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[Scampi]

And this is why I won't eat food from China and you shouldn't either

 

https://www.theguard...ort-cooking-oil

 

https://www.washingt...il-food-safety/

 

https://www.cnn.com/...-hnk/index.html

[HillBilly]

Thanks for posting!!! That's unbelievable!!!  

[Slab]

[jfrey123]

Not to mention their big problem with "gutter oil" for cooking...

 

In China, the potential for harnessing the power of waste cooking oil | Yale Environment Review

 

Edit:  Slab beat me to it while I was looking for a link lol

Edited by jfrey123, 11 July 2024 - 02:54 PM.

[SQFconsultant]

Yes, lots of horror stuff. 

 

However, with the removal of the CCP and clean up on aisle 9 for elimination of the K-Mafia an Deep State from China we should see massive improvements during the next 5 years.

 

Also, we will see more and more sourcing to our own home - countries plus with atomization generators, well I'm getting ahead of myself - but I have so enjoyed being in a group of people looking to the future using the possibilities of today and the future  based on our new world that is unfolding as I type this.

 

We will see much more non-international sourcing in the near term, heck our company is planning on growing a certain type of fruit that up until now has only been grown in the China region and sub-tropical areas and our eco-chamber growing building will be located in New England.

 

By the way in my younger days I worked in a restaurant when I was about 14 I open a #10 can of pickled mustard greens and out pops wound up rolls of rubber that had tire tread on them - they were inceasing weight and decreasing product weight - from China of course.

 

I did like the story I heard from a chef friend in China who said, you know those candies they wrap in what looks like a strawberry wrapper and give out for free at restaurants - I said yes, I like those --- he said they are not made in a factory, they are made in people bathtubs all over one province here on a co-op basis -- yup, never ate one again.

[MDaleDDF]

Yes, lots of horror stuff. 

 

However, with the removal of the CCP and clean up on aisle 9 for elimination of the K-Mafia an Deep State from China we should see massive improvements during the next 5 years.

 

Also, we will see more and more sourcing to our own home - countries plus with atomization generators, well I'm getting ahead of myself - but I have so enjoyed being in a group of people looking to the future using the possibilities of today and the future  based on our new world that is unfolding as I type this.

 

We will see much more non-international sourcing in the near term, heck our company is planning on growing a certain type of fruit that up until now has only been grown in the China region and sub-tropical areas and our eco-chamber growing building will be located in New England.

 

By the way in my younger days I worked in a restaurant when I was about 14 I open a #10 can of pickled mustard greens and out pops wound up rolls of rubber that had tire tread on them - they were inceasing weight and decreasing product weight - from China of course.

 

I did like the story I heard from a chef friend in China who said, you know those candies they wrap in what looks like a strawberry wrapper and give out for free at restaurants - I said yes, I like those --- he said they are not made in a factory, they are made in people bathtubs all over one province here on a co-op basis -- yup, never ate one again.

Awwwwww MAN,   I liked those too!   Lol.  

Goodbye strawberry candies.......

[MDaleDDF]

my cousin and his chinese wife just moved back to the states, and I asked them what they miss most about china, and ironically, they both immediately said "the food"....

[Seathalos]

To be completely honest, these types of issues still happen state side. Especially with smaller producers that only see food safety as a cost and by just cooking the books. There is also the fact that China was a developing country for most of the last 75 years being used by US corporations as a cheap producer compared to State side production. The issue isn't with China itself but the idea of cutting cost as much as possible. The worst part is they have many amenities that the US being the richest country in the world can only dream of. I personally chock these issues up to China having to go through the same growing pains the US did during the Gilded age and Pre-FSMA periods of food safety.  

 

Deregulation of the food industry, like any other deregulated industry before it, will lead to far more harm than good as major corporations try to cut corners as much as possible. Depending on what changes happen and if Customers lighten their requirements we could easily have another Parnell situation. 

[Scampi]

Here's yet one more example of why the FDA needs stronger teeth

 

https://www.foodsafe...n 2023 and 2024.

 

Warning letters are useless and quaker has now lost me as a customer for life

[Seathalos]

Here's yet one more example of why the FDA needs stronger teeth

 

https://www.foodsafe...n 2023 and 2024.

 

Warning letters are useless and quaker has now lost me as a customer for life

Completely understandable, If only bosses and execs had an understanding that you need a customer base if you want to make a profit. And cutting corners in the safety of someone's food is the easiest way to loose it.

[Tflex]

Here's yet one more example of why the FDA needs stronger teeth

 

https://www.foodsafe...n 2023 and 2024.

 

Warning letters are useless and quaker has now lost me as a customer for life

What a joke. This wouldn't fly with the NVWA (Dutch FDA).

 

What impact will the overturning of Chevron have on general food safety in the US?

Edited by Tflex, Yesterday, 07:44 AM.

[Seathalos]

What a joke. This wouldn't fly with the NVWA (Dutch FDA).

 

What impact will the overturning of Chevron have on general food safety in the US?

More than likely will lead to the FDA and other regulatory bodies having a far longer turnaround period of needed regulations. And/or a potential of loss of major regulations that we have in place leading to our food to have far lower safety and quality as companies cut cost. We already have companies trying to skirt the bare bone regulations we have in the US we don't need to encourage it. (there is a reason why Europeans gain a ton of weight and health issues while in the states without changing their habits. Then lose it all once they go back).

 

Honest a reason, among many others, why I am half tempted to look into careers over in the EU.