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Much to the chagrin of Beijing, plenty in the news on China today:
* The New York Times editorial board says exeuting the food and drug regulator is not enough;
* Senator Dick Durbin (D IL) introduced a bill
to make companies exporting to the U.S. pay a fee, and show their
country's food standards are equivalent to the U.S. (We know this
paper harmonization has been a farce before, but it is a good step);
* China's meek and insufficient response to reports of slave labor in Shanxi Province met with outrage;
* Yesterday, an op-ed called for a full ban on Chinese seafood in "Catfish with a side of Scombroid";
* China suspends imports from certain quality food purveyors, Tyson, Cargill & Sanderson Farms.
This looks like sour grapes, but Tyson and Cargill got engaged to get
rid of the Canada mad cow beef ban because of their Canadian feedlots
and processing plants, so the ban could be a play to get the companies'
lobbyists engaged in trying to make the food scare go away in the U.S.
Congress;
* And speaking of Canadians and their mad cows, R-CALF presented oral argument last Friday in the 9th Circuit in Portland Oregon.
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