Re: corrupt government lets in corrupted food

[Guest guest]

I'm surprised this article didn't mention soy. According to the FDA's "Dear Colleague"

Letter to the United States Food Manufacturing Industry, Regarding

Melamine":

"In addition, it would be useful for manufacturers to be alert to the

possibility that non-milk-derived ingredients from China that are or

may be sold on the basis of protein content, such as soy protein, also

could be contaminated with melamine."

Naomi

Gordon S. wrote:

A third mistake has to do

with the FDA's tendency to regulate finished products at the expense of

raw materials. By choosing to monitor the safety of imported food items

instead of the ingredients that go into them, the FDA not only ignores

the intricate nature of global food production but opens the door for

Chinese wheat gluten, rice gluten, and milk powder to enter the U.S.

food supply without the benefit of stringent regulation. To make

matters worse, our so-called "country of origin" labeling laws don't

apply to individual ingredients in packaged food products. It might

seem unwieldy to require a separate label for each foreign ingredient

in a can of soup, but the inconvenience would force the FDA to protect

our food supply at its most vulnerable points.