FRIDAY'S 'EAT ZINC!' Chinese vendor of zinc and melamine arrested
Eat melamine, as advertised on Alibaba. We Americans'll buy anything as long as it's cheap.
See the above pic! It's from Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology's Alibaba page in the global market. It's a picture of the company's melamine product, disguised as "ESB protein powder," advertised alongside its fresh "Zinc Oxide of Feedstuff," "fresh carrot" and "fresh ginger." (Visit quick, it won't last forever.)
On Tuesday, your GlobalSecurity.Org Senior Fellow's blog pointed you right at Xuzhou pages on Alibaba in its unpopular week-long series, EAT ZINC!
On Tuesday, DD was outraged to find the inert white powder, zinc oxide, being sold as a food additive.
In subsequent days, we analyzed the idiotic use of zinc oxide as a trace contaminant in animal feeds. We vigorously and thoughtfully explained why zinc oxide powder was not good. The sheer nonsense of it being sold as a food additive was explored. And Wednesday we took a look at Xuzhou Anying's horrible website (incidentally, xzay.com -- surf out before it goes away) and its description for "zinc oxide of feedstuff."
We said Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology's webpage made crap look good. We made the joke that perhaps it was time to reclassify iron filings as food if one were to believe the rubbish from it.
And today, on PAGE 3 -- you read right, page 3 -- of the C Section, of the Los Angeles Times, buried -- so as perhaps not to annoy businessmen doing global trade with Chinese food additive vendors, it is reported:
"Chinese authorities [have arrested] the head of a Chinese company [Xuzhou Anying] suspected of shipping melamine-contaminated wheat gluten to pet suppliers ... according to a report in the New York Times."
Here is the NYT report.
NY Times reporter David Barboza had been on the case since early in the week, reporting that Chinese firms were brewing up melamine to sell to feed vendors.
And during the week, it became increasingly obvious that Xuzhou Anying's webpages stank to high heaven.
But even DD was surprised at the brass of actually advertising melamine, under the name of a food, at Alibaba, right next to carrots and ginger.
Two out of four Xuzhou Anying products were and are poison. Any bets on what the carrots were made of? Orange crayons, anyone? How 'bout the ginger? The roots of big weeds and thistles from your backyard?
Who knows if the zinc oxide is even actually zinc oxide? Maybe it's a salt of arsenic!
If Xuzhou Anying Biologic's boss, Mao Lijun, had been that of a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden's, this wouldn't be a story just for page three of the business section. "Terrorist who mowed down thousands of pets with poison is captured by military," would be the headline. And then you would read how he'd been shipped off to Guantanamo or some other nameless place. It wouldn't be buried in the back end of the business section so as not to annoy the lubricators of the global market, many who are probably busy saying now that it really isn't fair to condemn an entire network of outsourced food preparation for a couple slip-ups in China.
But since it is all about greed -- greed that only incidentally has caused fear and pain -- our usual counter-terror windbags, those fond of always reminding us that terrorists are getting ready to strike, have been silent.
"Consumers have reported the deaths of as many as 8,500 dogs and cats as a result of tainted pet food, federal officials said Thurdsay," wrote the LA Times. "Officials said the agency had not confirmed those reports but added that the number of allegations were likely to rise as it caught up with the backlog of calls reporting sick or dead animals."
Snapshot of Xuzhou Anying Biological Technology's poisoned foods advertisements on the global market trader website, Alibaba. Includes melamine fraudulently branded as ESB protein powder. Visit quick before it's gone.
In the ever-changing story of pet food contamination, it is easy to lose track of the expanding scale of it and the immensity of collusion that must be involved.
Menu Foods, the company first involved in the recall of tainted food, again expanded its recall this week to include three million more pet food parcels. Earlier in the week, Wilbur-Ellis Feeds did not even include a mention of the crisis on its webpage devoted to description of its animal feed products.
While it would be tempting to think the worst is over when a boss at the most egregious company in China is arrested, the American pet food industry has much explaining to do.
Why, for example, would anyone do business with a company whose products, upon early examination of advertising materials, appear so dodgy?
These are questions for a government actually interested in oversight and protecting the security of the food of its citizens. So far, nothing of particularly great interest has emerged from Congressional hearings on the subject.
It would be good to hold the government's feet to the fire. It would also be good to keep ChemNutra, Menu Foods, Wilbur-Ellis and many other domestic partners also on the stick. Because it's a lead pipe cinch it won't be doable in China.
Related:
Yesterday's EAT ZINC!
Wednesday's EAT ZINC!
Tuesday's EAT ZINC!
