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After the many bans and recalls on goods and food from China in the last few years the good news is they are on to it! Could it be the recent deaths and health scares worldwide that prompted them to take action and ban DEG in toothpaste, close down many food manufacturers, jail 5 top ranking officials and execute the former head of the State Food and Drug Administration?
So yayyyyyyyyyyy you go China and tighten your safety procedures. Although, this does not sound promising from China’s Food and Drug spokesperson Yan Jiangying “As a developing country, China’s food and drug supervision work began late and its foundations are weak,” she said. “Therefore, the food and drug safety situation is not something we can be optimistic about.”
A few 2007 examples:
UNITED KINGDOM – Pharmaceutical maker GlaxoSmithKline announced that fake tubes of it’s Sensodyne toothpaste have been discovered containing DEG (diethylene glycol) – a substance used in antifreeze and solvents. The company stated that the fake products were being linked with China.
1.5 million of the popular Thomas the Tank Engine toys are being recalled. The toys, made in China, contain lead paint especially dangerous for children.SOUTH AFRICA – Announced a pet food recall after more than 30 dogs died from eating food contaminated with melamine-tainted ingredients imported from China.
PANAMA – Families, last year, reported 365 deaths 94 confirmed so far, after taking medicines that had a chemical supplied by China which was contaminated with diethylene glycol.
CANADA – Several animal feed products have recently been detained after testing positive for melamine and/or cyanuric acid contamination. In mid-May, one shipment of corn gluten imported from China tested positive.
On June 5, an amino acid product imported from China and destined for use in animal feed tested positive for cyanuric acid.CHINA – Antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths. Xinua news agency China’s food safety watchdog said almost 20 percent of products made for consumption within China were found to be substandard in the first half of 2007. Canned and preserved fruit and dried fish were the most problematic, primarily because of excessive bacteria and additives, the agency said.
SPAIN – Authorities informed the EU on 5 July that they had found DEG in samples of Chinese made toothpaste included in toilet bags given to patients in hospitals, and possibly clients in hotels and passengers on airplanes.
USA – Catfish, dace, shrimp, basa and eel will not be allowed into the U.S from China until the importer can show products meet U.S. requirements and safety standards.
Officials have uncovered a series of unsafe products imported from China, including a discovery of melamine in U.S. pet food. Other recalls include toothpaste, tyres that fell apart, Chinese jewellery contianing lead, too many to mention.EU – Philip Tod, spokesman for EU Health Commissioner confirmed an increase in the number of food products imported into the EU from China found to contain dangerous veterinary residues reported in the last year.
While reading about this I have been amazed at the dangerously high level of chemicals and deadly toxins that have shown up, not just recently, but over the years and yet not too much has been heard of it until now hmmmmmmmmmmm! But China hasn’t just started to export goods, maybe the boom has happened to quickly, maybe the western world is too greedy, maybe there is more to this than meets the eye.
However, the normally secretive communist government seems to be cooperating and tackling their food and drug problems so thats good right? And it was also said by the Xinua news agency that athletes and vistors attending the 2008 Olympics should not be concerned by the recent food scandals as safety measures are being put into place. So it seems China has committed to food and product safety!
But does this make you wary of buying Chinese products ( although it’s hard not too lol) or does it put you off buying them altogether?
China is an evil communist nation, thus all goods from there should be banned. Full stop!
Herro you lil fekker
About time this has come to light, maybe this should be on the front pages instead of Paris Hilton being in the news all the time. Makes you think how long this has gone on for. I noticed you mentioned about them using lead paint on toys for kids in the uk, in the U.S they banned the use of lead paint in the late 70’s, why are they so far behind???
..because they’re communist. The products are also made by slaves. You have no problem wearing clothes made by slaves, you’re all as evil as the Chinese.
Hey Smiley check your goats food bag…..in an annual report 666 deluxe, reversible, Union Jack feed bags, thought to be made in England; were actually made in China! OMG
I don’t know why the lead paint was used big fecker or why it hasn’t been banned, but at a guess, I would say it was cheaper, the same reason the product was purchased from China in the first place.
Makes you wonder how many people inside China are getting sick or dying!
Toymaker Fisher Price is to recall almost one million Chinese-made toys over fears that their paint contains too much lead.
An internal probe found the Chinese manufacturer had used a non-approved paint pigment, violating its safety standards, the company said.
The recall affects 83 types of toy that have been on sale in the US since May.
It is the latest in a series of safety scares involving goods – food, drugs and other products – made in China.
Mattel Inc, which owns Fisher Price, said that the recall affected a total of 967,000 toys, including characters popular with young children such as Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Elmo.
