Toothpaste labeled Colgate recalled

msnbc.com ^ | 6/13/07 | AP

[NRA2BFree]

FDA tests found antifreeze chemical; agency unsure if items are counterfeit.

Five-ounce tubes of toothpaste labeled Colgate and sold in discount stores in four states are being recalled because they may contain a poisonous chemical, according to the importer. A Food and Drug Administration official, Doug Arbesfeld, confirmed that testing had found the chemical in a product with the Colgate label. But he said the agency is unsure if it is really Colgate or a counterfeit.

[NRA2BFree]

Yikes! I use colgate!

[maine-iac7]

Yikes! I use colgate!

that's not the only poison in your toothpaste... any toothpaste with fluoride. Have you read the warning label on it?

And you put this stuff in your mouth? and in your kids mouths?,

Got the emergency number for the poison control center posted by your phone?

[weegee]

The product at dollar stores seems dodgey at best. A considerable amount is labelled for foreign markets where the laws are lax.

But when you’re saving money, you have to cut some corners.

[weegee]

Don’t forget about the fluoride cities put in the tap water.

[fanfan]

Ping

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Ah yes the wonders of “Free Trade!” As Thomas Caryle said about 150 years ago “Free trade means Cheap and Nasty.”

[O Neill]

Don’t forget about the fluoride cities put in the tap water.

Yes...they're polluting our precious, bodily fluids!

[ndt]

"Don’t forget about the fluoride cities put in the tap water."

And our teeth thank them for it. The acute toxic dose of fluoride is 2 to 8 milligrams per kilogram of body weight, do the math.

[redhead]

I quit using toothpaste years ago, when they started putting fluoride in all of it. I tried using the natural pastes, but they were just plain NASTY.

I'll just brush/swish with peroxide, rinse and be done, thank you. Once a week, I polish with soda/salt. Haven't had a cavity in many years.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Concentrated fluoride is nasty.

The diluted stuff in toothpaste and some municipal water is not.

This was a tin-foil hat issue about 10 years ago, people thinking they were being poisoned with fluoridated water.

[mom4kittys]

[weef]

Colgate is screwed - they try to save a few bucks by importing toothpaste from South Africa and this is what they get. So sad, too bad - their brand just went down the drain...

[donna]

I thought it was from China?

[ASA Vet]

Grand Rapids was the first city in the U.S. to put fluoride in the drinking water. I’ve been drinking it over 50 years. It has made me go bald.

[Deb]

Everything I’ve heard and read says it’s from China. China is flooding the world with fake products and most are poisoned.

[stboz]

All youa cavities are berong to us!

[ASA Vet]

Hey stop confusing a good rant with facts.

[JRochelle]

Thank God I have well water.

[O Neill]

...people thinking they were being poisoned with fluoridated water.

I don't believe it was considered poison...I thought the concern was that Libruls were using it to soften our minds to be more receptive to Dan Rather & Tom Brokenjaw mind control (see the movie 'Dr. Strangelove')...

[Right-wing Librarian]

>>I quit using toothpaste years ago, when they started putting fluoride in all of it. I tried using the natural pastes, but they were just plain NASTY.
I’ll just brush/swish with peroxide, rinse and be done, thank you. Once a week, I polish with soda/salt. Haven’t had a cavity in many years.

My dentist told me I just need to brush with water and then rinse with salt water. Of course, I have all implants!

[O Neill]

It has made me go bald.

LOL...er...I mean, sorry 'bout that. Did the same thing to General Buck Turgidson, I heard...

[television is just wrong]

I started using toothpaste from the health food store a while back when I started hearing of poisoned toothpaste from china....

I buy Spry toothpaste.

[fanfan]

Teeth are a double edged sword.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I can’t take much more of China poisoning our products...

[restornu]

There was no immediate reply to an e-mail message left with a Colgate-Palmolive spokesman Wednesday evening.

MS USA Trading, Inc. of North Bergen, N.J., said the toothpaste may contain diethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze.

The company said the toothpaste, imported from South Africa, was sold in discount stores in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

“Made in South Africa” is printed on the box and includes Regular, Gel, Triple and Herbal versions.

Sounds like the the Hand of China again!

[ASA Vet]

Good choice, no longer any need to wonder if it’s PRC Poison. lol.

[blam]

"It has made me go bald."

You're lucky, I'm going blind.

[television is just wrong]

baking soda works well too.

[ASA Vet]

You should have stopped when your mom warned you.

[ASA Vet]

Follow it with a cider vinegar mouth wash.

