{"id":12014,"date":"2013-12-14T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2013-12-14T10:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:06:26","slug":"china-bans-all-u-s-west-coast-shellfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/china-bans-all-u-s-west-coast-shellfish\/","title":{"rendered":"China Bans All U.S. West Coast Shellfish"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has taken the extraordinary and unprecedented move of banning the importation of all shellfish from the US West Coast as\u00a0shared in this story from ENENews.<\/a>\u00a0Meanwhile, the still sleeping MSM & Californians\u00a0celebrate the remaining sea life in the ocean approaching their doorsteps<\/a>\u00a0while 145 miles off the shore of California,\u00a098% of the seafloor is covered in Fuku death sea creatures.<\/a>\u00a0Is it any wonder China is taking these measures to protect their population and WHY isn\u2019t the US govt doing the same thing?<\/strong>\u00a0The ban continues indefinitely and for some reason, does not include the shell fish from Southern California as shared from ENENews with a video also below from BeautifulGirlByDana: Fukushima Pacific Ocean 6 Year Countdown To Extinction.:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u2018Unprecedented\u2019: China bans all imports of shellfish from U.S. West Coast \u2014 Official: \u201cThey\u2019ve never done anything like that that I\u2019ve ever seen\u201d \u2014 Includes Washington, Oregon, Alaska and N. California \u2014 Gov\u2019t says it will continue indefinitely<\/strong><\/h4>\n

KUOW<\/a>, Dec. 13, 2013: China Imposes First-Ever West Coast Shellfish Ban […] China has suspended imports of shellfish from the west coast of the United States \u2014 an unprecedented move […] China said it decided to impose the ban after recent shipments of geoduck clams from Northwest waters were found by its own government inspectors to have high levels of arsenic and a toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning. The restriction took effect last week and China\u2019s government says it will continue indefinitely. It applies to clams, oysters and all other two-shelled bivalves harvested from the waters of Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Northern California.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Northwest Public Radio<\/a>, Dec. 13, 2013: China has closed its doors to all imports of West coast shellfish. Chinese officials tested samples of geoduck clams and found elevated levels of arsenic and a toxin that causes Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning. […] Jerry Borchert is in charge of monitoring toxins in shellfish for the Washington Department of Health. He says China\u2019s actions are unusual. […] \u201cThey\u2019ve never done anything like that that I\u2019ve ever seen since I\u2019ve been here where they would not allow shellfish from this entire area based on potentially two areas or maybe just one area, we don\u2019t really know yet.\u201d Last year the U.S. exported more than half a billion dollars worth of shellfish \u2013 with China as its biggest customer. […] There\u2019s no telling when China will lift its import ban, but shellfish on the market in the U.S. are safe to eat.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Olympian<\/a>, Nov. 24, 2013:\u00a0 In response to questions from diggers, the state said that in tests done to date, no fish or shellfish off the Pacific coast have radioactive contamination that would pose a risk to people who eat them.<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China has taken the extraordinary and unprecedented move of banning the importation of all shellfish from the US West Coast as\u00a0shared in this story from ENENews.\u00a0Meanwhile, the still sleeping MSM & Californians\u00a0celebrate the remaining sea life in the ocean approaching … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12015,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}