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Today’s Times has an article on the whole Chinese bad-food-imports fiasco. But they’re saying that in terms of absolute number of stoppages, India tops the list. It seems we’re sending the US salmonella-infested peppercorns (and other spices).
Methinks that India is sending several spices in small quantities (compared to the stuff coming in from China, say) and that results in more containers being stopped at the ports. In dollar-terms, China is well above the des. And, it’s Mexico that’s tops the list at $9.8b.
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1 Nikhil // Jul 12, 2007 at 7:57 pm
Am I reading this correctly? Does that graph really say “filth”?
What’s in filth exactly? Salmonella I understand. But filth?
Not that this makes things any better, but the fact that they can at least identify our “filth” doesn’t bode well for the Mexicans, Chinese or Indonesians.
2 The Great Ganesha // Jul 14, 2007 at 4:40 am
lol…
i read somewhere a few weeks ago that in one tea factory in china they actually spread green tea out on to concrete tarmacs and drive trucks over it to dry it. i guess that’s filth!
incidentally, for everyone else: it’s one more reason to buy india-originated tea from the simple leaf…
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