Under new rules announced by the USDA the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has declared that China is eligible to export processed, cooked chicken to the United States. They have provided the following as justification for their decision:
The United States is not importing any raw chicken from China.
FSIS has determined that China’s poultry processing inspection system is equivalent to that of the United States, and cooked chicken imported from China would be processed under equivalent conditions as in the United States.
These rationales are flawed. They do not consider what the reality of Chinese food inspection practices have been shown to be in the past decade, and they do not recognize the very real potential for Corporate malfeasance in the pursuit of profit.