now imagine what is not being discovered..

Keeping food in such a filthy warehouse was clearly the won feng to do.

In related news: FEMA buys foodstuffs for $0.25 on the dollar

This is why I don't eat at chinese restaurants. I rather stick with regular tried and proven american restaurants like Applebees, Red Lobster and Old Country Buffet.

Chinese bastards!

\\Too obscure?

cowgirl toffee: Just exactly do they mean by "other filth"?

I'm sure Gorgor has a picture for that.

But Fox news told me companies would regulate themselves and government was always bad and in the way.

Great that it takes repeated significant violations for this to happen. Hooray.

When I pay $4.99 for a village portion rice dish at a Chinese restaurant, I assume there a variety of issues with the "food."

Who's up for Chinese?

Evil-Imposter: Keeping food in such a filthy warehouse was clearly the won feng to do.

ok i snerfed.

No mention of LEAD or MELAMINE in the article?

/obvious

Won lost.

Interesting.... usually you only hear about the FDA coming down hard on pharma companies and medical equipment manufacturers... this place must have been a sewer with bags of food in it for it to get this kind of treatment.

For those not familiar with FDA's regulations, the FDA has several steps it takes by law to regulate problem companies. An FDA warning letter is NOT equivalent to a UN security council expression of concern.

It's more like the food company looking down at their shirt in the evening and seeing all kinds of little red dots of light wandering over their chest. On receiving an FDA warning letter the company must take and document corrective actions to the FDA's specifications.... OR ELSE.

Failure to do so results in not only the results in this story, but gigantic fines (tens to hundreds of millions... half a billion is not uncommon)... and most interestingly, *arrest* for the officers of the company. I've always felt this was one thing the government got right... if an FDA regulated company violates statutes, they arrest the farking President, CEO, CFO, and even sometimes the IT guy and put 'em in jail, holding them responsible whether they had anything to do with it or not. Kinda makes the executives sit up and take notice.

I wish they did that with Banks, auto makers... heck, most companies that could impact consumers beyond a certain minimum level of serious.

AJ

I'm sure this guy will have no problem with it

This it what really gets me:

Won Feng told the FDA in a June 2009 letter that it had corrected the violations, but a follow-up inspection in November 2009 proved otherwise.

You mean the FDA writes a report like that. Then takes their word for it a month later. Then waits FIVE MONTHS to follow-up?

Apparently "you go now! you here 4 hour!" wasn't the appropriate response...

ShawnDoc: And it only took the feds 9 months to act.

dotnate: This it what really gets me:

Won Feng told the FDA in a June 2009 letter that it had corrected the violations, but a follow-up inspection in November 2009 proved otherwise.

You mean the FDA writes a report like that. Then takes their word for it a month later. Then waits FIVE MONTHS to follow-up?

A) You want to pay for the inspections? They aren't cheap, take too long with too much paperwork, and inspectors are spread incredibly thin among millions of plants, warehouses, stores, and (some) restaurants.

B) Lying to the FDA means much greater fines and possible criminal prosecution, whereas just fixing it is much cheaper.

C) No one reported getting sick. If that happens the banhammer comes down to smite them in days with no option to voluntarily fix it first; just look at the salmonella peanut case last year.

dotnate: This it what really gets me:

Won Feng told the FDA in a June 2009 letter that it had corrected the violations, but a follow-up inspection in November 2009 proved otherwise.

You mean the FDA writes a report like that. Then takes their word for it a month later. Then waits FIVE MONTHS to follow-up?

It's a government agency. To be "fair" they have to follow a cumbersome, bureaucratic process that involves them sending another notice to the target company that no, they didn't fix the problem. Then they wait for a response with a schedule for a fix or denial of the problem, etc.

The process is designed to let large, schizophrenic corporations have a chance to fix problems... large corporations can take months to change direction, like a giant ship or something.

They weren't just sitting on their hands for that time... the FDA would have been holding job interviews for the brute squad, ordering fresh supplies of tar and feathers, flamethrower fuel, and elbow length surgical gloves for the "inspections" to come.

AJ

ichiban: Great that it takes repeated significant violations for this to happen. Hooray.

And two months from the last inspection.

Rufus Lee King: Ho Lee Fook!

That would make an excellent fark name.

44 lbs!
WTF!
I am sure that bags were 20kg bags and not 44 lbs.
What is wrong with these people?
Ignorant reporter/editor/city desk editor.

People from Tennesee are too farking stupid to know any better. Dumb, inbred, redneck hicks. I wish they all would've farking died.

AccuJack: if an FDA regulated company violates statutes, they arrest the farking President, CEO, CFO, and even sometimes the IT guy and put 'em in jail, holding them responsible whether they had anything to do with it or not. Kinda makes the executives sit up and take notice.

Uh-oh... I hope they won't read my Fark history...

davebarnes: 44 lbs!
WTF!
I am sure that bags were 20kg bags and not 44 lbs.
What is wrong with these people?
Ignorant reporter/editor/city desk editor.

The box of rape must have overflowed.

Kirk's_Toupee: now imagine what is not being discovered..


Especially considering these days FDA inspections are usually just for show.

(Regulatory involvement considered to be near communist in nature by Republicans.)

And of course I was eating rice from a 44 pound bag while reading that story. So much for dinner.

me_the_farker: But Fox news told me companies would regulate themselves and government was always bad and in the way.

A fat lot of good the government did. The article said they found the problems in May. They knew about it 7 months ago and are just now doing something about it.

Let me guess. You probably want to put these clown in charge of your health care.

lennavan: And of course I was eating rice from a 44 pound bag while reading that story. So much for dinner.


Straight from the bag or are you pouring some onto a plate first?

Ghastly:
/simply a boy in a dress.


I believe I speak for many of us here when I say:

What the HELL are you talking about?

But do two Won's make a right?

Ghastly: When a straight man puts on a dress and gets his sexual kicks, he is a transvestite.

When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body and has a little operation, he is a Transsexual.

When a gay man has WAY too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag queen.

And when a tired little Latin boy puts on a dress, he is simply a boy in a dress!



/simply a boy in a dress.

I think I speak for everyone when I say:

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Ikahoshi: lennavan: And of course I was eating rice from a 44 pound bag while reading that story. So much for dinner.


Straight from the bag or are you pouring some onto a plate first?

Great. Now I can hear the sound of him chewing dry rice in my head, roughly the same sound as a blender grinding up a squirrel, and it's making my scrotum wrinkle.

/just finished ironing it, too

The food served in school lunches often comes from the federal government. I wonder if the schools will have a lot of Chinese food this year.