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stop the USDA from imported unsafe chicken products from China.

Created by J.S. on September 04, 2013

On August 30, 2013 the USDA announced that it had ended a ban on Chinese chicken imports by approving four Chinese poultry processors to ship processed ("heat-treated/cooked") chicken to the U.S. The chickens will be slaughtered in the U.S. (or another nation that's allowed to export slaughtered chicken to the U.S.), then shipped to China for processing and re-export back into the US for distribution into our food chain. Also no USDA inspectors will be present in the Chinese processing plants thus offering consumers no guarantees where the processed chickens were in fact slaughtered. Even worse, because the birds will be processed, the USDA will not require point-of-origin labeling (under USDA rules, foods that have been cooked aren't subject to point-of-origin labeling).

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