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FDA APPROVED ?

The fda is the industry that in this country that makes sure all medications that are available for hman consuption have been properly studied and tested before they became available to the general public. In China there is an insustry that is responsible for doing the same thing. The leader of that industry was just recently sentenced to death for a long histsory of abuse.

The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court convicted Zheng Xiaoyu of taking bribes in cash and gifts worth more than $832,000 when he was director of the State Food and Drug Administration, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It is hard for me to imagine all of the millions of lives that this man have put in dangerbecause of his own greed. China’s main quality control agency announced its first recall system for unsafe food products. coThe developments are among the most dramatic steps Beijing has publicly taken to address domestic and international alarm over shoddy and unsafe Chinese goods from pet food ingredients and toothpaste mixed with industrial chemicals to tainted antibiotics. The aggects of the bans and recalls affects all of us that live in this country also. Pet food ingredients, spiked with the chemical melamine and related compounds, have been blamed in the deaths of dogs and cats in North America. The U.S. government has stopped all imports of Chinese toothpaste after reports that some products sold in Australia, the Dominican Republic and Panama were tainted with diethylene glycol, a chemical commonly used in antifreeze and brake fluid. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also warned consumers not to buy or eat imported fish from China labeled as monkfish because it might actually be pufferfish, which contains a potentially deadly toxin called tetrodotoxin. The warning came days after three southern U.S. states banned imports of catfish from China because they contained traces of antibiotics the FDA says have never been approved for use in aquaculture. Here is an interesting fact for you According to The Outlook Weekly, a magazine published by the Chinese government's news agency, a survey by the quality inspection administration found that a third of China's 450,000 food production companies had no licenses. My spirit is trobuled .