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2005/9/22-23 [Recreation/Food, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:39818 Activity:nil
9/22    So it turns out that a bungload of British army emergency supplies
        and MRE-type food were to be burned as "unfit for human consumption."
        I forwarded this to a colleague in the US, who sent it to Feinstein's
        office just for shits and grins, and according to what they told him,
        nobody'd even heard of this.  This makes baby jesus cry.
        http://csua.org/u/dgx    -John
        \_ The end of this article reads:
           'The FDA said: "We did inspect some MREs (meals ready to eat) on
           September 13. They are the only MREs we looked at. There were 70
           huge pallets of vegetarian MREs.
           "They were from a foreign nation. We inspected them and then
           released them for distribution."'
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Mor e > 19 September 2005 EXCLUSIVE: UP IN FLAMES Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNE D by Americans From Ryan Parry, US Correspondent in New York HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurr icane Katrina survivors is to be burned. US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees. Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eat en by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human cons umption. Katrina crisis victim NEEDY: Evacuees from New Orleans Advertisement And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent for incineration. One British aid worker last night called the move "sickening senselessnes s" and said furious colleagues were "spitting blood". The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a hug e warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had alrea dy left to be distributed. Scores of lorries headed back to a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas, to dump it at an FDA incineration plant. The Ministry of Defence in London said last night that 400,000 operationa l ration packs had been shipped to the US. But officials blamed the US Department of Agriculture, which impounded th e shipment under regulations relating to the import and export of meat. The aid worker, who would not be named, said: "This is the most appalling act of sickening senselessness while people starve. "The FDA has recalled aid from Britain because it has been condemned as u nfit for human consumption, despite the fact that these are Nato approve d rations of exactly the same type fed to British soldiers in Iraq. "Under Nato, American soldiers are also entitled to eat such rations, yet the starving of the American South will see them go up in smoke because of FDA red tape madness." Child suvivor of Katrina PAIN: Child survivor cries The worker added: "There will be a cloud of smoke above Little Rock soon - of burned food, of anger and of shame that the world's richest nation couldn't organise a p**s up in a brewery and lets Americans starve while they arrogantly observe petty regulations. "Everyone is revolted by the chaotic shambles the US is making of this cr isis. People have worked their socks off to get food in to the region. "It is perfectly good Nato approved food of the type British servicemen h ave. Yet the FDA are saying that because there is a meat content and it has come from Britain it must be destroyed. "If they are trying to argue there is a BSE reason then that is ludicrous ly out of date. There is more BSE in the States than there ever was in B ritain and UK meat has been safe for years." The Ministry of Defence said: "We understand there was a glitch and these packs have been impounded by the US Department of Agriculture under reg ulations relating to the import and export of meat. "The situation is changing all the time and at our last meeting on Friday we were told progress was being made in relation to the release of thes e packs. The Americans certainly haven't indicated to us that there are any more problems and they haven't asked us to take them back." Food from Spain and Italy is also being held because it fails to meet US standards and has been judged unfit for human consumption. And Israeli relief agencies are furious that thousands of gallons of pear juice are to be destroyed because it has been judged unfit. The FDA said: "We did inspect some MREs (meals ready to eat) on September 13. We inspected them and then released the m for distribution."