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Made-in-China jerky treats kill 600 dogs in U.S.

U.S. pets are dying from pet food made in China. Again.

Fox News reports that yesterday, Oct. 22, 2013, the Food and Drug Administration issued an alert to consumers about the illnesses and deaths tied to jerky treats from China which had killed nearly 600 dogs and sickened more than 3,000.
Officials say the exact cause of the illnesses remains unknown.

 

USDA approves import of chicken processed in China despite safety concerns

Posted on November 13, 2013 by StMA 

In addition to the contaminated chicken jerky treats for pets, China has an infamous reputation as one of the world’s worst food safety offenders of pet and human food contaminated with pesticides, chemicals, and outright poisons. I compiled the following chronological list of Chinese food safety incidents from Wikipedia, which reads like a horror story:

• In 2003, small producers of Jinhua ham in China soaked their ham in the pesticide Dichlorvos.

• In 2004, hundreds of babies in China died from or suffered malnutrition from ingesting fake powdered milk that contained only 1-6% protein instead of the minimum national requirement of 10% protein.

• Also in 2004, at last 6 men died of alcohol poisoning in China after drinking fake liquor made from industrial alcohol and rice wine.

• Also in 2004, soy sauce manufactured in China and quietly exported to other countries were discovered to have been made with amino acid syrup (or powder) from human hair that had been gathered from salon, barbershop and hospitals around the country, mixed with condoms, used hospital cottons, used menstrual cycle pad, used syringe, etc. In response, the Chinese government banned production of soy sauce made from hair, but other carcinogens such as 3-MCPD remain.

• In 2006, Chinese officials discovered illegal amounts of chemicals in the turbot fish — of prohibited antibiotics, carcinogenic nitrofuran metabolites, and malachite green, which is a triarylmethane dye.

• Also in 2006, Greenpeace tested vegetables in two Hong Kong grocery stores and discovered that over 70% of their samples were covered in pesticide residue exceeding safe levels; some samples tested positive for illegal pesticides, such as DDT, HCH and Lindane. Nearly 80% of vegetables in these grocery stores originated from mainland China.

• In 2007, thousands of U.S. dogs and cats died or got sick from eating melamine-contaminated Made-in-China pet food.

• Also in 2007, a hundred Chinese manufacturers of stinky (or fermented) tofu  were found to use a combination of sewage, slop, and Iron(II) sulfate to accelerate production and improve appearance of the tofu.
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