China Food Products On Automatic Detention
17 11 2008The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) took the unusual steps of detaining certain food products from China without physical examination. Taking action against a country is not the norm, generally it is confined to a specific factory or region. In this case, due to the ubiquitous use of melamine in milk they have elected to detain all food products from China containing milk.
In order to have the product come into the country, each shipment will have to be inspected by an outside lab (third party) to prove that it is free of melamine, or the melamine analog. This testing will be an added cost of up to $1000 per shipment.
The FDA has given the written criteria for other methods of clearance by individual factories as outlined in their Alert (click here for FDA Import Alert).
My question is how will China retaliate???
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china14-2008nov14,0,1796913.story
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5152668.ece
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