WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO MAKE OUR FOOD SAFE?

Here is an article on Food and Waterwatch.org, titled "FDA Fakes a Passing Grade" : http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/press/releases/fda-fakes-a-passing-grade20081201 It ticks off all the shortcomings of the future plans of the FDA to make our food safe.

I read another article with an excerpt that reads:
"...The first FDA office will be opened Wednesday in Beijing, followed by one in Guangzhou and another in Shanghai. They will be followed by offices in India and Latin America by the end of the year as the FDA tries to globalize its presence. The staffers will inspect local facilities, provide guidance on US quality standards, and eventually train local experts to conduct inspections on behalf of the FDA.
"We are embarking on a system that will recognize the need to ensure that everything that comes to the USA has been subject to either heightened scrutiny by our regulators or has been certified as meeting our standards by someone we trust," Leavitt said...."

Can you believe that?? Train local experts to conduct inspections on the behalf of the FDA!! Doesn't the FDA understand that they cannot trust anyone in China to do the job that the U.S. is supposed to be doing - and isn't!

Please folks, let your Congressmen and Senators know you are not happy with the way our food is being inspected.

Another article I read from the AP press http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jP0C1Aoi0pUm3LIAfqDoB4Dpi8BwD9537BP80 states there are even MORE nonfood additives that are dangerous besides melamine - like boric acid and lye - that are being added to the food supply! Why does this blatant disregard of the safety of U.S. citizens have to be ignored until millions, yes millions of people are dead from ingesting deadly food. Just think, if imported food comes into this country with the assumption that it is safe, how hard would it be for terrorists to spike food ingredients that are imported into the USA and is incorporated in food products made here in the USA by our big national food companies?