no food by mail?

Thanks for the warning because I need to mail a couple of bags of bott boi
noodles to a friend in California. This just means I keep my mouth shut at
the post office about what's inside of it.

Ya never know when an Amish food product could be used as a
weapon.............

"vj" wrote in message
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notice: reposted from another group for information:
(snip)
It's part of a law to prevent bioterrorism. But surely the rule must
be intended for importers, not a guy with a jar of spices. Nope. The
way the law is written, it allows no minimums and no exemption for
personal use, says FDA spokeswoman Deborah Ralston. The only exception
is for homemade food "made in the sender's personal residence."

Approval must be sought no more than five days before the package is
to arrive, and no less than two hours before arrival if the package is
arriving by land, four if by air, or eight if by sea. More details are
at www.fda.gov.

Man, I don't know about you, but I feel so much safer.

Oh geez, talk about paranoia. It's nonsense like that that makes me think
the terrorists really won this whole mess after all.


KarenK


"vj" wrote in message
...
notice: reposted from another group for information:

This was in
the paper yesterday. No more food from outside the US by mail?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...updates25.html

No food by mail? Please, Mr. Postman!

Prior to his departure from England, Robert Hegland of Falls Church,
Va., looked at his bulging bags and asked a friend to mail him his
excess luggage, including a few sealed bottles of dried herbs and
spices, and one of whiskey.

Later the friend called: The U.K. post office wouldn't mail the
package because a new FDA rule prohibits the mailing of any food or
drink to the UnitedStates as of Dec.12, unless the sender had filed
"prior notice" with the the U.S. agency and gotten permission.

It's part of a law to prevent bioterrorism. But surely the rule must
be intended for importers, not a guy with a jar of spices. Nope. The
way the law is written, it allows no minimums and no exemption for
personal use, says FDA spokeswoman Deborah Ralston. The only exception
is for homemade food "made in the sender's personal residence."

Approval must be sought no more than five days before the package is
to arrive, and no less than two hours before arrival if the package is
arriving by land, four if by air, or eight if by sea. More details are
at www.fda.gov.

Man, I don't know about you, but I feel so much safer.


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In article ,
says...

It's part of a law to prevent bioterrorism. But surely the rule must
be intended for importers, not a guy with a jar of spices. Nope. The
way the law is written, it allows no minimums and no exemption for
personal use, says FDA spokeswoman Deborah Ralston. The only exception
is for homemade food "made in the sender's personal residence."

Approval must be sought no more than five days before the package is
to arrive, and no less than two hours before arrival if the package is
arriving by land, four if by air, or eight if by sea. More details are
at www.fda.gov.

Man, I don't know about you, but I feel so much safer.

They are now also *fingerprinting* every foreign national arriving in the US.
Of course, they don't HAVE fingerprints from bin Laden or any other uncaptured
terrorist to compare these prints with, so it's difficult to see the rationale.

Celine

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Good for you, Kathy!

How would anyone expect to FIND a missing child with their fingerprints? Or
a VIDEO?? That's a really poor attempt :-\

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They're also fingerprinting middle schoolers. A week ago, we got parental
permisssion slips to have our children fingerprinted, photographed and
videotaped, so the police could keep the information on file, "in case
your
child gets lost."

Yeah, like they keep separate databases of "teenagers who might get lost"
and
"teenagers we think commited some crime."

For what it's worth, five children at the school had their parents decline
this wonderful opportunity. Mine was one of them.

Kathy N-V

Yeah, this sucks bigtime. Now I can't get Kindereggs from a Canadian vendor
for Easter.
Read the FDA regs and on this and it's amazing any food gets across the
border. Wonder how many small importers (here) and exporters (there) are
going out of business because of this?

For another look at stupid "protection" - see how WallyWorld is helping wage
the war on drugs: http://tinyurl.com/yvu8u

Val
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"vj" wrote in message
...
notice: reposted from another group for information:

This was in
the paper yesterday. No more food from outside the US by mail?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...updates25.html

In article .net, Lee
S. Billings wrote:

In article ,
says...

