According to this story, Chinese food inspectors banned meat products from seven U.S. companies. The ban comes weeks after U.S. FDA bans Chinese seafood imports.
The suspension of meat imports from the American companies -- including Tyson Foods -- comes just weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would hold all farm-raised catfish, basa, shrimp, dace and eel shipments arriving from China until they are tested for residues from drugs not approved by the U.S. for use in farm-raised fish. Xinhua quoted the head of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine calling the FDA action "unacceptable," and warning that "China, too, detects many substandard food products from the U.S."
In that case, I wonder why the China never detected any substandard food products from the US before the ban. All I can say is this is good for the average consumer. The stricter the inspection, the less chances we have of wolfing mercury for dinner. On a separate note read: Chinese tonight?
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