China Food Safety Can We Eat It?
29 09 2007I have just received an email suggesting that we avoid all processed food from China and then it goes on to show some pictures that supposedly illustrate how dead chickens are collected and then processed to a completed roasted chicken, all done in very unhygienic conditions. Yes it is true that locally some of these things may happen particularly in the hinterland. However being in the frozen food business and buying from China I can state that all facilities that we import from would meet USA standards. They are all inspected by the Chinese government as well as 3rd party audits by credible companies such as AIB.
To suggest that we ban all food from China is ludicrous in my mind. If the importers are doing their due diligence and know the factories they are buying from then food safety and quality are not an issue.
I would suggest to those so inclined to close our doors to China food to look at the FDA recalls and see how many are from China and how many from our own USA food processors. Why is it that we don’t ban all USA processed food as well??
Please check the following sites: http://www.fda.gov/opacom/7alerts.html, and http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/archive.html
How safe is our own food supply? Could we not say the same of our own food that is not fit to eat?
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