The company said that it was removing the products from shops and would intercept incoming shipments.
bbc.co.uk
August 13, 2007
BEIJING (Reuters) – The boss of a Chinese toy manufacturing company involved in a Mattel recall after its products were found to contain excessive lead levels has hanged himself, Chinese media reported on Monday.
Zhang Shuhong, a Hong Kong businessman in his 50s and boss of the Lida Toy Company in the southern province of Guangdong, was found dead in his factory workshop on Saturday, the semi-official Southern Metropolitan Daily said.
About 1.5 million preschool toys made by Lida Toy, a Foshan-based contract manufacturer for Mattel Inc.’s Fisher-Price unit, were recalled across the globe by the U.S. company last week.
The recalled toys included popular preschool characters such as Elmo and Big Bird and dozens of other items. The case was the latest in a deluge of product safety scares that have tainted the “made-in-China” brand.
August 16, 2007
China – On Thursday hit out at the foreign press and “irresponsible people” for raising fears about Chinese-made toys and other exports that have been recalled due to safety concerns.
“Some media and irresponsible people take a small problem and make it into a large one,” Commerce Ministry spokesperson Wang Xinpei told reporters when asked about various recalls, most recently by US toy giant Mattel.
“The Chinese government steadfastly opposes these actions by irresponsible people.”
August 22, 2007
New Zealand – Chinese-made blankets are being recalled in Australia and New Zealand because they contain high levels of potentially dangerous formaldehyde, the importer said on Wednesday.
Amid rising concerns about the safety of Chinese exports and tests showing high levels of the chemical in Chinese clothing imported into New Zealand, consumers were warned to return the blankets.
Wholesale firm Charles Parsons said the level of fomaldehyde in the Superlux brand of blankets “may cause short-term skin or respiratory irritation”.
August 23, 2007
Two US toy companies on Wednesday recalled more than 300 000 Chinese-made toys, saying they contain potentially dangerous levels of lead.
Two other companies also recalled nearly 22 000 pieces of children’s jewellery, saying they, too, contained excessive levels of lead.
The alerts come eight days after a massive global recall by US toy giant Mattel, of 18 million toys that were made in China.
The latest recall included 250 000 Sponge Bob spiral address books and journals, 66 000 spinning tops, including some from the popular Thomas the Tank Engine series, and 4 700 pails, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said in separate statements issued jointly with the two companies concerned.
The paint on the metal spiral bindings of the address books and journals, and on the metal handles of the tops and pails, “contain excessive levels of lead,” the US importers of the toys, Martin Designs of Ohio and Schylling Associates of Massachusetts, said.
24.comAugust 27, 2007
BEIJING (AFP) – A design fault was mostly to blame for US toy giant Mattel’s recall of millions of products, not the Chinese manufacturers, China’s chief safety watchdog said Monday.
Li Changjiang also said Chinese factories were in the clear over the alleged discovery of the dangerous formaldehyde chemical in clothing sold in New Zealand, as he sought to reassure the world over the “Made-in-China” label.
Yahoo.comAugust 28, 2007
Some 9 500 Chinese-made steel-toed boots were recalled on Tuesday in the United States amid fears wearers could suffer electric shock, the consumer protection agency announced.
“The recalled logger boots could be incorrectly labeled as resistant to electrical current. This poses a shock hazard to consumers who come in contact with an electrical current,” the statement said.
This recall involves Caterpillar brand steel toe logger boots. The boots were sold in women’s and men’s sizes. Women’s boots were sold in black and have stock number P88030. Men’s boots were sold in brown and black and have stock numbers P88033 or P88034. Stock numbers are printed on a label on the tongue of the shoe. The Caterpillar logo and “EH” are also printed on the label. The word “Caterpillar” is printed on the outside of the boots.
24.comI guess i will have to return my blow up farm yard animals.
Its time western coun tries banned ALL imports from countries that dont have similar working conditions to our own
For years we have had to endure the pathetic hollow foundationless whining of mamby pamby hippies about “fair trade” and level playing fields in connection with uncivilised shit holes like africa, but they are too busy hating their own heritage and countries to apply the exact same ethos of “fair trade” when its backwards countries stealing the market place because our level of holiday, pay, sick pay, maternity leave, health and safety et al mean we cant compete with sweat shops and countries where labour is paid pittance
So in the interest of fair trade we SHOULDNT allow imports of any goods from any country that doesnt meet a similar standard of working codes and standards of pay and entitlement for its workforce and maybe then we would have a government that would be creating and protecting british jobs and the people they are supposed to represent rather than one that seems intent on making other countries rich and strong at the expense of our own
What a gamble though, think of all the people and animals that would die or get sick. Oh but they are already! Interesting point!
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