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Processed chicken imports from China without a country-of-origin label to be sold in the U.S. Should food require import labeling?

• Why/Why not? Given on-going issues with product & food safety with China is now the time to relax standards and allow food products, only a very small fraction of which will ever face inspection, be allowed? Shouldn't American consumers have the option of knowing where their food products came from in order to make an informed purchasing decision? "Just before the start of the long holiday weekend last Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly that it was ending a ban on processed chicken imports from China. The kicker: These products can now be sold in the U.S. without a country-of-origin label. For starters, just four Chinese processing plants will be allowed to export cooked chicken products to the U.S., as first reported by . The plants in question passed USDA inspection in March. Initially, these processors will only be allowed to export chicken products made from birds that were raised in the U.S. and Canada. Because of that, the poultry processors won't be required to have a USDA inspector on site, as The New York Times , adding: "And because the poultry will be processed, it will not require country-of-origin labeling. Nor will consumers eating chicken noodle soup from a can or chicken nuggets in a fast-food restaurant know if the chicken came from Chinese processing plants." http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/05/219377718/was-your-chicken-nugget-made-in-china-itll-soon-be-hard-to-know

• Answer:

  Yes. So people can be informed enough to choose not to buy it.