Is There A Way To Find Out What Food Brands Are Being Shipped Here From China?
Posted by China Sourcing CommentatorJul 28
I am not talking just about, say wheat, or dog food. I am looking for a complete list of items that are being shipped here from China, including brand names. Please list a source. Thanks
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Refused by the FDA in April because they were “filthy”:
salted bean curd cubes in brine with chili and sesame oil
dried apple
dried peach
dried pear
dried round bean curd
dried mushroom
olives
frozen bay scallops
frozen Pacific cod
sardines
frozen seafood mix
fermented bean curd
Among the foods rejected because they were contaminated with pesticides:
frozen eel
ginseng
frozen red raspberry crumble
mushrooms
Frozen catfish was stopped because it was laced with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines were turned away because they were coated with putrefying bacteria.
Toothbrushes were rejected last month because they were improperly labeled. And last week the FDA found Chinese toothpaste contaminated with a chemical used in antifreeze – the same chemical that killed people in Panama last year when it turned up in cough syrup.
Just three days ago, the U.S. warned consumers not to buy or eat imported fish labeled as monkfish, which actually may be puffer fish, containing a potentially deadly toxin called tetrodotoxin. Two people in the Chicago area became ill after consuming homemade soup containing the fish. One was hospitalized due to severe illness.
The FDA is also on the lookout for vegetable proteins contaminated with melamine – the chemical that killed American cats and dogs when it was imported from China in pet food.
In the past year, the FDA rejected more than twice as many food shipments from China as from all other countries combined.
Most of the time, the reason listed is simply “filthy,” the official term used when inspectors smell decomposition or gross contamination of food.
Officials say FDA inspectors examine only a tiny percentage of the food imported from foreign countries – about 1 percent — meaning most of the contaminated products make it inside the country and to the shelves of retailers.