07-16-2007, 09:14 PM
<b>Indian food tops list of shipments rejected by US</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->NEW YORK: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected <b>1,763 food shipments from India</b>, 1,480 from Mexico and 1,368 from China in the 12-month period ending in June this year.
Some of Indiaâs spices, seeds and shrimp contained salmonella while Mexicoâs seafood, chillies and cheese were found too filthy to eat. Chinese products like seafood, bean curd and noodles were also filthy, âThe New York Timesâ has reported. But the FDA did not reveal the quantity of the products turned back, making it impossible to determine whether it was just a box of produce or an entire shipload, the Times pointed out. While China is hammered for defective food exports to the US, government records showed that food products from India and Mexico have been rejected more often than those from China. Coming after China were the Dominican Republic, Denmark, Vietnam, Japan, Italy and Indonesia, all of them for shipping contaminated food.
A total of 543 shipments were rejected from Denmark and 482 from Italy, the only two European countries among the nine countries with the most number of rejected shipments. In the cases of Italy, Denmark and Japan, problems with labels or documentation were cited as the main offences. China sent more products to the US than any of these countries, in terms of dollar value. China shipped goods worth a total $288 billion to the US in 2006, compared with Mexicoâs $198 billion, <b>Indiaâs $22 billion </b>and the Dominican Republicâs $5.3 billion.
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Some of Indiaâs spices, seeds and shrimp contained salmonella while Mexicoâs seafood, chillies and cheese were found too filthy to eat. Chinese products like seafood, bean curd and noodles were also filthy, âThe New York Timesâ has reported. But the FDA did not reveal the quantity of the products turned back, making it impossible to determine whether it was just a box of produce or an entire shipload, the Times pointed out. While China is hammered for defective food exports to the US, government records showed that food products from India and Mexico have been rejected more often than those from China. Coming after China were the Dominican Republic, Denmark, Vietnam, Japan, Italy and Indonesia, all of them for shipping contaminated food.
A total of 543 shipments were rejected from Denmark and 482 from Italy, the only two European countries among the nine countries with the most number of rejected shipments. In the cases of Italy, Denmark and Japan, problems with labels or documentation were cited as the main offences. China sent more products to the US than any of these countries, in terms of dollar value. China shipped goods worth a total $288 billion to the US in 2006, compared with Mexicoâs $198 billion, <b>Indiaâs $22 billion </b>and the Dominican Republicâs $5.3 billion.
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