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

[slim22]

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

My own sister makes me sick with her wastefulness and consumerism. She's completely obvlious to the fact that it's not sustainable and our own children and grandchildren will pay for the price for it.

I found that Tesco ad unbelievable. What is wrong with washing clothes when they become dirty?

My DM's best friend has a couple of granddaughters who can only be described as airheads. They don't believe in wearing everyday clothes more than 5 or 6 times! Clothes for going out on the town only get worn once because you cannot be seen in the same dress twice.

I'm still wearing a sweatshirt my DB bought me for christmas when I was 16yo - I'm now 42!

I wonder why do we have to end up in the same consumerism race they had managed to establish in the US.

I also get fuming at the consumerism of my family and some friends on the other side of the Atlantic. The attitude could be summarised in the phrase: Who cares about the environment??? waht would the neighbours think of me if I walk to the corner shop?

And the amount of rubish that gets produced, mostly due to flashy packaging than actual leftovers themselves. Here we sometime fill a wheelie bin in a week, there you would be expecting to have daily rubish collection for exactly the same quantity of rubish.

But I still think that is the corporations who are driving us into this rather than the other way around.

Actually, I don't even blame China, they should be into a huge amount of pressure by this companies to keep costs ridiculously low to avoid the companies moving their business somewhere else.

Speedy, I've got shoes I've had since 1989 that are still going strong!

I think, too, that our generation is also different in that many of us had parents who were young children during WWII and/or lived with grandparents who had, and of course the attitude towards waste is very different from now.

"Actually, I don't even blame China, they should be into a huge amount of pressure by this companies to keep costs ridiculously low to avoid the companies moving their business somewhere else. " Agree, it is the drive for profit from multi-million pound corporations who then fail to do basic quality control of what is produced and pass the responsibilty entirely onto the low paid manufacturing companies. It makes me [angry} that they think they can absolve themselves oif responsibility in this way. There was a big push a few years ago, with international tarif and quota changes, to encourage direct trade with China but even before then products or their components were imported via Hong Kong etc at substantial profit margins.

I'm not going to get into this discussion because it's one of those where we all agree but can't seem to find a common voice. modern day slavery, big bucks etc..............

So bottom line is, we are getting weary of all china made products here, not only those that are recalled. And it is making shopping a very difficult task.
What you must know: foodstuffs are loaded with additives, the sort that make little children hyper and give migraines and probably cancer if used on a daily basis like soy sauce in this part of the world.
Of course it is more of a problem here because we eat the stuff everyday.
So just keep your ears open for updates in your local media.

Thought the New Zealand story would have hit the news in the UK. And thought you might want to know since it's warehouse which is a household name back home.
just be aware.

Cheap clothes are a false economy anyway, in the long run they aren't cheaper because you have to replace the more often. Its like that with so many things from toasters to bed sheets. Buy a good quality product and it will last forver