- Hello Jeff -- Here we go again, another Chinese ingredient
at the center of a food recall. This time it is Veggie Booty snack, Super
Veggie Tings, Crunchy Corn Sticks supposedly "made in the US."
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- I have been on the forefront of demanding that American
and Canadian companies stop using Chinese ingredients in their products.
Whether it is tooth paste, pet foods or other products, China has served
notice on the rest of the world, and even on its own people, that Chinese
companies cannot be trusted.
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- How many people have to die before we stop using Chinese
ingredients and importing Chinese foods?
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- It is time for the consumer to demand companies stop
using Chinese ingredients in toiletries and foods as well as supplements.
People should begin by writing to major corporations, such as Proctor
Gamble et al, and demand 'Chinese-free' products. If trade with China
continues, then it is time for a boycott of all items "Made In China!"
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- Patty
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- Tainted Chinese Seasoning Used On Recalled
Snack Foods
- 7-3-7
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- WASHINGTON (AP) -- A seasoning
made with imported Chinese ingredients used on recalled snack foods was
contaminated with salmonella, a company official said Tuesday. The snack
foods sickened dozens of people.
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- The seasoning, used on both Super Veggie Tings Crunchy
Corn Sticks and Veggie Booty snack foods, tested positive for the bacteria,
said Robert Ehrlich, president and chief executive of Robert's American
Gourmet Inc. The "veggie" seasoning's ingredients came primarily
from China, the company said.
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- Also Tuesday, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture
said it found a strain of the bacteria called salmonella Wandsworth in
a Veggie Booty sample. The rare strain matched the genetic fingerprint
of the type that made consumers ill in multiple states, Minnesota officials
said in a release.
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- The Sea Cliff, New York, company recalled its Veggie
Booty Snack Food last week after it was associated with 54 cases of salmonella
poisoning in 17 states. Many of those infected reported eating Veggie Booty.
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- The company expanded the recall on Monday to include
Super Veggie Tings Crunchy Corn Sticks Snack Food, since it uses the same
seasoning. Both baked products were sold across United States and Canada.
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- No other company product uses the spray-on seasoning.
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- The recall is only the latest in a growing series to
involve Chinese-made products found to be tainted, defective or otherwise
dangerous. In recent weeks, there have been recalls of Chinese tires, toy
trains and toothpaste. The government also is blocking some Chinese farmed
seafood imports because of widespread contamination by antibiotics and
other drugs.
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- Ehrlich said he had been unaware of where the ingredients
used in the seasoning originated. The products are made under contract;
Ehrlich would not identify the manufacturer.
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- Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections,
especially in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened
immune systems. Symptoms include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and
abdominal pain. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend
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- Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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- Please visit my "Emerging Diseases" message
board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
- Also my new website:
- http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/
- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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