RE: USA's non-existent SANITARY FOOD TRANSPORTATION ACT

["Campbell, Jon" <Campbell@Rational.Com>]

Bill,
 
      You're quite right. When we have contamination in our food, it's not
considered a big deal. The chicken contamination was 3-4 ppt, 100 times
greater than usual and 3-4 times that of burgers. A week of articles in the
news, and then silence.
 
     That's why Monsanto (our old friend) has gotten away with providing
genetically tampered soy (over 50% of the crop this year), cotton, and corn
to US farmers, having never tested the stuff on humans, never providing any
environmental impact study (even though the tampered genes are in the POLLEN
and can spread through "horizontal gene transfer"), and making sure that the
USDA and FDA did not require labeling and making sure that all the grain is
mixed so you can't know whether you're eating it.
 
     The Belgian authorities have invalidated my theory; it was apparently
not compressor oil, leaving open only the option of deliberate introduction
of toxic waste. Hard to believe?
 
Kind Regards,
To Your Health
Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Patterson [mailto:bphata@sedona.net]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 12:58 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list DIOXIN-L
Subject: RE: USA's non-existent SANITARY FOOD TRANSPORTATION ACT



At 11:14 AM 6/7/99 -0400, Campbell, Jon wrote: 

>Tony, 

> I believe that what they meant by "motor oil" was not, in fact, 

>automobile engine oil, but compressor oil. This is just a surmise, but I 

>believe what happened is another Yusho incident: coolant or hydraulic oil 

>from a machine in the factory getting mixed in with the product. I have not


>seen any PCB/dioxin cogener analysis of the contamination, but it seems 

>highly unlikely that the manufacturer of animal/vegetable oil would 

>purposely dispose of toxic waste in this way, and the concentrations any 

>other way (shipping containers, etc) seem unlikely. 

> 

>Jon 


Hi Jon, 

I guess all the facts will come out in the trial. :-( This has cost the
folks of Belgium and other countries Millions and Millions of dollars.
Someone is going to be suing someone over this one. My question is, when
this happened last year in this country (Tyson Chickens- Dioxin ruling keeps
2,000 workers home Plunkett, C., Chaney, D. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, July
15, 1997), why wasn't there such a fuss about it. Chickens were shipped out
all over the U.S. but I don't recall anyone going ballistic over it. Besides
according to the Air Forces Ranch Hand studies the stuff won't hurt you
anywho. (Just kidding of course) 

To your health, 

Bill Patterson 

Sedona, Arizona 

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