Food Safety and Big Government
When I read headlines like “Peanut Recall Wipes out Energy Bar Company,” it confounds me to see that there are still people that who complain about regulations being bad for business in all cases. They continually insist that governmental oversight is bad for both everyday citizens and businesses. However, the lack of oversight [...]
February 23, 2009
Tags: Barack Obama, FDA, food event, food safety, Health, melamine, policy, USDA Posted in: Health, Politics 
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Death Sentences Handed Out for the Melamine Crisis
From the BBC:
Two men have been given the death penalty for their involvement in China’s contaminated milk scandal.
The former boss of the Sanlu dairy at the centre of the scandal was given life imprisonment.
They were among several sentences handed down by the court in northern China, where Sanlu is based.
Yes, those involved in the melamine [...]
January 23, 2009
Tags: China, food event, food safety, melamine, policy Posted in: Uncategorized No Comments
The FDA detains Chinese Products with Milk now…!?
It’s actually probably the closest the United States will ever come to putting economic sanctions on China. For other nations we force out dictators and engage in lengthy cold wars. However, because capitalist China holds a special place in our hearts with it’s cheap, manufactured goods, we are forever silent about the authoritarian government’s encroachments [...]
November 17, 2008
Tags: China, food event, melamine, policy Posted in: Health, Politics 2 Comments
Melamine – First China’s Pet Food Calamity and Now a Baby Formula Crisis
According to the ever-helpful Wikipedia, “Melamine is combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a very durable thermosetting plastic, and melamine foam, a polymeric cleaning product.” In other words, it is the stuff your picnic plastic-wear is made of. It also happens to bond nitrogen in the same way that proteins do, so when companies test [...]
November 2, 2008
Tags: baby formula, breastfeeding, melamine Posted in: Health, Politics No Comments
