China: Tainted Wine Scandal Unfolds

that eating local just don't pan out sometimes.

here in san antonio, a couple of months back, an international food poisoning epidemic started here.

local food processing company named sangar, processed and shipped out, locally grown alfala and bean spouts
contaminated with salmonella.

the state health department shut them down, and the fda confirmed the food stuff samples, the state shipped to the fda lab for conformation of the contamination, were indeed contaminated with salmonella.

it turned out, that one of the local organic farmers, had been using raw unprocessed cow and horse shit.
that asshole was trying to cut his costs and, most likely did not give a rats ass whom he might have killed!

hell! i use shit in my garden too. yet i've got enough goddamn sense to get free shit from the city sewage treatment plant.
all the pathogens are killed off and, all the heavy metals have been removed also.

sangar was also to blame because, they stored the sprots under a refegeration unit that leaked consinsation on the produce thus, spreading the contamination to the healthy sprots from other growers.

it is not just china.
that type of shit goes down anywhere there is a dergurgitated economy!
:ack2:

 

Within a radius of 1 mile of my house there are probably more than 15, to be honest.
2 miles, well, then you hit the town centre and I'd lose count.

So, basically, my area is the antithesis of yours?
I'm sorry to hear that.
The ironic thing is, I don't really drink in bars anymore.

 

Good job I never buy wine from outside Europe.

 

^^^ contemplating american madeira, sherry, port, ugh . . .

 

I love it!

 

I may not have bars near me, but I do have a ton of wineries close by so that is pretty awesome. So basically I feel no need to buy wine from any other area.

 

Precisely the reason why I never buy wine from outside of europe. I wish everyone else followed my example and maybe it will stop the Bordeaux wine producers going out of business.

 

who?

 

Whatever happened to the good wine? You know, the stuff the prisoners make in their cells in prison....

 

Couldn't have said it better myself:2thumbsup:

 

Yep.

The most local wine I have sampled is in Reims in france, best wine I ever tasted. And you can even taste the difference in wine that is shipped to holland compared to here. These days I drink mostly beer.

 

There has been plenty of wine scandals in other countries too, it is not just China.

I believe there was a famous one in Italy in the 80s, as well as a recent one.

Australia, France and again, Italy, amongst other countries have been in the news for various controversies over wine in recent years.

Um, there have been many minor and not so minor scandals and controversies in regards to Euro wine too. You aren't automatically getting a superior porduct just because it is from a European country.

 

Of course like everywhere else you have to know what to buy.

But I just try to buy as local as possible, keep food miles to a minimum.

 

Sorry, didn't mean to sound rude. But yah, I generally try to support local business too.:2thumbsup:

The wine was not great while in China, but they had some pretty decent beer (Tsingdao)

 

My mate told me about this japanese beer he tried recently, can't remember what it was called, but he says it tastes like soda water! Gads

 

The first tainted milk scandal broke in 2008, when baby formula was found to be tainted with melamine, a type of plastic and cyanuric acid, which is used to clean swimming pools. The first scandal resulted in the deaths of 6 babies and nearly 300,000 sicknesses, according to Reuters.

According to a story on New Scientist, the latest arrests are the result of inspectors seizing 2,132 tonnes of the contaminated milk from China's northwest Gansu and Qinghai provinces

 

Local wine. I buy nothing else.