Shrimp (photo by Luis C. Tejo, courtesy of morguefile.com)

It's beginning to look as if there'll be no end to to the worries about food imported from China.

We've been warned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is so overwhelmed by the tremendous increase in imported food that huge amounts are going right to the the tables of American families without any safety inspections. Just recently an alert was issued by the FDA regarding honey from China. Now 5 seafoods, including shrimp, catifsh, eel. basa, and dace have been effectively banned from being sold in the U.S., at least temporarily.

The FDA issued the alert after years of attempts to improve the situation with no signs of results. Some of the contaminants found in the 5 seafoods from China are known to cause cancer in laboratory animals; others are suspected of making humans more resistant to antibiotics. FDA warnings to the Chinese regarding contaminated seafood date back to 2001.

If you'd like to read an article from the New York Times on the topic go to: FDA Issues Alert on Chinese Seafood

To view a previous post on an alert issued against food from China go to: FDA Issues Alert for Honey from China

To view a previous post about concerns over imported food ingredients go to: Imported Food Ingredients Not Inspected