[Vision2020] CHINA: Melamine Contamination

[lfalen]

I would agree with what you have said.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Kenneth Marcy kmmos1 at verizon.net
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:39:19 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com,  lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] CHINA: Melamine Contamination

> On Friday 26 September 2008 12:19:41 lfalen wrote:
> > We can not trust the Chinese to ensure that their exports are safe. Their
> > products used internally are not safe. The FDA needs to test incoming
> > products to ensure that they are safe. I am normally against increased
> > government regulation, but this in one area where  it is needed. Roger
> 
> The FDA might be asked to do some spot checking as a result of a known problem 
> elsewhere that could be presumed to be headed our way. However, to be doing 
> product testing for Chinese products preferentially over the mountains of 
> American products, pharmaceuticals in particular, that have not been tested, 
> is a misapplication of current FDA resources. The fact of the matter is that 
> the FDA should have been testing many more American products many years ago, 
> and a serious backlog of undone testing exists among some potentially high 
> risk products.
> 
> This is not to suggest that we should ignore the Chinese and the problems they 
> are foisting off on Americans as safe consumer products. But we should not 
> become the quality control department for Chinese products sent to America. 
> On the other hand, we would do well to increase our sea port security, 
> searching for contraband in the form of illegal human cargo and other 
> non-conforming shipments of goods. If it turns out that acceptance sampling 
> of goods still on Chinese ships indicates substandard deliveries, we can 
> reject the entire lot and send it back. The longer term result should be 
> higher quality products received without contaminated fillers or additives.
> 
> 
> Ken