How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

re: How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

Beccadog — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:50:16 GMT

Even if you know the source of your food, you and I are not protected from airborne emissions of toxic waste incinerators, especially those that burn deadly PCBs.

If these PCBs from Mexico are allowed to come into the USA, it will open the flood gates to the importation of more PCBs and other toxic wastes from Mexico and other countries. Our lives, and that of our children are at risk.

Please get involved.

If you would like the full letter that I received from a knowledgeable source in Texas (a PhD expert in air quality matters), please let me know.

You can write me at ssksnow@cox.net

re: How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

Beccadog — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:45:17 GMT

This can be stopped if enough readers write to
Stephen Johnson

Administrator

Environmental Protection Agency

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20460

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Docket Center

By email to <rcra-docket@epa.gov>

Docket ID No.: EPA-HQ-RCRA-2008-0123

Please mention some of the points in my post and request that Mr. Johnson not approve the request by Veolia to bring PCBs into the United States to burn
them.

It matters not where you live, PCBs have already built up in salmon both farm raised and wild. Wherever the winds blow and jet stream transports them, these toxic chemicals will contaminate more food from the sea and from the land. They end up in the bodies of humans, which top the food chain, and are exported during pregnancy to the human (and animal) fetus. Our children are born with a hefty supply of deadly PCBs, dioxins and furans in their bodies.

According to an excerpted study at the National Insitutes of Health/National Library of Medicine:
Deaths that occurred up to 5 1/2 yr after
first exposure to PCB's ...
were reported. Nine (41%) of 22 deaths were due to malignant neoplasms. Three
of the tumors occurred in the stomach, one in the liver, two in the lung and
one in the breast, and two were malignant lymphomas.

[IARC.

Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Man.

Geneva: World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer,

1972-PRESENT. (Multivolume work). Pg. V18 82 (1978)]**PEER REVIE

re: How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

Beccadog — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:30:22 GMT

The Environmental Protection Agency has been requested by
Veolia Environmental Services to allow them to import and burn 40 million
pounds of deadly polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) liquid waste from Mexico to
Port Arthur, Texas at Veolia's toxic waste incinerator, which has not installed
either a PCB or dioxin stack continuous emissions monitoring system to measure
the emissions of unburned PCB's and dioxins being released from its smokestack.

Toxic waste incinerators are known to experience myriad of
malfunctions, upsets, fires, explosions and other hazardous operations that
could produce much higher rates of toxic emissions.

When PCB's are burned, they are not completely
destroyed, some are left in the stack, some are transformed into more toxic
chlorinated dibenzo dioxins and furans, which are known to damage the immune
system, increase the risks of cancers, endometriosis in women, reduced sperm
count in men, developmental disorders in the developing fetus of humans and
other animals. RISKS ARE EXPORTED THROUGH AGRICULTURE, including GRASS FED BEEF, DAIRY, and other animal products. Buying certified organic does not help because
the toxic air emissions and wastewater discharges contaminate everything
wherever the winds blow and waters flow.

re: How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

Beccadog — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:05:41 GMT

Our food has become more contaminated due to lack of regulation and control of industrial emissions which contaminate agriculture, including grass fed beef, raw dairy, and other animal food products.

re: How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

Charisse — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:42:52 GMT

FYI.....

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS....(FAO/WHO)...google it...get informed.....

the SECURITY and PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP (SPP)...started in 2005 without congressional approval......

NAFTA is already in place.............North American Union doesn't seem far behind with all the work being done with the SPP

check out the ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND recent topics from the POCANTICO CONFERENCE CENTER MEETINGS (wikipedia et al.)

there is so much going on with the world's food supply that we aren't even aware of.....the FDA is just the tip of the iceberg.......know the source of your food

re: How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

New to Natural — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:56:23 GMT

Buy local or grow your own and you won't even have to deal with the FDA.

re: How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

ZPE — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:17:21 GMT

.....Braley [D-Iowa] said. "The FDA needs to be given the authority and resources to do their job and ensure that our food supply is safe."

Poor misguided individual....

The FDA can be trusted to do this????

They have a great track record...NOT!

re: How Safe is the U.S. Food Supply?

Islander — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:37:06 GMT

Here's the root of the problem:
You can't pass a law against greed.