For sure folks, it’s everywhere, check your supplies!! How can something be so horrible and funny at the same time? I mean what if no one had checked? How many ways can we poison ourselves?
United Kingdom
UK food regulator warns of sex shop body spread
The Associated Press
Published: October 20, 2008
[LONDON: A British sex shop chain has suspended sales of a chocolate body spread found to contain small quantities of the industrial chemical melamine, Britain’s food regulator said Monday.
The novelty chocolate spreads were manufactured in Zhongshan, China, and imported into the country by Scobie (Llarn) Ltd, according to Britain’s Food Standards Agency. The products were sold in Ann Summers sex shops across Britain….]
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/20/europe/EU-Britain-Tainted-Body-Spread.php
Macau
3 more Macau children sick after drinking milk
The Associated Press
Published: October 22, 2008
[HONG KONG: Three more children in the southern Chinese gambling enclave of Macau have developed kidney stones after drinking milk that may have been be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, bringing the total number of sick children to seven, the government said….]
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/22/asia/AS-Macau-Tainted-Milk.php
China
China recalls another herbal drug after baby death
Reuters
Published: October 20, 2008
[BEIJING: China has recalled a herbal remedy after it was blamed for the death of a newborn baby, state media said Monday, in the latest health scare to hit the country.
The 9-day-old baby in the northern province of Shaanxi died after being injected with “Yinzhihuang,” a remedy containing herbal extracts and used to treat liver diseases and infantile jaundice, the official Xinhua news agency said….]
http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/10/20/asia/OUKWD-UK-CHINA-DRUG.php
1,500 dogs die from tainted feed in China
The Associated Press
Published: October 21, 2008
[BEIJING: Some 1,500 dogs bred for their raccoon-like fur have died after eating feed tainted with melamine, raising questions about how widespread the industrial chemical is in China’s food chain….]
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/21/asia/AS-China-Tainted-Milk.php
USA
Yeah a lot of time! Just for A survey!!! Another system breaking down? What are we going to do about it? Will be placing Inspectors in China and India? WTF!! This kind of thing really makes you want to turn isolationist, or an herb farmer!
US surveys of foreign drug makers would take time
The Associated Press
Published: October 22, 2008
[WASHINGTON: A lot can happen in 13 years. A new president. Medical discoveries. Economic boom and bust.
But 13 years also is how long it would take U.S. inspectors to visit each of 3,249 foreign manufacturing plants that supply medications for the American market, according to congressional investigators.
Their report being released Wednesday concluded that the Food and Drug Administration is nowhere near to closing an oversight gap so as to make foreign facilities get the same scrutiny as domestic U.S. plants. Pharmaceutical factories in the United States get a federal inspection every 2.7 years, on average.
Although the FDA will soon be placing inspectors in China and India, “given the growth in foreign drug manufacturing for the U.S. market, and the large gaps in FDA’s foreign drug inspection program, significant challenges remain,” the Government Accountability Office said in its report.
The report “confirms that the system deployed by FDA to police (foreign) facilities and keep Americans safe from poorly manufactured drugs is understaffed, overwhelmed and completely inadequate,” said Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak…]
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/22/america/NA-US-FDA-Foreign-Inspections.php
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