Back on April 4th my newspaper column on the pet food scare warned that the tainted melamine could end up in the human food supply, and suggested the FDA has been lax in its oversight. Today's news wire reports say it's happened...though not as directly as I'd imagined. Through an even more ridiculous route, the tainted pet food was recalled, then apparently sold to hog farmers to fed it to their stock. Those hogs were eventually slaughtered and the pork that went to market is tainted with-- you guessed it --melamine from China.
It would be funny if it wasn't so scary. How long will it be before low-cost, unregulated, and uninspected food imports from China end up killing someone's child? It's time to overhaul the FDA and get it off the corporate agenda and back into the role of protecting our citizens.
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