[Ros42]

I use it too!

From the article..MS USA Trading, Inc. of North Bergen, N.J., said the toothpaste may contain diethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze.

Mine says propylene glycol. Are they even adding diethylene on the ingredients???

[Kieri]

I’ve brushed with baking soda (soft brush!) for several years now but that’s because I’m a wuss. The foaming of toothpaste makes me throw up. Baking soda doesn’t taste that great but it gets the job done...cheaply, too!

[weef]

The company said the toothpaste, imported from South Africa, was sold in discount stores in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

"Made in South Africa" is printed on the box and includes Regular, Gel, Triple and Herbal versions.

From FoxNews.com:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,282036,00.html

Maybe they saved even more $ by importing from South Africa instead of China.

[television is just wrong]

and NO fluroide which a lot of people believe to be poison

[I'm ALL Right!]

...and Colgate will go the way of Peter Pan....and I liked Peter Pan the best. :(

[fanfan]

I can’t take much more of China poisoning our products...

I'm with you.

Now what do we do?

[fanfan]

Maybe they saved even more $ by importing from South Africa instead of China.

Who owns the factory?

[NRA2BFree]

that's not the only poison in your toothpaste... any toothpaste with fluoride. Have you read the warning label on it?

No. I haven't. I guess I better do that now.

And you put this stuff in your mouth? and in your kids mouths?,

Yes. Only in mine. I don't have anyone else to poison. LOL!

Got the emergency number for the poison control center posted by your phone?

Uh oh, I guess I better do that too. ;o)

Seriously, I had NO clue, but I'm certainly going to find out now. What do you use to brush your teeth? I use baking soda sometimes. I wonder if that's bad for them too?

[mom4kittys]

I know the Chinese own many factories in Mexico, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they had some in S. Africa as well. I have no doubt this stuff came from China.

[DumpsterDiver]

Yikes! I use colgate!

Then you better check it out!

The company [MS USA Trading, Inc.] said the [five-ounce tubes] of toothpaste, imported from South Africa, was sold in discount stores in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

"Made in South Africa" is printed on the box and includes Regular, Gel, Triple and Herbal versions.

[beelzepug]

“It has made me go bald.”

Me, too. And it gave me wrinkles.

[cripplecreek]

I see that my Crest toothpaste says “distributed by Proctor and Gamble, Cincinnati Oh” but doesn’t say where it was made so I’m assuming it was made somewhere outside the country.

[maine-iac7]

Don’t forget about the fluoride cities put in the tap water.

i surely don't'

I have written on this many times in my columns - and I choose to live where I have my own sweet well water. If anywhere else, I get spring water - NOT just bottled water.

Did you know that most of the expensive bottled waters, like Pepsi's Aquafina and Coke's Dasani - "purified" water, is nothing but big city tap water? From cities like LA, Denver, Jacksonville.

If it doesn't list the source as spring water on the bottle , it's city tap water.

Want to read some more labels?

Just about all sodas and candies and anything we think of that used to have sugar in them now have, instead, high frutose corn syrup. Sounds safe? NOT. it's pure poison. Research it. Not only is it dangerous to your health, is puts on more pounds than sugar.

And then there's the problem with ANY carbonated drink..with reported studies linking them to loss of bone density - which can result in osteoporosis. (I learned the hard way. I was a "coke-a-holic" for years - and one day, I was 'attacked' with excruciating pain = two vertebrae had suddenly fractured: osteoporosis. I went cold turkey on the cola - )

We simply have to be our own physicians for the most part. And we are fortunate with the plethora of information now in print and on the net.

[fanfan]

Off topic.

It’s amazing how things work out.

I bet you never thought that you would have this ping list responsibility when you decided to join and make a few posts, on FR.

Good on you.
And thank you.

:-)

[mewzilla]

The company [MS USA Trading, Inc.]

I can find bugger all on that company...

[Silly]

I brush with Clorox. The teeth I have left are very white and very clean.

[3D-JOY]

Now that made me Laugh!

I wonder what I could blame on it. I need a lot of excuses!

graying hair
thickening waist
splitting nails
sagging....oops better quit now!!!!LOL

[Moonman62]

that's not the only poison in your toothpaste... any toothpaste with fluoride. Have you read the warning label on it? And you put this stuff in your mouth? and in your kids mouths?,

OPE

POE

[3D-JOY]

It was just a matter of time until we hit a BIG BRAND...

Now watch all the dominoes start to fall!

[advertising guy]

crap, I’ve used Colgate so long I can spell
Colgate. Crap.