U.S. food safety inspectors have been overwhelmed by the surging food imports from China since the country joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. These international business deals allow trade to trump food safety and encourage U.S. agribusinesses and food manufacturers to source food ingredients from China where environmental, food safety and labor laws are weaker and regulatory oversight is lax.
Systemic food safety failures in China have allowed countless unsafe products onto global grocery store shelves.
Not just foods, we buy bulk ingredients that could end up in anything and everything we eat. So foods made in America may even be unsafe. Everything from China needs to be tested. And maybe even labeled as an import. We don't want our kids eating melamine-tainted foods!



