Sen. Scott Calls on Department of Commerce to Investigate Sewage Chinese Garlic

Published on December 7, 2023

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has urged the Department of Commerce to investigate garlic imports from China over food safety concerns as they are allegedly grown in sewage with forced labor. In a letter dated Dec. 6, Mr. Scott requested Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to conduct “an investigation into imports from Communist China of all grades of garlic … and the threat they pose to U.S. national security.” “Food safety and security is an existential emergency that poses grave threats to our national security, public health, and economic prosperity,” Mr. Scott said. The senator made the request following “reports that the garlic is being grown in human sewage, then bleached and harvested in abhorrent conditions often with slave labor,” according to a press statement....

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