We don’t know if this applies to the U.S., but we may be safe in assuming that it does.
ALMOST 300 tonnes of soymeal from China, used to feed organic poultry in western France, were taken off the market on Friday after testing positive for a toxic chemical, an import company said.
The soymeal contained melanine – the chemical at the heart of a scandal in China over contaminated milk – 50 times over the recommended limit.‘One of the three imported batches, was carrying 116mg/kg of melamine, while the average should be 2,5 grammes. All foodstuffs made from the same materials were taken off the market at the beginning of November,’ Mr Christophe Carousse from the French farm cooperative told AFP.
According to the French report, melamine does not build up in the body like dioxin so there is little risk to the public. However
In the wake of the discovery, French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot scheduled health security talks for Wednesday. They will focus on the quality of products imported into France, in particular those from China.
Deliveries from China have been subjected to rigorous tests since the EU issued an alert last October recommending countries tighten controls on produce from China.
Perhaps, the United States should take a lesson from the European countries. Whether there is a build up of poison in the body or not, we cannot trust the products we are importing from China. Before we finally sell our souls to China, maybe we should begin to take a closer look at the poisons they are putting in everything they export from lead paint on our toys, to deadly pet food ingredients, to tainted heparin just to name a few and now perhaps tainted soy meal.
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