supply has been growing since Chinese officials first acknowledged
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> > > infant formula problem. Since then, melamine has been found in
frozen
> > > yogurt, instant coffee, and chocolates sold in countries such as
> > > Singa****e, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, Yemen, Canada and the
> > > United States. In recent weeks, the chemical has also turned up on
> > > Chinese eggs and in fish feed.
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> > > Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who chairs the appropriations
> > > subcommittee with jurisdiction over the FDA, said the agency should
> > > have acted sooner and included egg and fish products. "Clearly, the
> > > problems involving melamine in China are significantly deeper than
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> > > would have us believe," she said.
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> > > Melamine is officially banned from human and animal food in China.
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> > > prohibition was put in place after last year's recalls of melamine-
> > > tainted pet food and the deaths of thousands of pets in the United
> > > States. Chinese officials have made arrests in the infant formula
> > > scandal and vowed to step up regulation.
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> >
>http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR200.=
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> Without regulatory pressure, there is a race to the bottom.
> Without local production at some level of im****tant
> products and economy and its denizens are subject
> to the whims of others without sufficient options
> to correct problems.
You have heard of:
"Consumers, beware"?
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> Trig-
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