Incidental agroterrorism.
Eat melamine, as advertised on Alibaba. We Americans'll buy anything as long as it's cheap.
See the above pic! It's from Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology's Alibaba page in the global market. It's a picture of the company's melamine product, disguised as "ESB protein powder," advertised alongside its fresh "Zinc Oxide of Feedstuff," "fresh carrot" and "fresh ginger." (Visit quick, it won't last forever.)
On Tuesday, your GlobalSecurity.Org Senior Fellow's blog pointed you right at Xuzhou pages on Alibaba in its unpopular week-long series, EAT ZINC!
On Tuesday, DD was outraged to find the inert white powder, zinc oxide, being sold as a food additive.
In subsequent days, we analyzed the idiotic use of zinc oxide as a trace contaminant in animal feeds. We vigorously and thoughtfully explained why zinc oxide powder was not good. The sheer nonsense of it being sold as a food additive was explored. And Wednesday we took a look at Xuzhou Anying's horrible website (incidentally, xzay.com -- surf out before it goes away) and its description for "zinc oxide of feedstuff."
We said Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology's webpage made crap look good. We made the joke that perhaps it was time to reclassify iron filings as food if one were to believe the rubbish from it.
And today, on PAGE 3 -- you read right, page 3 -- of the C Section, of the Los Angeles Times, buried -- so as perhaps not to annoy businessmen doing global trade with Chinese food additive vendors, it is reported:
"Chinese authorities [have arrested] the head of a Chinese company [Xuzhou Anying] suspected of shipping melamine-contaminated wheat gluten to pet suppliers ... according to a report in the New York Times."
Here is the NYT report.
NY Times reporter David Barboza had been on the case since early in the week, reporting that Chinese firms were brewing up melamine to sell to feed vendors.
And during the week, it became increasingly obvious that Xuzhou Anying's webpages stank to high heaven.
But even DD was surprised at the brass of actually advertising melamine, under the name of a food, at Alibaba, right next to carrots and ginger.
Two out of four Xuzhou Anying products were and are poison. Any bets on what the carrots were made of? Orange crayons, anyone? How 'bout the ginger? The roots of big weeds and thistles from your backyard?
Who knows if the zinc oxide is even actually zinc oxide? Maybe it's a salt of arsenic!
If Xuzhou Anying Biologic's boss, Mao Lijun, had been that of a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden's, this wouldn't be a story just for page three of the business section. "Terrorist who mowed down thousands of pets with poison is captured by military," would be the headline. And then you would read how he'd been shipped off to Guantanamo or some other nameless place. It wouldn't be buried in the back end of the business section so as not to annoy the lubricators of the global market, many who are probably busy saying now that it really isn't fair to condemn an entire network of outsourced food preparation for a couple slip-ups in China.
But since it is all about greed -- greed that only incidentally has caused fear and pain -- our usual counter-terror windbags, those fond of always reminding us that terrorists are getting ready to strike, have been silent.
"Consumers have reported the deaths of as many as 8,500 dogs and cats as a result of tainted pet food, federal officials said Thurdsay," wrote the LA Times. "Officials said the agency had not confirmed those reports but added that the number of allegations were likely to rise as it caught up with the backlog of calls reporting sick or dead animals."
Snapshot of Xuzhou Anying Biological Technology's poisoned foods advertisements on the global market trader website, Alibaba. Includes melamine fraudulently branded as ESB protein powder. Visit quick before it's gone.
In the ever-changing story of pet food contamination, it is easy to lose track of the expanding scale of it and the immensity of collusion that must be involved.
Menu Foods, the company first involved in the recall of tainted food, again expanded its recall this week to include three million more pet food parcels. Earlier in the week, Wilbur-Ellis Feeds did not even include a mention of the crisis on its webpage devoted to description of its animal feed products.
While it would be tempting to think the worst is over when a boss at the most egregious company in China is arrested, the American pet food industry has much explaining to do.
Why, for example, would anyone do business with a company whose products, upon early examination of advertising materials, appear so dodgy?
These are questions for a government actually interested in oversight and protecting the security of the food of its citizens. So far, nothing of particularly great interest has emerged from Congressional hearings on the subject.
It would be good to hold the government's feet to the fire. It would also be good to keep ChemNutra, Menu Foods, Wilbur-Ellis and many other domestic partners also on the stick. Because it's a lead pipe cinch it won't be doable in China.
Related:
Yesterday's EAT ZINC!
Wednesday's EAT ZINC!
Tuesday's EAT ZINC!
Incidental agroterrorism.
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