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

‘Food safety and security is an existential emergency that poses grave threats to our national security, public health, and economic prosperity,’ he wrote.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 28, 2021. Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images

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.”