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Article: From psyllium seeds to stoneware: FDA insures quality of imports. (Food and Drug Administration)
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- FDA Consumer
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- March 1, 1991
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It's morning on the docks of Baltimore, and FDA inspectors Dean Cook and Lorraine Harvey, a list of products to be sampled in hand, set to work checking a truckload of burlap sacks of psyllium seed husks from India. The psyllium seed husks are used in making laxatives.
Using a special funnel-shaped tool, Cook and Harvey siphon a pound of seed from six different sacks, then re-seal the bags. The seed will be analyzed back in FDA's laboratory to check for insects and bird excreta, problems that have plagued psyllium seed husks from India.
Next they open a shipment of stoneware plates and cups from India and remove eight sets of dinnerware. These will be ...