If you think your apple juice comes from Washington apples…think again

This REALLY bothers me…

While reading the Associated Press article about Dr. Oz’ apple juice blowup, one quote jumped out. It’s from a report on Dr. Oz’ website.

“American apple juice is made from apple concentrate, 60 percent of which is imported from China. Other countries may use pesticides that contain arsenic, a heavy metal known to cause cancer.”

Okay, two things…

One: The FDA says that they had no problem at all allowing the use of the organic arsenic chickenfeed additive Roxarsone to be used for nearly an entire generation. But then someone ran some tests and — uh oh — looks like this stuff might not be so good!

On the same hand, the agency assures us that arsenic levels in apple juice are fine. No problem. Drink all you want!

But if we’re importing tons of apple concentrate that might have been exposed to pesticides containing inorganic arsenic…shouldn’t we do what Dr. Oz did and revisit the testing to make sure there’s no margin of error?

In light of the surprising change in our knowledge of Roxarsone, wouldn’t that be the prudent thing to do?

And Thing Number Two: Did you see that statistic that just whizzed by? Go back and look. More than HALF of the concentrate used to make U.S. apple juice comes from CHINA.

Seriously!?

Isn’t it bad enough that nearly everything we own is stamped with the words, “Made in China”?

But now we can’t even grow our own APPLES!?

Sources:
“Questions and Answers Regarding 3-Nitro (Roxarsone)” FDA, 6/8/11, fda.gov