Is China the worst offender?
20 08 2007The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released data showing that India and Mexico have worse records than our flavor of the month: China.
The US FDA figures show a total of 1,763 food shipments rejected from India, 1,480 shipments from Mexico and 1,368 shipments from China in year ended June 2007.
Some of India’s spices and seafood contained salmonella while Mexico’s seafood, chili and cheese were found unsafe to eat. China presented a scenario similar to Mexico on seafood, bean curd (tofu) and noodles.
We can’t really tell the amount of rejected product since the FDA didn’t release this data, so it could have been a 1k box or an entire container load. I think we should also put into perspective the amount of product exported into the USA from each country in order to give this analysis a bit more relevance.
Fourth on the list was Dominican Republic followed by Denmark, Vietnam, Japan, Italy and Indonesia, all of them having rejected product either for sanitary or for mislabeling reason.
Something to think about…
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In Denmarks case the problem was that the labels on some candy
were the original Danish labels correctly listed all the ingredients in
Danish, so they were in no way mislabeled.
They were however not labelled in English in accordance with FDA regulations.