USDA Quietly Allow China To Secretly Process Chicken For US Market
Baxter Dmitry
YourNewsWire.com
June 10, 2017
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently gave the green-light to four chicken processing plants in China, allowing chicken raised and slaughtered in the U.S. to be exported to China for processing, and then shipped back to the U.S. and sold to American families.
The new law, designed to cut costs, has food safety experts claiming the authorities are “gambling unnecessarily” with Americans’ health.
“All this means is that we’ve deemed China’s poultry processing equivalent to the process in the United States,” confirmed Arianne Perkins, USDA public affairs specialist. Individual companies will still have to be certified, something Perkins says has not happened yet.
China has been the source of multiple serious food safety scares in recent years, raising serious questions about whether China can be trusted with our chicken. In 2013 alone:
Pork Meat Scandal
In March 2013, over 15,000 dead pigs had been found drifting down Huangpu River, caused by a crack-down on illicit pig-trade in Zhejiang. As reported by Shanghaiist, local pork dealers would buy up dead meat unfit for sale, process it in illegal workshops, and then re-introduce the products into the legal market.
Lamb Meat Scandal
In May 2013, the Ministry of Public Security released a press statement warning Shanghai consumers of lamb meat that inadvertently may have been, or contained, rat, fox or mink meat. According to some sources, respective fake lamb meat also reached Yum-owned “Little Sheep” hot pot chain restaurants, though Yum itself declined these rumors.
Recycled Out-of-date food
In June 2013, Wenzhou police shut down 10 underground mills in Zhejiang’s Cangnan County, and additionally seized large amounts of chemical additives and coloring agents, which were used to clean out-of-date (expired) chicken drumsticks and wings, ducks’ heads, and duck meat prior to re-selling them to the public.
Fake Beef
In September 2013, according to JRJ and Shanghaiist six workshops near Xi’an, Shaanxi, have been shut down that produced fake beef by mixing pork with chemicals, such as paraffin wax and industrial salts.
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