Just thought I would add the tid bits I found too. (The good old USA is not honest in other ways either and to other countries that cannot even protect themselves.

China has been in the news lately for its contaminated exports, but the U.S. is also producing products that contain hazardous chemicals, reports NAM writer, Donal Brown. Brown is a former journalism teacher.

The recent flurry of news reports over the Chinese exports of contaminated consumer products raises the specter of dangerous U.S. products long marketed in the U.S. and around the world.

It has also raised questions for a leading U.S. health expert. "The criticism of China is well-based, but we need to listen to the facts that there are a wide range of hazardous chemicals in U.S. products," said Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, chair of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.
Milk produced with rBGH has been widely banned by nations including 29 European countries: Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Australia. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDÅ) has no restrictions on the milk and no plans for cancer risk waning labels.
"The pesticides that end up in developing countries can do even greater harm because the workers lack protective clothing and equipment. As a result, women and children are often doing the work and are highly susceptible to injury," Smith said.

Figures from FASE show that the U.S. exported tons of extremely, or highly, hazardous pesticides between 2001 and 2003, the most recent years studied. Sixty-seven percent of shipments went to developing countries. The countries importing the most dangerous pesticides were Brazil (11.5 million pounds), Costa Rica (6.5 million pounds), Guatemala (2.9 million pounds) and China (3 million pounds).

On July 19, a trial began in Los Angeles over the exposure of workers in Nicaragua to DBCP or dibromochloropropane. Dow Chemical Co. and Dole Food Co. knew the chemical was damaging but continued to market it. The workers using it were not provided with protective clothing and suffered permanent sterility.

www.organicconsumers.org/...e_6561.cfm

Yes its all we hear about China, and what they export, but we might want to look in our own back yard before casting too many stones.

The workers using it were not provided with protective clothing and suffered permanent sterility. From Dow and Dole!

I find that darn sad, coming from Dow and Dole, plus they knew about it. We know our chemicals made them sterile, but we have no idea what else will happen on down the years.
Yes a lot of bad press about China. But where was/is the Media telling how we made workers sterile?
I find other countries know more about (OUR) Double standards that our own people do.

I am not sure to date if even Japan is accepting our Beef imports, because they test every bit of beef for BSE.
It would not surprise me if we test for them yet don't test for our own consumption.

grace06