Thursday, December 29, 2011

Lax regulation or stealth population control

It is hard to say, but the Chinese government has disclosed their findings of poisonous crap in one dairy and three cooking oil manufacturers.
Chinese authorities have recalled cooking oil products made by three companies after finding they contained the same type of cancer-causing toxin recently found in milk, state media said Thursday.

A product safety watchdog in the southern province of Guangdong suspended operations at plants owned by the firms, which made oil containing excessive levels of aflatoxin, caused by mold, the Xinhua news agency said.

The incident comes after leading dairy firm Mengniu revealed at the weekend that authorities found high levels of aflatoxin in a batch of milk before it was sold, caused by cows eating moldy feed at a farm in southwest China.

Aflatoxins, which affect grains and other agricultural products, can increase the risk of cancer, including liver cancer, according to the World Health Organisation.

The oil was made from peanuts, Xinhua said, naming the producers as Fusheng Oil, Manyi Peanut Oiland Mabao Oil.

It was not known if any of the tainted oil had reached consumers, it added.
It is worth noting that at least one Republican/Teabagger candidate has suggested that the US have less regulation than the Chinese. Given the Chinese results, can you imagine how many of us would be dead if we had less food regulation than China?

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