Food Processing - February 2008 - (Page 22) A flattening world, consumer price resistance and overtaxed regulators require new approaches to ensure the safety of imported food ingredients. By Diane Toops, News & Trends Editor Ingredients fro MARCH 30, 2007: TWO WEEKS AFTER A MASSIVE RECALL OF several brands of pet foods and after dozens of dogs and cats have died of unexplained intestinal ills, scientists at FDA’s Forensic Chemistry Center in Cincinnati make an unusual discovery: There are high levels of melamine in the food. An industrial chemical used to make plastics and sterilize swimming pools, the melamine seems to have come from the added wheat gluten. But how did it ever get in that ingredient? In another two weeks, the whole country would learn how China had become one of the world’s leading suppliers of ingredients, and not just for pet foods. That’s right, the same country known for cheap angora wool sweaters, lead-based paint on toys and knock-offs of copyrighted and trademarked goods was supplying us with basic ingredients for our foods. And consumers didn’t even know it. Consumer reactions were numerous and varied. How could this happen in America, where consumers enjoy one of the safest food supplies in the world? This time it involved pets, but could the same thing happen to human food? And when did we start importing food ingredients from China? Perhaps that last question was the most perplexing. American parents, who also had begun returning toys and children’s jewelry tainted with lead paint, were learning what a huge trading partner China had become. Now did they have to worry if there are dangerous Chinese ingredients in their frozen pizza? 22 • FOOD PROCESSING FEBRUARY 2008 WWW.FOODPROCESSING.COM http://www.foodprocessing.com
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