Extreme Caution -Food products from China

[Penn]

New food scandal as fields of watermelons are destroyed after farmers mistakenly apply growth accelerator

A casual walk down Canal Street in NYC will attest that this was no accident, the culture is motivated by profit.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...hinese-farming

Fields of watermelons exploded when he and other agricultural workers in eastern China mistakenly applied forchlorfenuron, a growth accelerator. The incident has become a focus of a Chinese media drive to expose the lax farming practices, shortcuts and excessive use of fertiliser behind a rash of food safety scandals.

It follows discoveries of the heavy metal cadmium in rice, toxic melamine in milk, arsenic in soy sauce, bleach in mushrooms, and the detergent borax in pork, added to make it resemble beef.

[Gypsy]

More and more I'm buying produce and meat grown locally from the farmer's market. My latest craze is first picked blueberries from MI, I buy them frozen at the market...4.00 per lb. They are large, juicy and FABULOUS.

[BigJimCalhoun]

A while back there was that issue with the melanine in dairy products. One buy on another board had isses with his knees and long story short, changed brands of protein powder and the issue went away.