Dinner Danger - The Food Safety Scandal....
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It is a warning about The Food Safety Scandal… quick read; worth noting.
The
segment on imported fish is especially graphic as is the comment about some imported veggies from Mexico irrigated by sewer water.
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Which countries are most responsible for exporting tainted food to the U.S.?
“It depends on the food,” says Michael Doyle, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Food Safety, tells Newsmax Health. “Some 90 percent of our fish and seafood is imported, mostly from southeast Asian countries that don’t always use the best sanitary practices.”
For example, one of the most popular fishes consumed in the U.S. – tilapia – often comes from fish farms in China. “
These fish are frequently fed raw manure, which is associated with health issues such as salmonella bacteria,” Dr. Doyle says.
For many years, China also tolerated producers who added a chemical called melamine to their food products. Melamine artificially inflates the level of protein in the fish, which increases its monetary value. But it also sickened hundreds of thousands of children worldwide.
Even though the Chinese government finally banned the use of melamine in food products, the FDA recently issued six import rejections of soy protein from China because it was contaminated with melamine, according to Dr. Doyle.
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