[國際新聞] U.S. meat products tainted with ractopamine newspapers, reporting, products, supplies, politics

peter236

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/13722909-us-meat-products-tainted-with-ractopamine

U.S. meat products tainted with ractopamine

Moscow : Russia
By RobertTilford

Russian newspapers are reporting that U.S. meat supplies to Russia have been banned. Officials claims that the reason for the ban, have nothing to do with politics but instead because of the presence of a drug called "ractopamine" in U.S. meat products.

According to a Pravda, on December 7, 2012 Russia's Federal Agency for Agricultural Control, Rosselhohznadzor, banned the imports of meat containing ractopamine (see article: Russia throws poisonous meat back to U.S..

The ban however hasn't prevented unscrupulous suppliers in the U.S. from trying to sell such tainted meat products in Russia anyway.

So much so that all meat products, including pork and beef from the U.S. have been "banned."

Ractopamine is a food additive that allows to reduce the content of fat in beef and pork. The drug is added to food and feed to animals - so that they grow the muscle mass instead of fat. It is the active ingredient in products known as Paylean for swine and Optaflexx for cattle, developed by Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly and Company, for use in food animals for growth promotion.

It is passed indirectly from animals to human through the consumption of tainted meat products...

According to researchers, ractopamine affects the human cardiovascular system, and in some cases "can cause food poisoning in persons who eat it." In addition, "It doesn't meet with minimum Russian sanitary standards", according to the deputy director of the Institute of the USA and Canada, Victor Supyan told Pravda.Ru.

A fact that, as you can imagine doesn't sit too well will many cattle producers here in America.

How all this will ultimately play out is any one's guess at this point. On the one hand it doesn't appear the U.S. has any intention, whatsoever of banning the use of the drug here in this country. On the other hand Russian officials have refused to compromise the health of people in their country by lowering it's food safety standards to accommodate Americans.

In the end, I think it will wind up hurting U.S. cattle producers the most.

Russia, it should be noted is the fourth largest importer of U.S. meat and spends about $500 million a year on it. The Russian market consumes 0.6 percent of all beef and 1.4 percent of pork produced in the United States.

satil

前兩年咪教過你, Ractopamine這種廋肉精是合法, WHO都認可. 全球只有強國及Russia係禁止.
搞到佢哋當地咪用非法更毒的廋肉精.. on車.
明知人地有用Ractopamine就唔好去採購外地肉啦. 咁醒咪中俄兩國互買囉,   

睇嚟皮蛋仔一定唔食北美洲生產啲肉類.
佢一定只係食佢強國運嚟啲肉.
預埋佢會駁...'我淨係食made in China', '我淨食有機產品, 無機我死都唔食'....

Quest

don't bother arguing with him and his blind, one-sided patriotism. Afterall: motherland corporate already bought one of the biggest meat processing company (Smithfield) back in May, 13):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 12722044165756.html

Asian Meat Giant Strikes $4.7 Billion Deal for Virginia's Smithfield Foods

In a way: motherland will, inadvertently, imports US pork that is done by Ractopamine 廋肉精.

(*like I said before: the world is getting smaller the way I see it. Just like Dr. Evil said to Austin Powers: "we aren't so different, U and I, afterall...." *)

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Quest

lastly, something worth noting for:

In various Westeran civilised democratic societies: mass media also acts/serves as policing for the societal justice, and will be the first to expose any corporate/govt wrongdoings to the general public w/o fear of repercussions.

in motherland: most mass media voices are controlled by their govt, with no fair say and no justice for the fear of political repercussions. It's part of the long-standing govt controlled propaganda war which aids the brainwashing of 憤青 locals and abroad, leading them into their development of schizophrenia.....



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peter236

前兩年咪教過你, Ractopamine這種廋肉精是合法, WHO都認可. 全球只有強國及Russia係禁止.
搞到佢哋當地咪 ...
satil 發表於 2013-9-5 08:03

That's totally laughable. This harmful additive is banned in over 160 countries including the European Union, unlike what you claimed only Russia and China had banned it. The US is very irresponsible by allowing its use. Clearly, their aim is to make money.

Your misinformation is harming other people. Of course you can eat as much of this ractopamine as you want.

Please pay attention and learn.

