Webloggin » Poison Chinese Import Round-Up

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 pairs a day without any form of disinfection.
Chinese-made blankets containing high levels of formaldehyde have been recalled across Australia and New Zealand
Retailer Toys “R” Us said on Friday it removed all Hamco Inc.’s vinyl baby bibs
American bottlers of apple juice have been using concentrate from China in the production of their apple juice for the past five years.

I guess it will take a full blown outbreak of some exotic bacteria or sickness from chemicals to catch the attention of most people as they really just go to work each day and don’t think twice about the seafood they just picked up from the store. As for me, I will not buy anything from China unless there isn’t an American equivalent or it is made from a first world location. The other day I went to Home Depot to purchase a Crescent-type wrench and noticed that the “Husky” brand was a couple of dollars cheaper and marked “China”. Then I looked at the “Crescent” brand and noticed it was only a couple of bucks more but the handle had been dipped in sponge rubber for comfort and it was clealy marked “USA”. Well that settled it for me, I grabbed the American one and off I went. I wonder how many of you scrutinize the same way.

Go here to see that China isn’t the only supplier of poisonous food products.

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