Your food is not safe if it contains actual biological organisms called bacteria.  Or if it has actual molecules of poison or harmful antibiotics when you eat it.  If a company or country has issued papers saying the food should be safe, those papers mean nothing if those biological organisms or molecules of poison are still in the food.

That is why the physical food is inspected, or should be inspected.  A study by the Coalition for a Prosperous America shows the contamination found when actual inspections occur.  Food and Water Watch released a report in 2007 showing that less than 2% of our imported seafood was inspected. 

China likes breakneck economic growth more than food safety.  Their seafood export growth has slowed.  Those exports are still growing, but not as fast.  So the country has written some papers saying seafood will be safer.  Those papers are claimed to  be "production standards to imporve safety and guard against the use of illegal veterinary drugs."

The China seafood industry is the very, very large.  Issuing pieces of paper and making claims is not good enough.

China produced about 54 million tons of seafood this year, more than the world’s next nine largest seafood producers combined in 2006. By comparison, the United States produces only about five million tons of seafood a year.

I like seafood.  I like Chinese food.  But my son got sick after eating Chinese seafood about 18 months ago.  I can't prove the connection between the food and the vomiting.  But between that incident, the lack of inspections and the proven contamination, my dining dollars are going elsewhere now.

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