Thread: China Bans Meat Products from U.S. Companies

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Chinese food inspectors have banned meat products from seven U.S. companies from being imported into their country after finding a range of contamination issues in shipments checked on Saturday, according to China's official news agency Xinhua.


Food inspectors carry out tests on products in Beijing.

The suspension of meat imports from the American companies -- including Tyson Foods -- comes just weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would hold all farm-raised catfish, basa, shrimp, dace and eel shipments arriving from China until they are tested for residues from drugs not approved by the U.S. for use in farm-raised fish.

Xinhua quoted the head of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine calling the FDA action "unacceptable," and warning that "China, too, detects many substandard food products from the U.S."

It was not immediately clear if China's ban extended to all products from the seven companies or just those specific products on a list published on the agency's Web site that it said were found on Saturday to contain salmonella, feed additives and veterinary drugs.

In addition to Tyson Foods, the companies on the list include Sanderson Farms, Intervision Foods, AJC International, Cargill Meat Solutions, Van Luin Foods USA and "Thumph Foods," which Xinhua said most likely is Missouri-based Triumph Foods.

While the suspension period for the latter three companies is specified to be 45 days, the length of suspension was not given for the first four on the list, Xinhua said.

The products the Chinese agency said were found to be tainted include frozen chicken from Tyson, frozen chicken feet from Sanderson Farms, frozen pork from AJC International, frozen pork breast bone from Cargill, frozen pig ears from Van Luin Foods, frozen chicken feet from Intervision and salted pig intestines from Triumph.

It was also not immediately known how much of those products are normally imported into China from the U.S. E-mail to a friend

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My wife refuses to buy anything Tyson because they use illegals.....when they can get away with it!!!!

Another strong arm retribution tactic by China. The question now is, will our federal government back down under pressure from the U.S. meat industry and allow China to continue poisoning us? I honestly suspect the pressure will be forthcoming.

I think it's outrageous that we're dealing with a communist country in the first place! By deceased grandparents and great-grandparents, bless their soul, would absolutely roll over in their grave if they knew what this country has been reduced to in the years since thier death. Yes, there was a time this country would never have considered trade with a communist country. Greedy corporations and pandering politicians have reduced patriotism in this country to an all time low.

We need Duncan Hunter in the White House NOW!

This is what we get for depending on the Chinese. They don't care about us. This is in retribution to all the problems they've been having and people not wanting to buy their products.

Originally Posted by Dagmar

This is what we get for depending on the Chinese. They don't care about us. This is in retribution to all the problems they've been having and people not wanting to buy their products.

Adding insult to injury they are financing the trillions of dollars of debt we are now in. They are in a position to screw us royally anytime they so desire. We can thank the current idiot in office masquerading as President for that as well.

WhatMattersMost wrote:

Adding insult to injury they are financing the trillions of dollars of debt we are now in.

What's worse than that is our trade deficit with China is financing their military build up. People need to wake up to the fact that China is a threat to us in more ways than one.

Originally Posted by MW

WhatMattersMost wrote:

Adding insult to injury they are financing the trillions of dollars of debt we are now in.

What's worse than that is our trade deficit with China is financing their military build up. People need to wake up to the fact that China is a threat to us in more ways than one.

ITA. In light of the fact they are in line with countries that hate us, I don't see them having a problem with attacking us with technology they "borrow" from us either.

I am ashamed to say, I know far too many people content to go along with their daily existences and don't want to hear anything regarding the danger we as a nation are facing on so many levels.

They prefer to moan and groan occasionally and then go back to their uninformed delusions of security and business as usual. Believe it or not these are people in their 40's and 50-'s.

They do not need US meat



As tasty as a truckload of rats
Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:13AM EDT
BEIJING (Reuters) - Live rats are being trucked from central China, suffering a plague of a reported 2 billion rodents displaced by a flooded lake, to the south to end up in restaurant dishes, Chinese media reported.

Rats had been doing a roaring trade thanks to strong supply over the last two weeks, the China News Service quoted vendors as saying.

"Recently there have been a lot of rats... Guangzhou people are rich and like to eat exotic things, so business is very good," it quoted a vendor as saying, referring to the capital of Guangdong province, where people are reputed to eat anything that moves.

Some vendors, who declined to reveal their names, had asked people from a village in Hunan province, near Dongting Lake, to sell them live rats, the Beijing News said Monday.

"The buyers offered 6 yuan for a kg, but as to where they will sell the rats, they would not say," the newspaper quoted a local resident as saying, adding that villagers had to catch the rats alive.

"If we want to do that, there is no problem. We could catch 150 kg of rats in one night...but we will not do this against our conscience," the villager was quoted as saying.

Some Guangdong restaurants were promoting "rat banquets," charging 136 yuan ($1 for one kg of rat meat, the newspaper said.

But the restaurants denied their rats came from Hunan.

Local governments in Hunan have been grappling with the rats, which had already destroyed 1.6 million hectares (6,200 sq miles) of crops and could spread disease, according to media reports.

A lack of snakes, also a popular dish in the south, and owls, a traditional Chinese medicine, was held partly responsible.

Chinese media reported last week that some Internet users from Guangdong had offered rat recipes as a way to deal with the problem.

Scientists have also blamed China's massive Three Gorges Dam project and climate change for the Hunan rodents' flight to dry land.


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