FDA Bans Some Seafood From China

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I am really upset at this. I cannot believe that our government has known this since 2006 and did nothing about it until now. Yesterday Thursday June 28, 2007, the FDA announced that a broader import control of all farm-raised catfish, basa, shrimp, dace (related to carp), and eel from China. FDA will start to detain these products at the border until the shipments are proven to be free of residues from drugs that are not approved in the United States for use in farm-raised aquatic animals. You can read this at the government site here: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01660.html They state that to date, there have been no reported illnesses. I was shocked to read that the FDA did targeted sampling from October 2006 through May 2007, FDA repeatedly found that farm raised seafood imported from China were contaminated with antimicrobial agents that are not approved for this use in the United States. How can they keep this from us for that length of time and not do anything about it until now. You can read about this testing here. http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=205&z=1 The Washington Post had a wonderful article on this here. They state “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday banned the import of five types of farm-raised fish and shrimp from China because they have been found to contain unsafe drugs, some of which can cause cancer.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/28/AR2007062801280.html I am really upset over this! To me this sounds so scary. The government knew this as early as Oct 2006 and did nothing to keep us safe from it. What are we paying our government to do if not to keep us safe? Wonder how much food we are eating that cause cancer? Or for that matter, what are we eating that the government KNOWS causes cancer and have not told us??