We Interrupt This Election
To remind you of something else going on in the world:
New testing has found melamine tainting in another 31 brands of Chinese milk powder.
The new testing follows earlier results showing widespread contamination among infant formula blamed for the deaths of four children and kidney ailments among 54,000 others.
The industrial chemical, which is high in nitrogen, is believed to have been added to watered-down milk to mask the resulting protein deficiency and fool quality tests.
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Meanwhile, Hong Kong authorities said the amount of melamine found in samples of chocolate made at British candy maker Cadbury’s Beijing factory was legally acceptable for human consumption.
Is that milk in your morning coffee? You know where it came from? You sure? You see the cow?
This has already spread so far beyond China—three continents and counting—I wonder if anyone else is thinking about Halloween coming up. One Cadbury bar in the little plastic pumpkin, and I’m calling the hazmat team and the sappers for a remote detonation.
Oh, wait. China bossman Hu Jintao is on top of the situation:
We need to ensure that all products on the market are up to standard, so that consumers don’t have to worry.”
It’s China’s world. We just live here. Wuth kidney stones.
Rob Florida said,
October 1, 2008 @ 9:49 am
There is more to be discovered in the U.S. unfortunately both the FDA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are trying their best to keep this from the public. You can’t even make your own decision on buying or not buying Chinese made food products, because even if the product is made in the U.S. and they use all the ingredients from Communist China, the company can label the product made in the U.S. the Chamber of Commerce has lobbied with the FDA to keep this information from you, and your leaders have sold you out.
It seems that greed has been put above our safety from the FDA, Chamber of Commerce, and our Congressional leaders.