'Organic' Food From China May Be Fake

PRI.ORG:

The organic label is meant to signify that a food is relatively environmentally friendly: Organic producers are forbidden from using many synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. When that organic food comes from China, that label may not mean much.

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Comments

[elcerritan]

04:15 PM on 07/12/2010

Does China make ANYTHING that's real - other than real human rights abuses?

[Douvie]

11:46 AM on 06/29/2010

One would have to be crazy to knowingly purchase any food product from China. Ten per cent of their food oils have recycled human waste in them. The rest isn't so healthy. Caca-ntonese anyone? Poopsicles? Feecesoise?

[weirwolf]

11:04 AM on 06/29/2010

The Chinese will fake anything. What next? Fake babies?

[Riyter]

12:14 PM on 06/28/2010

This is why you have to be careful shopping at Whole Foods. Lots of their frozen food is "organic from China". Except they rarely put the country of origin on the packaging. Just "distributed in Texas". I go to Trader Joe's where they put the real country of origin on things.

[mellene]

11:30 AM on 06/28/2010

Unbelievable! Just to think they're adding more corrupt practice while seducing Americans to thinking they're buying something safer just like the lead paint toys, etc. etc.

[I3addog]

07:34 AM on 06/27/2010

I'm off the mass market produce wagon, if I can't grow it myself or buy it from a local farmers market I will go without. Shipping strawberries from across the world is pure insanity.

[Tulka2]

12:32 AM on 06/28/2010

I agree. It is impossible to get pesticide off a strawberry.

[fredgladys]

10:26 PM on 06/26/2010

After a number of exposes of the contamination of food and other products from China my family avoids any food that has China in the labelling. And there we have another problem, how are we supposed to know, labelling seems to be slack.
Reading about China's food exports is a scary thing.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1561962/Chinas-contamination-scandals-exposed.html

[NoSillyName]

05:54 PM on 06/26/2010

I don't even want to give my dog or cats anything from China. After the deaths a few years ago, I read the labels to see where pet items are made.

Is this "fake organic" stuff marked as coming from China? If not, how are consumers to know?

[missjulz]

11:41 AM on 06/29/2010

Buy locally or American made/grown organic foods. Problem solved. The US labeling and certification process is rigorous and it is very trustworthy.

[missjulz]

11:42 AM on 06/29/2010

Oh, and don't shop at Trader Joe's who are notorious for faking products and for food recalls for safety.

[BLACKCAT66]

11:33 AM on 06/26/2010

Organic or no ANY produce from China is not good for the enviornment when you consider the carbon expense. BTW I wouldn't trust anything that comes from China I think we have all seen their track record on saftey.

[studmoose]

11:06 AM on 06/26/2010

What's in Organic yogurt? Read the following letter:

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5061736

[studmoose]

10:57 AM on 06/26/2010

If a certified organic crop is unintentionally contaminated by a neighbor’s GMO produced pollen, etc., is the organic crop still marketable as organic? According to the NOP regulations, I believe the organic crop contaminated by GMO pollen can still be sold as certified organic because it is not expressly prohibited by regulations to do so.

In the preamble to the final rule, we addressed this issue when we stated that, "drift has been a difficult issue for organic producer producers from the beginning...this regulation prohibits the use of excluded methods in organic operations. The presence of a detectable residue of a product of exclude methods alone does not necessarily constitute a violation of this regulation. AS LONG AS an organic operation has not used excluded methods and takes reasonable steps to avoid contact with the products of excluded methods as detailed in their approved organic system plan, the unintentional presence of the products of excluded methods should not affect the status of an organic
product or operation."

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5070206

[studmoose]

10:59 AM on 06/26/2010

Note: The above is a direct quote from the ams.usda.gov website. I added nothing to it, but the capitalization of AS LONG AS.

[NoSillyName]

06:00 PM on 06/26/2010

Thanks, studmoose. We're all doomed by genetic engineering one way or the other... frankenfood, toxic chemicals in & on everything.

I'm certain that only bugs may be able to evolve quickly enough to adapt. Remember the saying years ago that only cockroaches would survive a nuclear holocaust? Well, now we face a slower holocaust on a daily basis.

[Richard Aron]

09:59 AM on 06/26/2010

That's why I'm a locavor and I encourage my buddies and family to buy locally grown organic produce to support our hard-working farmers. Also, there should be a "locally grown" section inside every grocery store.

[I3addog]

07:39 AM on 06/27/2010

Also, there should be a "locally grown" section inside every grocery store.

Fanned for that !

[EatYourVeg]

08:58 AM on 06/26/2010

Once something comes all the way from another continent, it's not eco-friendly at all, organic or not.

[Steamboater]

01:36 AM on 06/26/2010

Just be glad there's no lead in the food although I'd send it to a lab before I ate it.

[snowejob]

01:17 AM on 06/26/2010

It says a lot when this article gets 23-ish comments but Lindsay Lohan articles will get thousands and thousands. What can you do. I guess people will have to start dying from the food they eat. Oh wait - they do.