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china product recall.........please read

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slim22 · 22/08/2007 14:35

Hi, I'm living in singapore and we are hearing a lot of scarry stories. Don't know how much has filtered in UK but here is the latest.

little boy with third degree burns in NZ from a pyjama that self ignited at the proximity of gas fire.
Burned so severely needed a graft.
These PJs contained 900 times the dose of formalhydrade. Can cause severe rashes/and ignite just like that if left on a radiator,
Warehouse NZ has just taken all these textiles off the racks.

You probably all heard about the mattell 18 million toy recall, see local stories below.

We had colgate toothpast laced with poisonnous chemicals last month and last week thailand advised against consuming fruit and veg from china due to extremely high level of pesticides.
There are so many china made products here (even famous US brand peanut butter is produced in China for the asia market) that we are starting to be cautious.

There are stories in the papers everyday. And what we are talking about now is not just all the rubish usual additives. We are talking major scale lack of quality control and thus poisonning due to negligence/greed or downright tampering.

Just be aware

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speedymama · 22/08/2007 14:41

Thank you Slim. DH and I have been discussing this because we are particularly alarmed about counterfeit drugs that are finding their way into the UK.

Some of my colleagues are under contract to develop surveillance techniques to ascertain the level or even presence of active ingredients in the drugs that they have been asked to look at.

I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

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slim22 · 23/08/2007 01:21

OMG did not know about drugs!!!

I'm glad to hear this is being monitored. It's just so unbelievable that such household names as the western companies involved just simply seem to have skipped/dropped quality control.

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mamama · 23/08/2007 01:37

We had the colgate with drugs thing in the US too...

mamama · 23/08/2007 01:39

I meant the colgate with poisons - not sure what they were but were potentially toxic.

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slim22 · 23/08/2007 02:24

it was antigel !

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inthepink · 23/08/2007 06:16

Hi Slim, was the colgate toothpaste from China as well - just going to check the packaging on ours

inthepink · 23/08/2007 06:17

just checked - made in Saudi Arabia!!

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slim22 · 23/08/2007 06:18

yes, manufactured in china

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slim22 · 23/08/2007 06:19

you safe then

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inthepink · 23/08/2007 06:22

Thanks Slim, just can't be too careful these days!!

Egypt · 23/08/2007 06:30

blimmin' eck, my colgate is manufactured in china. that's for the bin then.....

Egypt · 23/08/2007 06:32

altho i've used half of it and i'm still here

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slim22 · 23/08/2007 06:38

hey Egypt

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paulaplumpbottom · 23/08/2007 10:21

Time for me to go back to crest then

Isababel · 23/08/2007 10:24

Do you have a website that may offer more information about what to be careful about? I have gone through the toys but had not even contemplated the idea that I need to be wary about toothpaste

expatinscotland · 23/08/2007 10:24

Play it again, Cassandra!

I've been banging on about scenarios like this for years.

When people continue demanding cheaper and cheaper products that's exactly what they're going to get.

Buy as locally as possible.

Isababel · 23/08/2007 10:29

Poor transnational coorporations! the things they are forced to do to safeguard our pockets!

I don't buy that, TBH. They don't want things cheaper they just want to make a bigger profot out of it!

MerlinsBeard · 23/08/2007 10:29

you have to remember that each country has (or at least should have ) measures inplace to check prpducts. just because for example, colgate is unsafe in singapore, it doesn't mean its unsafe here as well. Just an example.
until they get recalled there is no point shunning all products posibly made in china. don't forget some are made in china but assembled in other countries and vice versa so you might even know where it came from in the first place.

expatinscotland · 23/08/2007 10:31

You can't deny consumers want cheaper products, Isabel, as much as shareholders want big profits.

All you have to do is look at the food industry in the country for proof of that. Tesco and ASDA putting hte nation's food producers out of business because of the demand for cheaper and cheaper food.

It's coming home to roost.

expatinscotland · 23/08/2007 10:33

Cheap school uniforms and clothes, anyone?

Tesco ads showing a woman throwing away a dress and buying another one when it gets dirty?

Isababel · 23/08/2007 10:34

But do we demand those prices or we end up with those so they can beat each other in the price competition?

I understand I wouldn't be prepared to pay the amount of money for a particular Mattel toy at the prices they were offered in the past, but neither were my parents and I have not been damaged by that.

expatinscotland · 23/08/2007 10:36

What has what your parents would have done got to do with what's happening in China today?

Like I said, just look at what's happened to this nation's food producers.

expatinscotland · 23/08/2007 10:37

We demand those cheap prices everytime we chose to buy stuff as cheap as possible over say, locally produced, used/recycle or fair-trade products, for example.

paulaplumpbottom · 23/08/2007 10:39

That commercial ticked me off to Expat

speedymama · 23/08/2007 10:41

Absolutely Expat.

ON TV, Asda were advertising school polo shirts for £2. I said to DH how can they sell them so cheaply (I knew the answer of course) but I still had to say it.

I hope this is the beginning of the end for manic consumerism.