Reply #32: Vitamins too! Lead found in Chinese vitamins - they make 80% of the worlds vitamins [View All]

[Shallah Kali]

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660215681,00.html

"Food safety is a bipartisan issue: Congress and the administration must work together and move aggressively to devise stricter standards. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, has deplored dangerous levels of lead in vitamin products originating in China"

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http://www.charlotte.com/127/story/97981.html

Most of the world's vitamins are now made in China. The last U.S. plant making vitamin C closed a year ago. Given China's cheap labor, artificially low prices and the unfair competitive climate it has foisted on the industry, few Western producers of food ingredients can survive much longer.

Western companies have had to invest heavily in Chinese facilities. These Western-owned plants follow strict standards and are generally better managed than their locally owned counterparts. Nevertheless, 80 percent of the world's vitamin C is now manufactured in China -- much of it unregulated and some of it of questionable quality.