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The tangled food relationship between China and the U.S. keeps getting
tangledier. As new details emerge in the wake of the March wave of pet
deaths, concerns about the possibility of tainted food reaching U.S.
dinner tables are growing. U.S. regulators said yesterday that cyanuric
acid, a chemical used as a stabilizer in swimming pools, was added to
pet food, and that some doctored wheat flour used in the pet food was
fed to fish raised for human consumption. Meanwhile, the USDA is
considering approving sales of chicken from China, a prospect that
worries some. Mix all these revelations with just a dash of xenophobia
-- "They're already killing our pets. Do we want to eat their food?" is
an honest-to-goodness quote from one U.S. poultry-industry rep -- and
you get one big mess. Said Rebecca J. Goldburg of Environmental
Defense, "It shows the degree to which, with the globalization of
agriculture, things that go wrong in one country can affect many of us
who never thought we'd be touched."
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The New York Times, David Barboza, 09 May 2007
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Regulators Reveal New Information on China-U.S. Food Links
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One Bad Scrapple Spoils the Bunch
Grist Magazine, May 9, 2007
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