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Slouching inspectors, hidden dragon.(THE LAST WORD)(chinese commodities)
In less than a decade, China has captured 90 percent of the U.S. market for vitamin C, driving almost everyone else out of business. Chinese pharmaceutical companies also have taken over much of the world market.... According to an industry, group, China makes 70 percent of the world's penicillin, 50 percent of its aspirin and 35 percent of its acetaminophen (often sold under the brand name Tylenol), as well as the bulk of vitamins A, B12, C and E.
--"China Corners the Vitamin Market"
Seattle Times, June 3, 2007
Whoa! Talk about stealth attack! Communist China corners the U.S. vitamin market? Beijing has now captured nine-tenths of our vitamin-C production? That's no small matter; vitamin C is our most commonly consumed vitamin supplement. Americans take tons of vitamin C in its various forms: powder, crystal, pill, capsule, caplet. And the factories of the People's Republic of China, apparently, also produce the bulk of many of our other vitamins, as well as our most common drugs, antibiotics, and pain relievers.
I consider myself to be more-than-average vigilant concerning China's designs on our food production, but this was news to me. The first notice I got of China's massive penetration of our vitamin/drug supply was one week prior to the above-cited Seattle Times article, in a May 27 online edition of the Epoch Times, a pro-freedom newspaper started by overseas Chinese associated with the persecuted Falun Gong meditation/exercise group. The article, "A Costly Trade With China," reported: "Currently, almost all of the world's vitamins are manufactured in China.... Last year, the last vitamin C plant in the United States shut down."
Could that be right? No more vitamin C is being made in the United States? Most of the world's vitamins are now "Made in China"? I fired off an e-mail to the author of the Epoch Times piece, Heide B. Malhotra. However, even before she responded,
I was able to Google confirmation of the disturbing news from multiple government, industry, and media sources. And, of course, as most Americans now know, China is exporting not just vitamins but other food supplies to the United States as well (see cover story).
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