I keep getting an “IE has encountered a problem….” This is the ONLY page that I’m having trouble with. I’ve been able to load numerous other pages, just not this one. I’ve even rebooted.

Thanx!

I’m hoping to get those numbers in the NY Times.

Also, from the other thread, I posted this.

See the full article at:

http://www.iht.com/articles/20.....ws/fda.php

However, you might hurry as the IHT pulled a critical article of Chinese practices over the weekend and I haven’t seen it in full again.

NEW YORK: Early in the 20th century, the safeguarding of food at American ports often amounted to inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration prying open containers of molasses or sugar and examining them for mold or insect parts.

The FDA has come a way since then, but not much more.

Last year, inspectors sampled just 20,662 shipments out of the more than 8.9 million that arrived at American ports. China, which in one decade has become the third-largest exporter of food, by value, to the United States, sent 199,000 shipments, of which less than 2 percent were sampled, former officials with the agency said.

Now, as the agency’s inspectors travel to China to investigate the source of contaminated pet food that has killed at least 16 dogs and cats and sickened thousands of others, critics in Washington are warning that the agency is woefully understaffed and underfinanced to keep America’s food supply safe.

Another excerpt:
“Emulsifiers” or “stabilizers” found in chewing gums and candies, for example, increasingly come from sub-Saharan Africa and Pakistan, Hubbard, the former agency official, said.
Imports of milling industry products like wheat gluten, while still small, have more than doubled in value since 1996. Food processors use glutens to raise protein content and thicken everything from candy bars to pet food.
“In the same meal these days, we may be eating food from several regions of the world,” said Caroline Smith DeWaal, the director of food safety for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington lobbying group. “But you get what you pay for in terms of food safety. These food processors may be looking for a cheap new source, but they may pay for it down the line.”

I have e-mailed them regarding the updated numbers available from the FDA. Hopefully, this “urban legend” of so few deaths will go away at some point.