US to China: Regulate your food or we will ask you again

Considering the meek approach of the US to negotiating with China, why would they bother to listen? Because the Bush administration has so brilliantly failed to move China on their currency valuation and other trade issues, the US has little choice but to continue purchasing Chinese products, tainted or not, so to even suggest they are being firm is laughable. In the deeper drive for profit big business has left themselves with few alternatives and the FDA has expressed no interest in stepping up monitoring so this is it, like it or not.

Unless the FDA decides to get back in the business of monitoring - including large scale rejections of tainted products - the US consumer will remain on the front line of food safety. It would obviously be beneficial for everyone if China did a better job of delivering quality but realistically that will not change quickly and they are free to do what they want to do. This always comes back to the US companies who are purchasing this junk and the FDA who is too clueless to do anything about it because it was gutted by the GOP congress.