Posted on 05/05/2007 4:02:04 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.
Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents.
The syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in antifreeze.
It is also a killer. And the deaths, if not intentional, are often no accident.
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Well said and I see our kids being told they are great and have high self esteem but are not being challenged in school like other countries. Wake up America !! The way to high self esteem is by achievement !
There is nothing in the world worse than a “capitalist”with a Communist sense of ethics.
This is scary.
What disappoints me the most is that only one Congressman (Duncan Hunter, FYI) is talking about China in a negative light.
Only one!
Now that you mention it, I think Duncan Hunter is the only one. For some reason, China seems to be “hands off” when it comes to criticism.
Yes, if globalism is a given, and I think it is-—then America’s education system is the key to our competing and maintaining our place in the world. And, right now, our education system is a pathetic failure.
mom4kittys, could you please put me on the pet food ping list. Thanks.
sure
In contrast to the Wang Guiping investigation, Chinese authorities have been tentative in acknowledging China’s link to the Panama tragedy, which involved a state-owned trading company. No one in China has been charged with committing the fraud that ended up killing so many in Panama.
Sun Jing, the pharmaceutical program officer for the World Health Organization in Beijing, said the health agency sent a fax “to remind the Chinese government that China should not be selling poisonous products overseas.” Ms. Sun said the agency did not receive an official reply.
Last fall, at the request of the United States — Panama has no diplomatic relations with China — the State Food and Drug Administration of China investigated the Taixing Glycerine Factory and Fortune Way.
The agency tested one batch of glycerin from the factory, and found no glycerin, only diethylene glycol and two other substances, a drug official said.
Since then, the Chinese drug administration has concluded that it has no jurisdiction in the case because the factory is not certified to make medicine.
The agency reached a similar conclusion about Fortune Way, saying that as an exporter it was not engaged in the pharmaceutical business.
“We did not find any evidence that either of these companies had broken the law,” said Yan Jiangying, a spokeswoman for the drug administration. “So a criminal investigation was never opened.”
A drug official said the investigation was subsequently handed off to an agency that tests and certifies commercial products — the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
But the agency acted surprised to learn that it was now in charge. “What investigation?” asked Wang Jian, director of its Taixing branch. “I’m not aware of any investigation involving a glycerin factory.”
Besides, Huang Tong, an investigator in that office, said, “We rarely get involved in products that are sold for export.”
Wan Qigang, the legal representative for the Taixing Glycerine Factory, said in an interview late last year that the authorities had not questioned him about the Panama poisoning, and that his company made only industrial-grade glycerin.
“I can tell you for certain that we have no connection with Panama or Spain,” Mr. Wan said.
But in recent months, the Glycerine Factory has advertised 99.5 percent pure glycerin on the Internet.
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