GENEVA (Reuters) – Chocolate-flavored body spreads sold in British sex shops have been found to be tainted with melamine, the chemical that made thousands of babies ill in China, food safety authorities said on Monday.
The British Food Standards Agency (FSA) said melamine had been found in Chinese-made “I Love You” sets, sold at Ann Summers sex shops, containing chocolate and strawberry body pens and chocolate-flavored penis and nipple spreads. “This is a first. We’ve never had to put out an alert before on ‘willy spread’ — chocolate-flavored or otherwise,” the FSA said on its Web site, www.foodstandards.gov.uk.
The levels of melamine detected in the “I Love You” sets, manufactured in China by Le Bang and imported into Britain by Scobie (Llarn) Ltd, ranged from 126 milligrams per kg to 259 milligrams per kg, the FSA said. European Union rules require that products with more than 2.5 milligrams per kg must be withdrawn and destroyed. Embarek said adults may be less at risk of illness from consuming melamine than infants whose only food source was tainted formula.
“It is not an acute public health danger if you eat one contaminated biscuit,” he said.
Everything in moderation, right?
When did it become American national policy to outsource our food? (I know, I know this is a British story but…) I think it is a matter of national security and strength that we produce our own food and medicine.
A good rule of thumb is to not put anything in your mouth that comes from China.
#2 – hhopper – A good rule of thumb is to not put anything in your mouth that comes from China.
Unless it’s your better half… 😉
This way past the point where any Chinese foodstuff should be banned. China has opted not to join the WTO and has no trade agreements with the US. We are under no obligation to continue to accept their poisons.
If they want their money back, they can sue us.
#4 – Mr. Fusion – China has opted not to join the WTO…
China is a member of WTO.
When did it become necessary to list the country of origin for all ingredients? To my (perhaps limited knowledge) it isn’t. Therein lies the rub.
So long as the free-trade-even-if-it-kills-us-attitude holds sway, we will import literally anything, including food, if it saves someone a penny.
The answer is thorough inspections and high standards. Everything–foreign and domestic–has to be inspected and held to the same high standard. You want your wares placed in the US food supply, they have to meet our standards. Goods that fail inspection must destroyed, not repurposed or resold.
The cost of inspection and the reliable threat of the loss of money and goods will make it uneconomical to offer tainted goods for sale. If the problem persists, raise the costs by ever more thorough inspection. We can’t have tariffs. We have to have safe food.
#4 – Mr. Fusion – China … has no trade agreements with the US.
And trade agreements.
Oh no, my girlfriends may be in jeopardy!
Brown Sugar
-The Rolling Stones
J/P=?
Good Grief! Is there _anything_ left not made in China? How can it be cheaper to ship candy ten thousand miles than to make it nearby?
I tell you, we’re going to have to change the name from China (nice plates) to Melmac (cheap plastic s%*t)!
OK, now the Chinese are really hitting below the belt….literally. LOL!!