Coffee, tea, or Melamine?

[Bluebear]

BEIJING — Two weeks after Chinese companies began recalling infant milk formula because of contamination by an industrial chemical, foods tainted with that chemical — melamine — are turning up in other parts of China and Asia, fanning fears in other parts of the world.

In Hong Kong, Heinz Foods this week recalled its vegetable formula baby cereal after some samples of it tested positive for melamine. In Taiwan, Pizza Hut said it had found cheese packets similarly contaminated. Officials in Macao, a Chinese territory, said Friday that the chemical had turned up in koala-shaped cookies made by a Japanese-owned company. And several African nations moved to ban imports of Chinese dairy products this week.

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that some instant coffee and tea drinks, all containing a nondairy creamer made in China, had been recalled for fear of contamination. It is the first recall in the United States growing out of the melamine scare.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/world/asia/27recall.html?em

[izquierdista]

1. I'm going to start exporting to China

As soon as I can get a commode fitted to the top of a freight container. :hurts:

[Hekate]

2. Bush gutted the FDA. Once upon a time the head of the FDA kept Thalidomide out of this country....

... which protected us from an epidemic of babies born without arms and legs, as happened in Europe.

I hope to God that President Barack Obama is able to clean out and restore our once-proud Civil Service -- it will take the intelligence to appoint dedicated and competent professionals to lead the various departments, it will take money to hire competent people in sufficient numbers, but most of all it will take the belief that THIS IS the function of government.

In the mean time, I -- a dedicated label reader -- can't even get the information I need to make wise choices.

Hekate