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[I'll post my China imports story in a second, but first, some Monday morning links...]
[I'm not the most articulate human being -- not good with them word doohickeys. So it's reassuring when important people turn the language into a debris field, like something you'd see out a train window on the way to New York. This latest gem from our president is from a book review that ran in the Post:
Here is the president on his differences with Cheney -- whose daughter Mary is a lesbian -- over the subject of gay marriage: "My only ask was that if his daughter doubted my tolerance to her orientation that I would hope that he would help make it clear to Mary that this is a -- I was just worried about -- the reason I'd federalized the issue is because I was worried about the courts' defining the issue and that we'd end up with de facto marriage that was not traditionally defined, I guess is the best way to put it."]
[A shorter version of my busing story ran in the St. Pete Times. Florida's Best Newspaper. But -- gee -- where does it say I work for the Post? The Post puts this on the wire, but don't we require a citation? Better yet, shouldn't I get a cut? Where's my taste?] [Jeepers, the SPTimes has a ton of blogs, including this one devoted to the '80s. Notice how all their blogs have specific themes. They're about something. Why didn't I think of that????]
[Boodler bc on the threat of a Naughty Bomb.]
[By the way, we brag incessantly about how many comments we get here on the A-blog. But Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune got more than 1,500 comments on an item about a controversial TV reporter who got too close to the key figure in the case of a missing woman.]
[In the NYTimes, Robert Novak discusses (briefly) his conversion to Catholicism. Also, an interesting John Travolta profile.]
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Now (finally), here's my story in the Style section on China imports, with some annotations, amendations, extrapolations and (the best part of all) interpolations:
By J.A.
"Made in China."
Suddenly, they're the three most alarming words in the English language.
Go to any big box store, supermarket, toy shop: When you weren't paying attention (but enjoying the bargains), everything became Made in China, or made with stuff that's made in China, or made with stuff-that's-made-with-stuff that's made in China.
Nixon shook hands with Mao; deals were cut; investments invested. Beijing got the 2008 Olympics; Shanghai got hundreds of glittering skyscrapers. Now some of our American flags are made in China, and half of our garlic, and something like 40 percent of our apple juice and 19 percent of our honey and 70 percent of our toys and 80 percent of our Vitamin C.
Also, diethylene glycol. That's the industrial antifreeze found in toothpaste imported from China.
And nitrofuran, malachite green, gentian violet -- all three of which are known to be carcinogenic -- and fluoroquinolone. These are antimicrobial agents used by the Chinese aquaculture industry, triggering a ban by the Food and Drug Administration late last month on five types of Chinese seafood.
And of course, melamine. That's C3H6N6for those wanting the molecular makeup. It's an industrial plastic that found its way into canned pet food in the United States earlier this year, triggering the recall of 60 million cans.
[Wenonah Hauter, of Food & Water Watch, told me, "China in particular tries to stay ahead of the curve in terms of the chemicals they use." But there are problems around the globe, from Vietnamese catfish to candy made in Denmark (see this story in the Times).]
[China dominates the headlines, and that's self-reinforcing. Robert Kapp, former head of the U.S.-China Business Council, told me, "We are in the midst of a media storm on this. Once this gets going, it takes on a life of its own." Kapp says one big problem is that China has so many small producers in remote villages, making reforms hard to implement: "It's going to be extremely arduous to enforce those standards down to the village level among the hundreds of thousands and millions of producers."]
"These commodities are flowing in our society essentially unchecked," says former FDA associate commissioner William Hubbard. "We're gambling. Because no one's looking at this stuff!"
Not many people, at least. The FDA says it has 625 field inspectors eyeballing food across the country; they manage to scrutinize about 1 percent of imports. [David Acheson, new food safety chief at FDA: "Simply putting more inspectors at the ports isn't the answer." We can't inspect every container coming into the U.S. "The country would go broke."]But the number of inspectors has dropped in recent years even as an increasing percentage of our food -- about 13 percent by one recent estimate -- comes from foreign countries, many lacking strict regulation. China has millions of small producers making food and chemicals for the global market. "As a developing country, China's food and drug supervision work began late and its foundations are weak," said Yan Jiangying, the candid spokeswoman for China's food and drug agency. "Therefore, the food and drug safety situation is not something we can be optimistic about."
And now this: Buns stuffed with cardboard.
"A hidden camera followed the man into a ramshackle building where steamers were filled with the fluffy white buns, called baozi, traditionally stuffed with minced pork," reports the Associated Press, summarizing a Chinese television news program. "It showed how cardboard [!!!!!] was first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda -- a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap -- then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning were stirred in as flavoring and the concoction was stuffed into the buns."
The Chinese government has vowed to crack down on shady operators. It has to salvage the image of the China brand. The public relations strategy includes both defense and offense: Just yesterday, China banned meat imports from seven American companies, citing contamination by salmonella and chemical additives.
One might detect the pungent scent of a trade war brewing.
The former head of the State Food and Drug Administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, discovered last week that it's an extremely bad time to get blamed for any of China's food and drug safety problems. He had been convicted of taking bribes in exchange for helping drug companies evade regulation. Sentenced to death in May, he confessed his crimes in a written statement, vowed to return the bribe money, and pleaded for leniency. He proved unpersuasive; the government announced Tuesday that he had been executed. We can only imagine what he was given for his last meal.
Now, pull way back for the panoramic shot: This is a complexifying world in which no single person can grasp more than a tiny scrap of the economic and social systems that sustain us. We can no longer read the code. We don't know the origin of the thing we hold in our hand. We know only that it has a funny aftertaste.
We have become end users of stuff we don't understand that comes from factories we've never seen in cities we've never heard of full of people whose language we don't speak and whose names we can't pronounce.
[Partly this is a consumer preference: As Rep. Rosa DeLauro noted to me in the interview, "People want to have strawberries all year long." Acheson seconded that: "Consumers don't necessarily pay a lot of attention to where something is grown. I'm sure they pay more attention when they're buying a car." Here's a crazy thought: Buy local.]
"There's a world below our level of awareness that affects everything we do -- the quality of food we eat, the water we drink, the clothes on our back," says Robert Clark , a professor emeritus of government at George Mason University. "They're delivered by systems that are so complex, most of the people who are actually in the system don't understand them."
Consider the pet food calamity. One of the country's biggest pet food companies, Menu Foods, decided it needed a new supplier of a single ingredient: wheat gluten. It turned to a Las Vegas company named ChemNutra that specializes in importing food and drug ingredients from China -- stuff like potassium sorbate, L-Cysteine USP29 and L-Glycine USP28 .
ChemNutra bought wheat gluten from something called Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Co. Ltd., in Jiangsu province. The gluten from Xuzhou Anying was contaminated with melamine, the industrial plastic that ChemNutra believes was intentionally put into the wheat gluten to make it appear to be higher in protein. By the time U.S. inspectors reached the manufacturing plant in China, it had been closed and scrubbed clean. The melamine played a role in sickening or killing an unknown number of pets across the United States.
"There but for the grace of God go people," says Hubbard, the former FDA official. "That same kind of contamination could have killed 4,000 or 5,000 people."
Click here to keep reading the story.
[See also a related Outlook story.]
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