Top Chinese manufacturing recalls

Actually, I would refrain from buying anything from China that is a food product, tires, and toys for children.

The latest problem of products from China is their toothpaste. They have detected car coolant in it.

And this is the latest country to promise an eclipse of the American Empire?

1) Pollution
2) Corruption
3) Huge discrepancies between the haves and have nots
4) Inordinate spending on the military
5) Restrictions of personal liberties

These are the sins that so many assert signal the decline of the American Empire.

Guess what? China has them in spades PLUS widespread contamination of food products. When was the last time an America had a company which sold baby formula that actually killed babies? China recently has.

How long before "Made in China" invokes fear in the consumer nations that seek cheap sino-labor.

The Chinese have it worse, the ones that can afford it (those miserable "haves") are paying five times the cost of local products to get their food from import sources. "I am buying security." Says one Chinese. "We see food as we see the sky," says another "if food fails the sky falls."

If the USSR didn't prove it to us, China will. Only democratic capitalism, and all that it entails, can assure lasting power.

Some of this is harder than it seems. There was a thread earlier on a2k on the toothpaste issue. As I remember, not having the data at hand, some chinese company had shiped the so-called glycerin to Spain improperly labeled, that was bought - I think as a Spanish product - by (I forget whom) in Panama, and the Panamanian government then made the cold medicine(odd to me in itself). Point being, not every chinese import is labelled from China.

Next, some items in a lot of our products are primarily made in China. I saw a list recently, seem to remember citric acid. In my label reading, I see that all the time.. (not that anyone has found a problem with citric acid just yet.)

Here's the a2k link to the article Miller posted that has some of the complications explained:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2644903&highlight=toothpaste#2644903