China bans shellfish imports from West Coast

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soundkite
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China bans shellfish imports from West Coast

Post by soundkite » Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:08 am

Due to arsenic and toxin in geoducks...
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zen leecher
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Re: China bans shellfish imports from West Coast

Post by zen leecher » Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:38 am

With China's quality control on what goes into their products that's like the pot calling the kettle black.

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Re: China bans shellfish imports from West Coast

Post by natetreat » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:25 am

Interesting.

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MarkFromSea
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Re: China bans shellfish imports from West Coast

Post by MarkFromSea » Sun Dec 15, 2013 1:29 pm

Wheat a month or so ago, now, shellfish from the West Coast. In between was the grab of International and Japanese waters and a near miss between Chinese and US military vessels. Can you say "Power Play?"
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Re: China bans shellfish imports from West Coast

Post by Mordalphus » Sun Dec 15, 2013 6:07 pm

Sorry, but I would hope our government would reject contaminated food as well. It's what we get for trying pass off sub-par goods to one of our biggest buyers.

Could politics be involved? Damn right, but who the hell would want shellfish that tested positive for red tide? Yuck.

And they said "it could last months", which in un-hyped up, non media talk means "it probably will be business as usual in a week or two"

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Re: China bans shellfish imports from West Coast

Post by Jay K » Sun Dec 15, 2013 10:05 pm

$61 million (China's share) is nothing to sneeze at… Interesting article - thanks.

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Re: China bans shellfish imports from West Coast

Post by MotoBoat » Mon Dec 16, 2013 5:21 pm

If China keeps denying shipments. How are we going to deliver the interest payment on the barrowed money? =D>

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