FDA: UK food unfit for human consumption


I don't like Toad in the Hole either, but this is just embarassing.

HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.

US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.

Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.

And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent for incineration.

One British aid worker last night called the move "sickening senselessness" and said furious colleagues were "spitting blood".

The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a huge warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had already left to be distributed.

Granted this is from the Mirror, but such is life under the FDA; where an unelected bureaucracy tells people they're better off starving than eating uninspected food, or better off dying than taking experimental medication.


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Our ever vigilant bureaucrats, protecting us against British mad-cow disease nearly a decade after the Brits licked it, and never mind that there's now more to worry about with Canadian-American cows.

Now, if it was an opinion as to British cooking, I could almost see it. But some Cajun seasoning will make anything taste like what Nawliners are used to.

Posted by: markm at September 21, 2005 12:32 PM

Maybe they're afraid the consumers will get dental conditions similar to the British; have you ever noticed how many of them have bad teeth?

Posted by: Robert Garrard at September 21, 2005 1:49 PM

Leave it to the idiots at the FDA to make such a irresponsible decision what did MICHEAL JACOBSON and his health freaks at CSPI conister it nonutritios more them the Fredarl Death Administers

Posted by: screaming eagle at September 21, 2005 3:38 PM

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