By Martin Bosworth I’ve been trying to embrace the idea of a Barack Obama presidency. The guy strikes a lot of the right notes–eloquent, charismatic, smart, persuasive, idealistic–and has a lot of […]
Note to China – money’s useless when you’re dead because you made your money by poisoning yourself and every damned body else…
On the heels of the Melamine in pet food and in feed given to chickens comes this FDA warning: “The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China […]
The latest on melamine – it’s in more things, but they’re safe to eat
It’s official – the FDA, the CDC, the DHS, the USDA, and the EPA all worked together to determine that the chickens and pigs that were fed melamine-contaminate feed are safe to […]
Melamine, China, and the peril for emerging markets
In 1993 France instituted the European Banana Regime placing quotas on banana imports from outside of their trade preference agreements with Europe’s old colonial trading partners, the African, Caribbean and Pacific nations. […]
Food contamination: do we risk a trade war with China?
[This is a guest entry by Jim Gwyn, a professional chemist and environmental regulator in North Carolina.] ______________ The expert in your earlier post talking about sulfur in proteins was partially right. […]
Your morning Chinese food contamination update: new developments, widening crisis
UPDATE: – BREAKING: Americans ate 3 million melamine-tainted chickens! In a conference call with media this afternoon, USDA Assistant Administrator Kenneth Petersen revealed that as many as 3 million chickens, contaminated with […]
Melamine story gets worse and worse
The melamine-spiking story continues to build, and so far nothing about it offers any reason for comfort. HorsesAss offers a mortifying blow-by-blow here, and after reading it you have to wonder not […]
Food contamination investigation expands: how trustworthy is the fox guarding the henhouse?
UPDATE: Now the FDA is investigating whether melamine may have gotten into … wait for it … baby food. It started out as a pet food contamination crisis – dozens of dog […]
