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CHICKEN PROCESSED IN CHINA TRIGGERS
U.S. FOOD SAFETY PROTESTS

By Brian Wingfield & Shruti Date Singh
Sep 27, 2013 1:46 PM GMT+1200
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-27/chicken-processed-in-china-triggers-u-s-food-safety-protests.html

Food-safety advocates are raising alarms over a decision by the Obama
administration to permit chicken processed in China to be sold in the U.S.
even after several high-profile incidents of food contamination.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in addressing a decade-long trade
dispute over farm imports, said it will allow poultry slaughtered in the
U.S. and Canada to be processed in China and returned to the U.S. for
consumption. Critics are vowing to fight the decision, which they say puts
consumers at risk due to lax Chinese factory oversight.

A woman picks out chicken wings and legs at a market in Shanghai.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg
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“The Chinese food-safety system has had significant failures in the
enforcement of its food-safety laws and regulations,” Senator Charles
Schumer wrote in a Sept. 16 letter to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack.

The issue is the latest flashpoint for U.S. concerns over the safety of
goods from China, which since 2007 have included tainted baby formula and
evidence of the chemical melamine in pet food and eggs. China in recent
months has had an outbreak of avian influenza in its chicken flocks and in
March, Shanghai authorities retrieved more than 11,000 dead pigs floating in
a river.

“Consumers should know that any processed poultry from China will be
produced under equivalent food safety standards and conditions as U.S.
poultry,” the Agriculture Department said in a fact sheet.

Poultry producers say almost all the chicken eaten in the U.S. will still be
produced and processed domestically. The U.S. government currently allows
Canada, Chile, France and Israel to export processed poultry to the U.S.

“Ninety-nine percent of the chicken we consume here is hatched, raised and
processed in the U.S.,” Tom Super, a spokesman for the National Chicken
Council, a Washington-based industry group, said in an e-mail. “We don’t
expect that to change any time soon.”

Officials from the Chinese embassy in Washington didn’t respond to e-mail or
phone requests for comment.

The U.S. last year exported $354.1 million worth of poultry products to
China, representing about 7 percent of total U.S. poultry exports, according
to Census Bureau data. The U.S. doesn’t currently import poultry from China.

“There’s a concern that this might be the first step to that,” Chris
Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of
America in Washington, said by phone.

Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN), the largest U.S. meat processor, chicken producer
Sanderson Farms Inc. (SAFM), and McDonald’s Corp. (MCD), the world’s largest
restaurant chain, are among companies that don’t plan to import processed
chicken from China, according to company officials.

Stronger Safeguards

That hasn’t stopped Democrats in Congress, including Senator Sherrod Brown
of Ohio and Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, from seeking
assurances from the USDA that food supplies will be safe. New York’s Schumer
has asked for additional audits of Chinese plants and more inspections of
U.S. meat imports.

There is precedent for an accord for China to process U.S. food items. The
U.S. currently allows shrimp to be sent to China for processing, including
breading, Theresa Eisenman, a Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman, said
in an e-mail.

The U.S. last year imported $1.9 billion worth of seafood from China -- far
more than any other food product, according to Census Bureau data. Shrimp
and prawns accounted for almost $70 million worth of the goods.

Labor Intensive

“There will probably be some company that can see some niche market” for
chicken shipments from China to the U.S., Toby Moore, a spokesman for the
USA Poultry & Egg Export Council based in Stone Mountain, Georgia, said in a
phone interview.

Processing chicken is a labor-intensive endeavor that can’t be done solely
by machines and the “lower cost in China is the advantage,” Chris Hurt, a
professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University in West Lafayette,
Indiana, said in a telephone interview. Those savings in labor costs can
counterbalance the higher price tag to ship the end product, Hurt said.

Food-safety advocates have been watching China closely this year as the U.S.
government reviewed the purchase of Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD), the world’s
largest hog and pork producer, by Hong Kong-based Shuanghui International
Holdings Ltd.

“China does not have a food-safety system that allows for any level of
top-down management like we have in the United States,” Patricia Buck,
director of outreach and education for the Center for Foodborne Illness
Research & Prevention in Raleigh, North Carolina, a non-profit food-safety
advocate, said by phone.

Awaiting Identification

The next step is for China to identify companies that will process imported
poultry, Stacy Kish, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department’s Food
Safety and Inspection Service, said by phone. Processed chicken from China
must be labeled as a product of the Asian nation, according to the agency.

Food-safety advocates say that while poultry processed in China would have
to be labeled, chicken that’s repackaged into chicken nuggets or wings and
served in restaurants wouldn’t necessarily carry the designation.

Consumer Rights

“Even though we’re going to be shipping our poultry to China, there’s no
guarantee that that’s what we’re going to be getting back,” Tony Corbo, a
lobbyist with Washington-based Food & Water Watch, said in a phone
interview. “There are all sorts of consumer right-to-know issues going on
here.”

Kish, with the Agriculture Department, said “We do not believe the product
would be repackaged in the United States.” If it were, it would have to be
done so by Agriculture Department inspectors and labeled as a product of the
U.S., she said in an e-mail.

In 2004 China asked the Agriculture Department to audit its processing
plants so that poultry could be exported, according to the agency. The U.S.
Congress in 2009 lifted a ban on Chinese-processed poultry, and after a
final audit of China’s plants in March, the U.S. agency in August agreed
that China’s facilities were equivalent to those in the U.S.

Under the terms of the agreement, chicken sent to China for processing must
be raised and slaughtered in either the U.S. or Canada, and all poultry must
be fully cooked at least 165.2 degrees Fahrenheit (74 degrees Celsius)
before being sent back to the U.S. to be eaten. USDA inspections will occur
at U.S. borders, and agency auditors will review China’s poultry processing
system each year.

Plant Inspections

The quality of those inspections may be subject to questioning, since the
administration of President Barack Obama has yet to fully enact the 2011
Food Safety Modernization Act, aimed at being the most sweeping overhaul of
U.S. food safety in 70 years. The administration this year proposed the
first major regulations for domestic and imported food, which Congress
called for after poisonings related to cookie dough, spinach, jalapenos and
other foods killed at least nine people and sickened more than 700 in 2008
and 2009.

Food safety in China probably won’t get better until consumers can freely
speak out against or sue the government and corporations without fear of
retribution, according to Bill Marler, a Seattle-based attorney and
publisher of the trade newsletter Food Safety News.

“Until we have a real sea-change in the rule of law in China, I’d be suspect
about importing food from China,” he said in a phone interview.

To contact the reporters on this story: Brian Wingfield in Washington at
bwingfield3@bloomberg.net; Shruti Date Singh in Chicago at
ssingh28@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jon Morgan at
jmorgan97@bloomberg.net




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