Watch those gift goodie packs...

[Manedwolf]

Check the point of origin on the backs of the snacks and goodies in the "gift boxes of treats" that people tend to give and leave around the office, 'cause it seems the FDA isn't.

One that was just left in the office here, all sorts of the usual in attractive packages with lots of graphic design trendiness. The usual, sausage, olives, cookies...

...and "strawberry cashew milk treats" in a box that looked like a Godiva box, containing milk powder, made before the melamine recall, MADE IN CHINA.

Check the ingredients on those things, especially storebought ones. They're cheap for a reason. Go FDA!

[crt360]

Melamine, it's not just for breakfast anymore.

[PTK]

Isn't melamine, you know, absurdly poisonous?

[Manedwolf]

Isn't melamine, you know, absurdly poisonous?

It'll screw up your kidneys. It's used to adulterate milk because it makes the protein content appear higher when tested.

[PTK]

How lovely. My kidneys, already being damaged by antibiotics (thanks, allergies), would hate that stuff.

[K Frame]

Why should the FDA spend my tax money testing free food when they have... you... to do it for them?

FDA 1. "How's he doing?"

FDA 2. "Well, he ate the entire box of Strawberry Melamine Yumyums. Now he's thrashing around on the floor vomiting what looks to be his spleen."

FDA 1. "Hum... Better cut the serving size from half a box to a quarter box."

[myrockfight]

How lovely. My kidneys, already being damaged by antibiotics (thanks, allergies), would hate that stuff.

? You are taking anti-biotics for allergies? Sorry to snoop. That doesn't make any sense to me.

[Marnoot]

? You are taking anti-biotics for allergies? Sorry to snoop. That doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm guessing he was given an antibiotic to which he was allergic, which did a number on his kidneys.

[BlueStarLizzard]

maned,

maybe you should take over for the FDA. seriously. you would do a better job.

i can see it now maned, the food cop. *grin*

[Manedwolf]

maned,

maybe you should take over for the FDA. seriously. you would do a better job.

i can see it now maned, the food cop. *grin*

I'd just rather not have crap in food that can kill or injure you. Especially imports, which is REALLY easy for them to interdict.

They seem more interested in nailing someone for supplying their neighbors with (gasp) unpasteurized whole milk, rather than stopping blatantly adulterated food items from coming in through our ports and ending up on shelves.

Either have an FDA, or don't. Do the job, or total caveat emptor, which would encourage local businesses and farms. But don't give people a false sense of security and then let them eat crap you know is coming in. At least just say "We can't watch it all, you need to read labels and don't be blindly trusting, demand to know what is in things yourself."

And I hate government bureaucrats. I'd be defenestrating people in less than a day.

[Viking]

I'd just rather not have crap in food that can kill or injure you. Especially imports, which is REALLY easy for them to interdict.

They seem more interested in nailing someone for supplying their neighbors with (gasp) unpasteurized whole milk, rather than stopping blatantly adulterated food items from coming in through our ports and ending up on shelves.

Either have an FDA, or don't. Do the job, or total caveat emptor, which would encourage local businesses and farms. But don't give people a false sense of security and then let them eat crap you know is coming in. At least just say "We can't watch it all, you need to read labels and don't be blindly trusting, demand to know what is in things yourself."

And I hate government bureaucrats. I'd be defenestrating people in less than a day.

Ah, you've just provided us with yet another reason why you should be hired to do the job .

[PTK]

I'm guessing he was given an antibiotic to which he was allergic, which did a number on his kidneys.

Yep. Damn near killed me, too. Nerve damage, kidney problems, potassium problems, adrenal glands near destroyed. Real fun. 

[BlueStarLizzard]

if you can't deal with being an official, maybe you should have a tv show. i'm sure the rateings would be aided by all the aps folk.

"The Maned show: Do you know what your eating?"

awesome.

[Gewehr98]

Ok, so it's unanimous.

Manedwolf for the next head of the FDA.

Grandpa Shooter for the next Secretary of Defense.

(BTW, my supposed conversations with Blagojevich over the upcoming Ministry of Snark position never happened...)   

[Scout26]

And I hate government bureaucrats. I'd be defenestrating people in less than a day.

Need an assistant or maybe just someone to hold the window open for you ??