From the New York Times:
The pet food case is also putting China’s agricultural exports under greater scrutiny because the country has had a terrible food safety record.
In recent years, for instance, China’s food safety scandals have involved everything from fake baby milk formulas and soy sauce made from human hair to instances where cuttlefish were soaked in calligraphy ink to improve their color and eels were fed contraceptive pills to make them grow long and slim.
For their part, Chinese officials dispute any suggestion that melamine from the country could have killed pets. But regulators here on Friday banned the use of melamine in vegetable proteins made for export or for use in domestic food supplies.
Yet what is clear from visiting this region of northeast China is that for years melamine has been quietly mixed into Chinese animal feed and then sold to unsuspecting farmers as protein-rich pig, poultry and fish feed.
but can i still GO to China and eat the food there?
someday.
Posted by: jen | May 01, 2007 at 08:54 PM
This is not a surprise. It's all about low cost (at 50 cents per hour per staff cost) for mass production by the truckloads.
Homemade dog food is the best! With commercial producers looking to cut cost and ignoring quality, our pets are being harmed!
Check out this review on canned dog food - http://www.squidoo.com/dogfoodsecretsreview/
Mason
http://www.wellness-dog-food.com
Posted by: wellness dog food | July 18, 2007 at 12:41 AM