Banned in 160 Nations... Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?

http://www.sott.net/article/2043 ... -Regards-it-as-Safe

European ministers uphold EU ractopamine ban

The European Union’s (EU) Council of Ministers for agriculture has upheld a ban on EU meat producers using the growth-promoting drug ractopamine and on the import of meat from cattle treated with it.

http://www.globalmeatnews.com/In ... -EU-ractopamine-ban

Ractopamine has been banned by 160 countries, including
the 27 European Union countries and China.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/keyword/ractopamine

peter236

don't bother arguing with him and his blind, one-sided patriotism. Afterall: motherland corporate al ...
Quest 發表於 2013-9-5 11:32

China's ban on ractopamine and the proposal to buy Smithfield, if approved, China will actually help in the reduction of use of this harmful additive in the US, to the benefit of all consumers.

China Could Actually Improve US Pork. Here's How.

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-p ... ghtly-clean-us-pork

In banning ractopamine, China joins the European Union, Russia, and Taiwan, among other countries. The Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR)—whose agriculture negotiations are led by former agrichemical industry lobbyist Isi Siddiqui—has pushed back hard against this resistance, trying to force other countries to accept pork from ractopamine-laced hogs.

The Smithfield deal may signal an end to that fight. Regardless of the USTR's machinations, the US meat industry's zeal to access the vast and fast-growing China market has tamped down its appetite for ractopamine. Last year, Bottemiller reported that between 60 and 80 percent of US hogs got regular lashings of ractopamine. But in mid-May, perhaps with an eye on the coming deal with its suitor to the east, Smithfield announced that it would soon be able to ensure that half of its vast pork production will soon be ractopamine-free. Smithfield rival Tyson is also shifting some of its contract producers way from ractopamine because it's "concerned about how the use of these supplements is restricting US access to some important export markets," a company spokesman told Reuters on Thursday.

Quest

pot calling the kettle black:


"one nation with 2 types of pork"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xniVLW3wDWc

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2011/April/19041102.asp

Clenbuterol scandal highlights the need for better testing

19 April 2011

By Hepeng Jia/Beijing, China

The illegal use of clenbuterol in porcine feed in China has led to an overhaul in Chinese food industry regulations and calls for scientists to develop more stringent testing techniques for the chemical.

Clenbuterol is a  beta-2 agonist and sympathomimetic amine that is used to treat breathing disorders. When fed to livestock it accelerates growth and increases the proportion of lean meat. China began to use clenbuterol in pig feed in the late 1980s, but hundreds of people suffered from nausea, dizziness, hypertension and hyperglycemia after eating pork containing the chemical, and it was banned in 2002. According to Wang Zongli, from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, illegal use of clenbuterol is reducing year by year, but it has not been eliminated yet.

Clenbuterol is a slimming additive for pigs
Clenbuterol is still used illegally in China to accelerate the growth of livestock

On 15 March, China central television (CCTV) reported that pork sold by Shuanghui, the country's largest meat producer, contained clenbuterol, sparking a nationwide campaign against the chemical's illegal use. By 8 April, a total of 95 people in central Henan Province, where Shuanghui is based, were taken into police custody for allegedly producing, selling or using clenbuterol. All meat product sales of Shuanghui have been suspended and the company has claimed total losses of up to Yuan20 billion (£1.9 billion).

The scandal was caused by farmers pursuing profits and slack regulations, says Chen Wen, deputy dean of the School of Public Health of Guangzhou-based Sun Yat-sen University.  

According to Wang Zhixiang, a professor of veterinary science at Henan Agricultural University, random testing for clenbuterol by meat producers is carried out in the industry using a paper test and then positive results are confirmed with techniques such as gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). But the cost to test one pig is about Yuan30 while a meat producer's profit per pig is commonly only Yuan50, said Shuanghui's chairman Wang Long, when speaking to the Xinhua News Agency. As a result, the self random testing rate of meat producers is only 0.4 per cent while it is required to be 4 to 5 per cent of all pigs.

'If we want to eliminate the scandals, besides regulatory improvement, it is an urgent need to develop easier, cheaper, more convenient and wider-spectrum testing methods for regular food products,' Chen told Chemistry World.

So, whose the most scandalous of all? How can we trust ShuangHui to come clean on US?

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