Carter Legacy. Permanent abnormal relations.
Posted on 06/01/2007 6:41:59 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Consumers were advised on Friday to discard all toothpaste made in China after federal health officials said they found Chinese-made toothpaste containing a poison related to a chemical used in antifreeze in three locations — Miami, the Port of Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. Although there are no reports of anyone being harmed by the toothpaste, the Food and Drug Administration warned that the Chinese products have a “low but meaningful risk of toxicity and injury” to children and people with kidney or liver disease.
The United States is the seventh country to find tainted Chinese toothpaste within its borders in recent weeks. F.D.A. officials said they found toothpaste containing a small amount of diethylene glycol, a sweet syrupy poison, at a Dollar Plus retail store in Miami, sold under the brand name ShiR Fresh Mint Flouride Paste. The F.D.A. also identified another nine brands of Chinese toothpaste that contain diethylene glycol, some with concentrations of between 3 percent and 4 percent.
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I’m gonna sue!!
The Saudis are our friends.
The Russians are our friends.
And the ChiComs are an important trade partner. Sorry about your kids and pets....
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Hey free traders... this is what you wanted.
>>>The agency said toothpaste containing diethylene glycol is sold under the names of Cooldent Flouride, Cooldent Spearmint; Cooldent ICE; Dr. Cool; Superdent, Clean Rite, Oralmax Extreme, Oral Bright, Bright Max, and ShiR Fresh Mint.<<<
President Bush seems to be a pretty crappy judge of character right now.
The Saudis are our friends.
The Russians are our friends.
And the ChiComs are an important trade partner. Sorry about your kids and pets....
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Let’s not forget about all those hardworking illegal immigrants. So grateful they’ll do those $15 hour jobs that us Americans are too good for. Never mind that $15 (free and clear of taxes, Social Security which they are still entitled to, welfare because they aren’t *really* working) that is worth $30 in their own country. Yeah, he sees the world as it really is.
It’s all bad news:
You can no longer drink diet drinks with Sodium Benzoate.
You can get antibiotic resistant TB on your flight to Europe.
You pets are poisoned.
You cannot brush your teeth.
Paris Hilton is going to jail, Lilo to rehab, and Britney has jumped the shark.
What’s next?
I received TRI-LEAF Spearment toothpast while in the hospital last year, given to me by the hospital staff. Made in China. I found several tubes of it a few weeks ago and threw it in the trash.
How much more does this have to happen before people wise up and stop buying any consumable made in China?
There was an article early about a guy on a flight with measles too.
But in defense of him too, Clinton is the one who made buddy buddy and did the NAFTA deal with China.
I haven’t gotten the chicken pox yet.
What, keeping the Chinese market open to us, while having them give us a great excuse to close ours to them? Sounds great.
Don’t worry, China exports that too.
/bad joke
“Consumers were advised on Friday to discard all toothpaste made in China”
How pitiful is this? I mean we even import our TOOTHPASTE from China. The USA is getting to be a total joke !!!
LOL!
There is no “NAFTA” deal with China. There isn’t anything even remotely resembling a NAFTA deal with China. Be serious.
That only proves how very shrewd Bush is. Once your children are killed off by poisoned Chinese products, he will just invite in millions of illegal aliens to take their place and then some. See? He has thought of everything! Bush is shrewd and we are (finish the rhyme).
Are you on the correct website?
“What, keeping the Chinese market open to us, while having them give us a great excuse to close ours to them? Sounds great.”
Yeah, and a few dead pets and kids... what the heck, profit is profit, right?
Can I get some for my mother-in-law?
It’s brilliant. Much like a thread concerning tainted consumer products can become a discussion of illegal immigration, if you can pull it off.
Carter Legacy. Permanent abnormal relations.
*** There is no “NAFTA” deal with China. ***
I’ll venture a guess and say the poster meant MFN status.
It’s difficult to construct trade deals with a country that artificially values and devalues it’s currency to suit it’s own purposes.
Go brush your teeth !!!
Oh yeah, those tariffs sure would have protected us . . . what the heck, profit is profit, right?
It would be nice if there were a store that stocked “American-made only” products. I try to buy American when I can, but sometimes it seems like everything is made in China.
I figured they would find it in a dollar store. The one near me has all sorts of weird toiletries from China with misspelled words on them.
“Oh yeah, those tariffs sure would have protected us . . . what the heck, profit is profit, right?”
No, but domestic manufacturing would have helped a lot.
You’re going to cling to the free trade as your ship just breaks up and goes to the bottom. Great to see you’re a total ideologue.
Which isn't even a trade deal.
But we've long since passed the point where having a clue is a requirement for posting on important issues.
sometimes it seems like everything is made in China.
Well when we get to the point where we’re importing toothpaste yaaaaaaaaaaaah,I would agree with you !!!
Which goes a long way toward explaining why we don’t have a trade deal with China. Perhaps you could explain that to the other poster?
“Hey free traders... this is what you wanted.”
This has nothing to do with ‘free trade.’
I guess you’d like to return to the days of Smoot-Hawley?
That sure worked out real well.
I can’t believe that this is a deliberate policy of the Chinese government. What is their point in killing off international trade? A few more incidents like this one and “Made in China” items will be gathering dust on the shelves. I doubt we’ll ever hear of the penalties that get handed out over there but a charge of damaging the state economy surely carries the death penalty.
Which one?
I refer you to my comment #35. P&G is probably the largest consumer-product company in the world. The “ideologues” are the ones who’ve convinced themselves that we “make nuthin’, nowheres, nohow.” You spring immediately to mind.
There is no “NAFTA” deal with China. There isn’t anything even remotely resembling a NAFTA deal with China. Be serious.
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Well, I guess you are right. I should have posted that in sarcastic tags.
The one that thinks we have a NAFTA-style agreement with China.
*** Which isn’t even a trade deal.***
MFN: The principle, fundamental to the GATT, of treating imports from a country on the same basis as that given to the most favored other nation.
C’mon, just because your vaunted free trade is showing it’s evil side, no need to get nasty. Strictly speaking, it’s not a trade deal, but very much relates to trade, and balence thereof.
Getting a little picky as Rome burns?
If that was sarcasm, it sucked.
*** The “ideologues” are the ones who’ve convinced themselves that we “make nuthin’, nowheres, nohow.” You spring immediately to mind.***
Well, with your limited capcity, I guess you should be grateful anything “springs to mind”.
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