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Big-name U.S. food companies are teaming up with cheese importers, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the European Union in trying to block the expansion of dairy promotion assessments beyond the 48 contiguous United States.
U.S. regulators have tightened restrictions on meat and poultry products from Canada because of concerns about testing practices at a Canadian firm that was the likely source of bacteria-contaminated meat that sickened 40 people in eight states.
Chief Executive Lee Scott defended Wal-Mart's reliance on low-cost imports Thursday against what he called emerging economic nationalism. Scott told a retailing conference he would like to stock more American-made goods but that Wal-Mart's business model is based on offering the lowest price for consumers who cannot afford to spend more.
President Bush on Wednesday established a Cabinet-level panel to recommend how to guarantee the safety of imported food and other products brought into the country and how to police them better.
Not all of us can afford to go 100% organic. The solution? Focus on just those foods that are laden with the highest amounts of pesticides, chemicals, additives and hormones and deploy your organic spending power on buying organic versions of these whenever possible.
Trader Joe's grocery stores are dropping foods from China to satisfy customers concerned about the quality of that country's products after last year's spate of problems...
The following is from a chain email that I received, I don't believe in blind email chains so I don't encourage you to send this information along likewise, but I do put it out there as one interesting approach that we can take to send a message to people in power that the status …
Keep up the pressure on the FDA to do its job, and correctly!
Toxic imports, like lead paint in toys, are the result of trading with much lesser-developed countries which have no incentive to raise safety, labor or environmental standards. Cheap goods from countries like China have an expensive price.
"Such incidents feed perceptions in the West that the Chinese can't be trusted. But Robert Kapp, a business consultant with a doctorate in Chinese history, noted that the term "snake oil" was invented in the United States during the era of cowboy capitalism.
What can Utah do to block the disposal of radioactive waste from Italy in Tooele County? Would refusal to accept the waste - 1,600 tons of contaminated ash from imported waste incinerated in Tennessee - be a violation of the U.S.
It seems a given that if the U.S. economy slows down, Asia will follow because of its dependence on exports to American consumers. But it may not be so.
So here's what I don't understand: Why do so many of our presidential candidates, and a surprising proportion of the American population, believe that we should impose trade sanctions on ourselves? After all, if you believe that the United States should trade less with the world …
Hopefully, the new highs in the price of oil may cause the United States to take notice, and drop consumption.
This technical conference provides the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the opportunity to hear from knowledgeable industry experts and discuss the challenges facing the natural gas industry and its customers.
Yes, the greenback is weak. But this time the culprit isn't George Bush and his tax cuts; it's the policy that led to an overvalued US currency.
As if it was not bad enough to have toys imported from China with lead paint , poisoned pajamas and pet food that killed animals...now we are going to import food from there that I am supposed to feed my family???? What are they smoking in Washington??
Consumers say they will buy toys this holiday season- including toys made in China, despite recent safety-related recalls of popular toys made there by leading manufacturers.
A consortium of scientists from almost 50 nations is overseeing the building of a global database made from tiny pieces of genetic material.
The problems faced by consumers in choosing American made products over imports.
Qualcomm is running out of options as a trade ban goes into effect that will prohibit the import into the U.S. of any 3G handset using Qualcomm chips that have been found to infringe on patents owned by rival Broadcom.
"However, even inside China, there have been shocking revelations in recent months: Pigs fattened on force-fed wastewater, dairy cows given so many antibiotics they can't produce yogurt from their milk and lard made from sewage.
A hysteria of sorts has been generated by reports that some of China's products lack quality control. Some cat food has been tainted. A few cell phone batteries have blown up. Cough syrup contained stuff that makes you sick. And so on.
CBNNews.com - Concern about food made in China has the government there scrambling -- and many shoppers here in the U.S. confused. With billions of food dollars at stake, serious damage control efforts are underway, both here and overseas.
The next made-in-China export bound for the United States: cars. Chrysler Group on Wednesday signed a deal with China's biggest automaker, Chery, to launch a low-cost production venture that could export the first Chinese-made cars to the United States.
India alone grows 1,000 varieties of mangoes in such delectable variations as the sweet, orange-skinned Alphonso, the Bombay Green and the Bangalora. Here in the U.S., we rarely see more than one lonely variety at the local supermarket, but that's all about to change.
Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China.
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