Your Comments On Chinese Food

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Chinese Cabbage (Photo: Alice Henneman/Flickr)

Chinese Cabbage (Photo: Alice Henneman/Flickr)

Following yesterday’s interview with food consumer writer Mitch Lipka, anchor Lisa Mullins combs through some of the thoughts from listeners on why they won’t buy food products from China.

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7 comments for “Your Comments On Chinese Food”

  • Anonymous

    Overall I would agree with Mr. Lipka’s take on Chinese food products and food safety in general, but his segue from ground beef being one of the biggest domestic food safety problems to a description of a “grocery store that let’s its meat expire and resells it” causing people to be sick bears clarification. This sets up the false impression that “old” meat  will cause illness, ergo, fresh meat will not. That is no where near the truth. Most pathogenic bacteria will not grow at refrigeration temperatures and even those that do grow very slowly. Meats, and other limited shelf-life foods, have expiration dates based on the growth of food spoilage bacteria(not to be confused with pathogenic bacteria) and chemical changes that together cause a product to be organoleptically unacceptable. Foods susceptible to spoilage, hence having a shelf-life, may contain pathogenic organisms of sufficient numbers to make someone ill long before they expire or become “spoiled”. That is why proper handling and cooking should always be followed regardless of the age or condition of the food.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for your program about food safety issues and, in particular, food from China.  I do not buy any food, or any product in which food is cooked or stored, from China.  I have lost trust in the safety of all products from China, but especially food. I read labels carefully and insist on knowing the origin of ingredients.  I phone companies to find out where their products come from.  I seldom buy produce from far away places.  I learned from your program about Trader Joe’s policy, which I applaud.  I will do more shopping there.  If I cannot find out the origin of a food, I won’t buy it. Not ever. I feel we have a right to know, and make our own choices.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chung-deh-Tien/100000103336061 Chung-deh Tien

    i am in my 40s and have and always will buy food from Chinese supermarket, either from china or elsewhere. been doing it all my life and will not stop now!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/박종인/100003272664374 박종인

    wow!~ I have already come!! surprise~!!http://youtu.be/zXKV78VERio

  • Anonymous

    I don’t trust any foods that come from China.  There is simply no way to know what chemicals are in that food or if it even is what it is labeled as.  China has absolutely no accountability.  I will not eat anything from that country.  Most candies today are made in China, and nearly 100% of apple juice concentrate comes from there.  Most juice mixes are made with apple juice concentrate as the base.  Next time you buy juice, look on the label.  If it says “concentrate from China,” don’t buy it!

  • Anonymous

    I’d like to ask Clark Boyd and Rob Hugh-Jones whose item “Melting down hips and knees: The afterlife of implants” the following:  what happens to gold teeth at the crematorium?

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