It's part of a law to prevent bioterrorism. But surely the rule must
be intended for importers, not a guy with a jar of spices. Nope. The
way the law is written, it allows no minimums and no exemption for
personal use, says FDA spokeswoman Deborah Ralston. The only exception
is for homemade food "made in the sender's personal residence."

Approval must be sought no more than five days before the package is
to arrive, and no less than two hours before arrival if the package is
arriving by land, four if by air, or eight if by sea. More details are
at www.fda.gov.

Man, I don't know about you, but I feel so much safer.

They are now also *fingerprinting* every foreign national arriving in the US.
Of course, they don't HAVE fingerprints from bin Laden or any other
uncaptured
terrorist to compare these prints with, so it's difficult to see the rationale.

Celine

Which is one reason i haven't really felt like making any trips into
the US lately. Although the Sate of Texas already has my prints from
when I got my drivers licence there - yeesh! If that doesn't make you
feel like guilty until proven innocent!

susan in canada

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Kyla,
Actually most of the time we used the fingerprints after a body was found,
and the video was shown on the tv.

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I must've just got through in the nick of time; I posted some Australian
dried spices to a friend over that way just before Christmas...

Audrey

"vj" wrote in message
...
notice: reposted from another group for information:

This was in
the paper yesterday. No more food from outside the US by mail?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...updates25.html

No food by mail? Please, Mr. Postman!

Prior to his departure from England, Robert Hegland of Falls Church,
Va., looked at his bulging bags and asked a friend to mail him his
excess luggage, including a few sealed bottles of dried herbs and
spices, and one of whiskey.

Later the friend called: The U.K. post office wouldn't mail the
package because a new FDA rule prohibits the mailing of any food or
drink to the UnitedStates as of Dec.12, unless the sender had filed
"prior notice" with the the U.S. agency and gotten permission.

It's part of a law to prevent bioterrorism. But surely the rule must
be intended for importers, not a guy with a jar of spices. Nope. The
way the law is written, it allows no minimums and no exemption for
personal use, says FDA spokeswoman Deborah Ralston. The only exception
is for homemade food "made in the sender's personal residence."

Approval must be sought no more than five days before the package is
to arrive, and no less than two hours before arrival if the package is
arriving by land, four if by air, or eight if by sea. More details are
at www.fda.gov.

Man, I don't know about you, but I feel so much safer.


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In article ,
says...

Yeah, this sucks bigtime. Now I can't get Kindereggs from a Canadian vendor
for Easter.

If you're a private citizen, and the item isn't obvious when wrapped, you can
of course prevaricate about what's in the package. Do you have a friend in
Canada who could get the eggs and ship them to you?

Celine

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So That means no more chocolate from the UK. One of my swapping powers
gone.
Shirley



In article , vj
writes
notice: reposted from another group for information:

This was in
the paper yesterday. No more food from outside the US by mail?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...updates25.html

No food by mail? Please, Mr. Postman!

Prior to his departure from England, Robert Hegland of Falls Church,
Va., looked at his bulging bags and asked a friend to mail him his
excess luggage, including a few sealed bottles of dried herbs and
spices, and one of whiskey.

Later the friend called: The U.K. post office wouldn't mail the
package because a new FDA rule prohibits the mailing of any food or
drink to the UnitedStates as of Dec.12, unless the sender had filed
"prior notice" with the the U.S. agency and gotten permission.

It's part of a law to prevent bioterrorism. But surely the rule must
be intended for importers, not a guy with a jar of spices. Nope. The
way the law is written, it allows no minimums and no exemption for
personal use, says FDA spokeswoman Deborah Ralston. The only exception
is for homemade food "made in the sender's personal residence."

Approval must be sought no more than five days before the package is
to arrive, and no less than two hours before arrival if the package is
arriving by land, four if by air, or eight if by sea. More details are
at www.fda.gov.

Man, I don't know about you, but I feel so much safer.


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(Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com
(Jewelry) http://www.vickijean.com
newest creations: http://www.vickijean.com/newest.html
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