The supply of filthy foods contaminated with pesticides and tainted with carcinogens, bacteria, and banned drugs which are unfit for human consumption has alarmed the Americans. A few weeks ago, news of the Chinese pet food scam aroused doubts and concerns about the quality of food products imported from China. Questions and concerns are creeping up. Could these items slowly become weapons of mass destruction? Could this be a Chinese way of unleashing terror against the Americans?
The Americans are really concerned as huge volume of food imports are being rejected by the FDA labelling them as poisonous and unfit for human consumption. A lot of the rejected shipments include poisonous fruits and highly contaminated meat posing risks of cancer in humans. The FDA has tightened food safety measures and is inspecting every food shipment imported from China. The United States has already recalled huge volumes of its Chinese import. Reports say the FDA rejected a huge volume of shipments, precisely 289, from China containing contaminated foods. The food items that were rejected as filthy, highly contaminated and poisonous include:
Salted bean curd cubes in brine with chili and sesame oil
Dried apple
Dried peach
Dried pear
Dried round bean curd
Dried mushroom
Olives
Frozen bay scallops
Frozen Pacific cod
Sardines
Frozen seafood mix
Fermented bean curd
Frozen eel
Ginseng
Frozen red raspberry crumble
Mushrooms
Toothpaste made in China was rejected by the FDA last month. The FDA found the toothpaste contaminated with a chemical used in antifreeze. Frozen catfish was found to be highly contaminated with banned antibiotics. And scallops and sardines were coated with putrefying bacteria.
The explosive growth of the Chinese economy in recent years, the volume of food market that China controls, and recent reports about rampant malpractices in certain Chinese industries has slowly become a threat. With China exercising almost a monopoly on the food import market, their supply of tainted food products have raised huge concerns in the United States. The supply of fake drugs, contaminated vegetable protein, poisoned food items, and cancerous meat has put the FDA on high alert.