FDA Bans Some Food Imports from Japan

Hello all:

My media article this week was about the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) putting bans on imports from Japan that it would "halt imports of dairy products and produce from the area of Japan where a nuclear reactor is leaking radiation." The food would be detained at entry and would not be sold to the public. Which made me wonder, why they are wasting the money to export dairy products in the first place?

Japan actually makes up less than 4% of the US imports. The most common imports from Japan to the United States are seafood, snack foods and processed fruits and vegetables.

The article also explained that they would be testing any seafood that comes from Japan to see if it was radio active. I never found anything wrong with the seafood from this area, so that isn't a big deal to me.

The article can be found online here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/business/23fda.html

It's about time FDA!!!!

This week for my media article titled FDA Proposes Calories Counts on Menus, it talked about how the FDA has recently proposed that all food chains, grocery stores, bakery stores and any place that sells food except for movie theaters, airplanes and coffees chains put calorie counts on the menu which I think is unfair, if you are going to require that these places put the amount of calories for their food on their menus all places that sell food regardless if the primary focus is to sell food or not should be required to put calorie counts, if the bussiness sells food the calories should be presented. No Exceptions. This comes about in response to the huge obesity problem of the states and is apart of the health legislation signed into law last year, studies estimate that 280,000 bussinesses will have the calorie count apply and will fully be in affect next year 2012. I for one am glad the FDA finally decided to do something and things are starting to change.