Chinese Death Milk Still Unaccounted For – Check Your Powdered Milk

Posted on July 9, 2010
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One of the biggest problems with globalization is the inability to control the quality of imported food being consumed by American citizens. A huge percentage of our food supply now comes from countries like China where quality controls are lax and border on criminally negligent. The Chinese people may be content eating dirty cardboard soaked in wesson oil but I really don’t want it in my families diet.

If you cannot purchase your food from a local farmers market at the very least reject any thing not grown and processed in America.  There is no reason for America to import food products. The United States is the breadbasket of the world and for China to produce food cheaper they had to cut cost in safety and sanitation.  Plus do you really want your children drinking milk processed by slave laborers.

Between the diseased processing facilities in China and genetically modified plants tainting our natural food supply it is a wonder we are not already dead.

Chinese officials have found 76 tons of milk powder and dairy products laced with a deadly industrial chemical in at least three provinces that was apparently left over from a milk scandal in 2008 that killed six babies and sickened hundreds of thousands.

The discovery shows that toxic milk remains a danger in China despite a crackdown in which dozens of people were arrested and two — a dairy farmer and a milk salesmen — were executed for producing or selling toxic milk.

State media and food safety experts said the recently seized melamine-tainted powder was probably produced in or before 2008 and stockpiled instead of destroyed. China ordered tens of thousands of tainted milk products burned or buried after more than 300,000 children were sickened and at least six died from the contamination. But, crucially, the government did not carry out the destruction itself.

“It is crucial to account for the amount that was contaminated back in 2008 and make sure it is being destroyed or disposed of safely,” said Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, a World Health Organization senior scientist on food safety based in Beijing. “As long as part of it is still not accounted for or destroyed properly we will unfortunately see these types of things happening again.”

Tainted batches were also found earlier this year in Shanghai and the provinces of Shaanxi, Shandong, Liaoning and Hebei, prompting a 10-day emergency crackdown with inspection teams fanning out to 16 provinces.

Melamine is added to watered-down milk to make it appear rich in protein in quality tests that measure nitrogen, found in both melamine and protein. Health problems from the chemical include kidney stones and kidney damage.

The official Xinhua News Agency reported that the latest discovery occurred in June when authorities found 64 tons of raw materials for making milk powder and 12 tons of finished powder tainted with melamine at a factory in the far-western province of Qinghai. In a separate case, also in June, authorities seized about 1,000 packets of tainted milk powder in the northeastern province of Jilin, Xinhua said.

A spokesman for the National Food Safety Regulating Work Office told Xinhua that the owner and two others at the Dongyuan Dairy Factory had been arrested, along with a person accused of supplying milk powder.

Read Full Article Here: China finds more milk tainted with deadly chemical – Health – msnbc.com.

Goats produce a fine milk that does not require pasteurization and is a great barter item. A couple of nanny goats would graze happily on the grass growing behind your McMansion…plus keep the yard mowed. Don’t buy the poison coming from China. Grow your own food and raise your own livestock. Your family will be healthier.

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