The FDA Is Watching Out For Us… Again…

Why do we even bother with the FDA?

At least 1 million pounds of suspect Chinese seafood landed on American store shelves and dinner plates despite a Food and Drug Administration order that the shipments first be screened for banned drugs or chemicals, an Associated Press investigation found.

The frozen shrimp, catfish and eel arrived at U.S. ports under an "import alert," which meant the FDA was supposed to hold every shipment until it had passed a laboratory test.

But that was not what happened, according to an AP check of shipments since last fall. One of every four shipments the AP reviewed got through without being stopped and tested. The seafood, valued at $2.5 million, was equal to the amount 66,000 Americans eat in a year.

FDA officials stuck the pond-raised seafood on their watch list because of worries it contained suspected carcinogens or antibiotics not approved for seafood.

The FDA has to be the most worthless agency in our federal government. The only time we hear from them is when they recall something, which of course, is after someone usually gets sick or dies from ingesting something the FDA probably should have caught in the first place.

So, when are they going to start actually doing the job we have been paying them to do all these years? When will they test the foods they say they are going to test? When will they inspect the plants they say they are going to inspect?

My bet is nothing will change. Me might as well add a U.C.K.E. before the D. and get it over with.