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Entries from May 2007
May 27, 2007
Follow Up on Tainted Toothpaste from China
In my first post on this issue, it was not yet confirmed that China was the source but now it is. See the CBC article. The interesting part is, the local China press and how they are playing it, is classic Chinese media.
China Daily, a state run paper has this to say “It is [...]
May 27, 2007
Deadly Mislabeled Foods from China
The FDA has warned against eating monkfish as it may actually be puffer fish, a fish that has a toxin deadly to humans. The fish as been traced back to, China, again. Consumers should be careful when using products from China as we are finding with alarming regularity, that quality standards are not up to [...]
May 22, 2007
Beta Testing
This week I am beta testing the long on going redesign of my personal site, Echenard.com. I don’t have a crew to test the bugs for me, just some friends and so far it looks alright, just a few minor bugs like the resizing, forgot to add the code for that. Once the beta testing [...]
May 20, 2007
Service By Location
Ok, I know I’ve been beating up on
China all month, what can I say, I don’t like shoddy deals and what they have been doing is. I think it is important to raise awareness of such activities when they are spotted. Informed consumers make for good consumers because they are the people buying based [...]
May 20, 2007
Possible Posioned Toothpaste From China
According to this NY Times article, toothpaste that has ingredients found in antifreeze is showing up in toothpaste suspected of being from China. Diethylene glycol, used to replaced glycerin, is the ingredient in question, the very same one that has killed over 100 people in Panama from a shipment from China used in cough medicine. [...]
May 9, 2007
Another Chemical from China in Pet Food
When it rains it pours. Read this article from the NY Times, it mentions how this is rather common practice in China. That should be a wake up call for any business!
NY Times Article
May 9, 2007
Chinese Products In the News Again
As I said in my last post, it would not be long before another situation with Chinese products being bad for consumption, arises. The FDA this week announced that the same ingredient found to have killed numerious pets, was found in feed for chickens, hogs and farm raised fish. All of these ingredients were traced [...]
May 6, 2007
China Strikes Again – More Deaths from Bad Products
Once again in less than two months,
China is at the center of another toxic food contamination, this time; it is people who have been affected. Cheap diethyl glycol was shipped out of
China and labeled as glycerin for use in medicine has killed 100 confirmed with nearly 300 more unconfirmed, in
Panama so far and has been [...]
