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Posted By STONERS 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsChina on Wednesday said it was investigating reports that toothpaste containing a potentially deadly chemical had been exported to Central America, the latest in a series of scandals involving tainted Chinese products.
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STONERS1 year, 4 months ago
On Monday, authorities in the Dominican Republic said they had removed 10,000 tubes of the Chinese toothpaste brands "Excel" and "Mr. Cool" from shelves after learning they contained diethylene glycol, a chemical commonly used in antifreeze and brake fluid. Panama also removed the Chinese toothpaste brands from stores last week, but said the level of diethylene glycol did not appear to be dangerous.
Pet food ingredients from China tainted with the mildly toxic chemical melamine were blamed in the deaths of dogs and cats in North America earlier this year, prompting a massive pet food recall and, eventually, an investigation in China.
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TOtheMOON1 year, 4 months ago
Ya know, I hear about all of the nasty things that are used to make crack, and then I read this sort of thing (diethylene glycol, a chemical commonly used in antifreeze and brake fluid) and my stomach turned just a tad. Is this in ALL tooth paste or just this particular brand? My mom brushes her teeth with baking soda only and I used to think that was gross. But now, not so much.
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elll1 year, 4 months ago
wow, I was thinking about the dog food thing on Sunday when I was blowing up balloons. I said to my mom, "this is how they'll get us" ..... we're not safe!!!
(Remember that urban legend about licking envelopes and cockroaches laying eggs inside the papercut of your tongue?)
You could said only "buy American" but America is capable of doing itself in too!
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TOtheMOON1 year, 4 months ago
"(Remember that urban legend about licking envelopes and cockroaches laying eggs inside the papercut of your tongue?)"
I have NO clue what it is you are talking about, but I could have lived another day without reading what you wrote and trying to imagine what it was you were trying to say. Do I want to know? I'm afraid to ask. Ugh.. :{
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elll1 year, 4 months ago
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.asp
this begins with a taco bell cockroach scare, but just underneath the advertisement is the part about licking envelopes
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Mintyfunk1 year, 4 months ago
I'm just curious what those chemical were doing near the toothpaste plant anyways. Seems like you'd keep the poisonous chemicals plant away from the 'I put this crap ion my mouth' plant.
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TOtheMOON1 year, 4 months ago
"China's Cabinet earlier this month ordered a thorough crackdown against unsafe practices in the food industry."
Well, thank God! Now I feel safe! Pheww!
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TOtheMOON1 year, 4 months ago
There should be spy's who check out these workers bathrooms - what kind of toothpaste are THEY using! And those people who make the dog food - what are they feeding THEIR pets? And so on and so forth. If they don't jive, then what is up with that? Know what I mean??
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Watchemoket1 year, 4 months ago
The Chinese government and its foreign & domestic 'semi-capitalist' partners are trying to move China into the 21st century too fast. They can build the plants and the infrastructure that is needed to fully industrialize, but the industrial work ethic and dedication to turning out a quality product doesn't just pop up overnight.
Before I get jumped on, I do NOT mean to say the the Chinese people don't have a good work ethic - from what I have heard and read, they do. But it is tied almost exclusively to the personal labor of agriculture, which is a very different working environment than that of a manufacturing plant.
The Chinese government needs to slow down a bit and let its people's social development catch up with their economic development. Perhaps then "Quality Control" will mean something more than just another box to check off in the production and shipping process.
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OldRusty1 year, 4 months ago
Watch China Blue,.you will get an idea of how the chinese factory production works.,remember lots of the clothes are sold in Wal-Mart.Dog food, tooth paste, any and all products made for consumption in a third world country will be tainted.
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mykidsmum1 year, 4 months ago
We need to go back to what is manufactured in the US is sold in the US, etc. Yeah I know about infrastructure and trying to sell to the masses so we can make tons of profit, but what comes first? our health, or profits... oops stupid question.. we want the money before our health, of course.
Not only is this going on in "China", but in third world countries all around the world, including Mexico. We try to bring them into what ever century it is, to make them self sufficient and to breath the air of profit mongering... and what do they do... add additives that werent on the ingredient list!!
Let them sell their stuff to themselves, and we'll keep to ourselves, thank you very much. To each his own.
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nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago
Start reading the labels on jars and cans at the grocery store - you will be amazed.
Del Monte jars of mandarin oranges - Product of China
Various cans of mushrooms - Product of China
I can just imagine how many of the additives are from China but companies aren't required to identify those
Big newspapers across the country are reporting that lots of shipments of food arriving at U.S. ports from China are being refused due to them being contaminated. Recently, the Washington Post reported that the USFDA seized more than 1000 shipments of tainted dietary supplements, toxic cosmetics and counterfeit medicines from China. Furthermore, according to a report published in the Chicago Tribune, mor than 130 shipments of food were rejected from China due to them being contaminated with salmonella bacteria, or for containing banned ingredients.
http://www.dogflu.ca/05212007/16/u_s_cracking_d...
If you have not read this story, it is a real shock!
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MntnWllm1 year, 4 months ago
Having spent a couple of weeks in China, it's easy to vouch for the fact that "clean & safe" to most of us, is not what "clean & safe" means in China. I tried some of the hotel's provided toothpaste - once. Three days later, after my system returned to a semblance of normalcy, I had learned my lesson. Do not trust any Chinese product one would ingest, inhale or allow otherwise into your bloodstream. Or obviously even one's pets.
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twangster1 year, 4 months ago
There is no domestic market.
The glam stuff you see about consumerism in China is a PlSS in the ocean.
Their whole system is about ignoring the international rules and protocol of trade , meanwhile we're not only copping it up the back passage, now the front as well !!!
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arcrftmech161 year, 4 months ago
Why doesn't the US just ban any food product imports from China and other countries? Their products have proven to be anything but safe and always of poor quality. This would also lower the trade deficet and put more jobs in america and help the american farmers that are struggling to compete with tainted food from china and other importing countries. The US can't control the growing and processing of food in other countries and the FDA has proven it can't control or monitor food that is imported. Not until a few people die do they make any efforts to test or monitor imported foods, then its too late and after the fact.
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badnootka1 year, 4 months ago
The chinese people do not worry about their own consumption because the chemicals and other additives that we are finding in foodstuffs etc. are only meant for export. These are fillers. CHeaper than the actual product and therefore added for bulk, the addition of protein, and cost savings. Until China steps into the 20th century in it,s production and inspections I suggest that Chinese products be shunned. Conspiracy theorists will no doubt see a calculated effort to poison the western world. I can see why one would think that.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 4 months ago
Hey you want cheap labor? You Got it! Now the circumstances will literally kill you.
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riverdalian1 year, 4 months ago
I'm lookin' at the neg votes...Hey 'ballblister2'
... Why don't you check to see if you're cage at the zoo is ready for habitation? I'm sure you're fellow simians miss you.
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