Why Can't the FDA be as Proactive as its Philippine counterpart?

[kaffe]

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/129247/Customs-alerted-vs-pet-food-feeds-from-China

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/star/20081025/tph-milk-food-bfad-melamine-free-541dfb4.html

Hrmmppp...  The Philippine version of the FDA has issued an import alert on various food products from China... including petfood!  And they are going to post guards in the holding facilities to make sure the "ban" is respected until lab tests show the imports to be "clean."  Now why can't we do the same here with foodstuff imported from China? 

[Perseus]

Kaffe, this is very disturbing in that the Philippine government is reacting to an FDA recall about melamine in pet food imported from China:
"The directive was issued by the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) in response to a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory recalling pet food due to melamine content."

I get emailed all of the alerts from the FDA and I did NOT receive any alert about another pet food recall.  I just went to the FDA's website (www.fda.gov) and there is no recent recall listed anywhere for pet food from China.  I did a google search and can't find anything recent.  Do you have any other information on this FDA pet food recall??

[kaffe]

Kaffe, this is very disturbing in that the Philippine government is reacting to an FDA recall about melamine in pet food imported from China:
"The directive was issued by the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) in response to a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory recalling pet food due to melamine content."

I get emailed all of the alerts from the FDA and I did NOT receive any alert about another pet food recall.  I just went to the FDA's website (www.fda.gov) and there is no recent recall listed anywhere for pet food from China.  I did a google search and can't find anything recent.  Do you have any other information on this FDA pet food recall??

I had to read that statement twice too - but it seems that the Philippine gov't is reacting to two things: the FDA's warning and recall of petfood LAST YEAR and the more recent dog deaths in China due to contaminated petfood.  In other words, there is no "new" petfood recall  due to melamine initiated by the FDA... 

I think the passage in question suffered from "lost in transaltion" thingy.

[Perseus]

Kaffe, Thanks for clarifying that!  I saw the translation was missing in a few areas of the article, too.  Not that I would have been surprised to find out it's in the pet food again.....

[kaffe]

It would appear that Singapore is also being proactive about this melamine business... I can't locate the article now... darn.