Shanghai'd

Fake food.

Some light reading to peruse over your morning bowl of (hopefully melamine-free) Wheaties:

pets
poisons
pesticides
profits

It's actually surprising to me that this recent incident is the first major news story about the dangers of imported Chinese food safety. My Chinese colleagues have been keenly aware of the risks of jiade shiwu and drugs here for a while. Whenever they make a trip to the US, they come back with suitcases full of over-the-counter vitamins and drugs (mainly to give to their parents). They just don't trust the Chinese brand products, with good reason.

The irony is that those bottles of Centrum Silver probably contain ingredients that were exported to the US from China in the first place. And although the US is much better equipped to regulate and enforce safety than their Chinese counterparts, I don't exactly get a warm fuzzy feeling from our FDA either.

Needless to say, Laurel and I will be making a trip to our local organic farmer's market this weekend.