How Far Has the Contamination Spread?

When I started this blog, it was a place to let people know that assisted living facilities often fail to live up to their promises, especially when it comes to dealing with Alzheimer's patients. I know this because my sister and I lost our father due to negligence on the part of two different assisted living facilities. He became so severely dehydrated that when he went to the emergency room, the doctor there said she had never seen anyone in his condition who was not in a coma. So much for assisting him with living.

Dad recovered a bit in the hospital and went to a nursing home. But the dehydration had made swallowing difficult, so his diet consisted of "thickened" foods, products made specifically for people who can't swallow well on their own. In checking the ingredient list on some of these foods, I found a number of different products that made me think: Where are these ingredients from? If they came from abroad, did the FDA inspect the shipment? (Actually, that's highly unlikely, since only 1 container out of 100 is actually examined and that's when the container holds actual food. When it comes to ingredients, the inspection rate is even lower.)

Dad died from kidney failure, the same thing that has killed thousands of pets who ate tainted food recently. There don't seem to be any glutens in the thickened foods, but there are plenty of other ingredients that could have been bought in China on the cheap and been contaminated with who-knows-what. I could be way off base, but the tainted food scandal is far more widespread than the FDA wants you to think, so who wouldn't be wondering whether anything is safe anymore?