RWS at RightWingCafe on Aug 24 2007 | Filed under: China
Yep, I’ve had to make a Chinese poisoning category for the high number incidents from China. Why the heck do we have to buy products from this country in the first place? Look below for today’s sometimes laughable but potentially dangerous products made in China…
A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Aug 22 2007 | Filed under: China, Feature Article
China is now accusing the U.S. of exporting soybeans that are loaded with pesticides in retaliation for their own lack of quality control and regulatory oversight. This is rich. The country that could care less about what goes into food, toys, or eight year olds working as slave labor, is going to try [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Aug 21 2007 | Filed under: China, Feature Article, Health and Science, Linkfest
Once again China has made the news; the latest, children’s clothing containing formaldehyde. Even more shocking is the amount of formaldehyde that the clothing contained. The normal person reacts to formaldehyde at 20 parts per million or ppm. According to the New Zealand government, the clothing they tested contained between 230ppm to [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Aug 13 2007 | Filed under: China
The AP is reporting that Zhang Shuhong, co-owner of Lee Der Industrial Col Ltd committed suicide in one of the manufacturing warehouses over the weekend.
Recently, China has been under a lot of scrutiny over the safety of its exported products.
Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned Lee Der Industrial Co. Ltd., killed himself at a warehouse [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Aug 10 2007 | Filed under: China
China can say that its toys are safe and that the recall numbers are low considering the number exported, but they are only referring to their toys.
Jodi at Webloggin on Aug 02 2007 | Filed under: China, Feature Article, Linkfest
Once again we have another recall on toys made in China. I have written previous stories on the pitfalls associated with doing business with China and this is just another example.
Some of our wonderful Chinese imports are:
Wheat gluten which was contaminated with the chemical melamine, that was also used in our pet [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Jul 23 2007 | Filed under: China, Feature Article
On July 12th I reported on a story from Beijing that accused some vendors of selling steamed buns made from cutup cardboard, softened with industrial chemicals, and flavored with fatty pork.
I received a Reuters report from The Intolerant Fox stating that the previous story was bogus and that Beijing authorities are reporting that [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Jul 20 2007 | Filed under: China
BEIJING - China said Friday it had shut down several firms at the heart of food and drug safety scares, its latest move to clean up those industries and salvage its reputation as a reliable exporter.
Li Changjiang, head of the General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, said officials were focusing on stricter market [...]
Jodi at Webloggin on Jul 18 2007 | Filed under: China, Feature Article
China will use rockets in an attempt to move rain out of the Beijing area during the Olympics; this is much different than what they usually use the weather rocket method for. Normally Beijing is short on water, so to combat this they shoot “chemical-infused rockets” into the clouds to spur rainfall.
China will fire [...]
Terry Trippany on Jul 14 2007 | Filed under: China, Linkfest, What the?
China is retaliating against U.S. business interests because someone had the gall to point out that the Eastern Asian country is quietly poisoning themselves and the rest of the world with substandard products that wouldn’t be fit to feed to a dog (literally).
