Americans Love Imported Foods but are Too Quick To Blame Them
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May 23, 2012
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Americans consume an incredible amount of imported foods. For shrimp, over 90% of what we consume is imported, for produce, 35%, and some estimates claim that 20% of the total U.S. food supply is imported.1 Whether it’s caviar or truffles or bananas or cookies, we love our food choices, in season and out, and would be devastated if our imported food supplies suddenly dried up. Yet whenever there is a food safety scare (E. coli, Listeria, Salmonella, antibiotics), some Americans are quick to turn on “foreign foods” … READ MORE
For years Benjamin England of FDAImports.com LLC has argued that FDA improperly treats import alerts as automatic detentions and wildly throws around its authority when the agency finds what it calls the “appearance” of a violation of FDA law from evidence other than the examination of samples. FDA has attempted to avoid this allegation by changing the name of its import alerts from “automatic detention” to “detention without physical examination.” It matters because FDA lost several lawsuits alleging that because its “automatic detentions” are actually …