Thursday, June 28, 2007

Lead and anti-freeze join Chicom poisoning of America

My Way News - US: Chinese Seafood Detained for Safety:
"'In order to get cancer in lab animals you have to feed fairly high levels of the drug over a long term,' said Dr. David Acheson, the FDA's assistant commissioner for food protection. 'We're talking not days, weeks, not even months but years. At these levels you might not reach that level, but we don't want to take a chance.'"

Melamine poisoning of pet food from Red China was only the tip of the iceberg. Despite protestations from the Chinese commerce ministry, it is hard to avoid the suspicion that the perpetrators have assurance their government will not prosecute them for adulterated products exported to the West.

Long-term, low-level exposure of target populations could be a stealth warfare strategy. As the examples accumulate, the odds that this is just a string of unfortunate, but unconnected, examples of sloth or greed diminish. Somewhat ironically, China's best argument for the latter, an argument they are unlikely to offer publicly, is that the shortcomings of their legal system encourage such corner-cutting - where is China's equivalent of John Edwards when you need to file a product liability suit there?

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