Foreign MREs, food to be destroyed by FDA
Tags: europeansIt would be nice if the FDA or FEMA would provide a statement on the Mirror UK report "Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans".
Britain has donated 400,000 MREs, aka "Nato ration packs". Those are the same packs British troops eat in Iraq and, since the U.S. is part of Nato, they're approved for use by our troops. However, perhaps due to fears about BSE, the FDA has allegedly called them "unfit for human consumption" and shipped them to a Little Rock warehouse for possible incineration.
Other food gifts from other countries are in the same situation.
The [UK] Ministry of Defence said: "We understand there was a glitch and these packs have been impounded by the US Department of Agriculture under regulations relating to the import and export of meat.
"The situation is changing all the time and at our last meeting on Friday we were told progress was being made in relation to the release of these packs. The Americans certainly haven't indicated to us that there are any more problems and they haven't asked us to take them back."
This is in the developing category…
