Ind. Supplier Recalls Tainted Toothpaste

August 14, 2007

  • August 14, 2007 at 11:25 am
    lastbat says:
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    China is lashing back saying foreign media are trying to make China look bad before the 2008 Olympics. The problem isn’t really that they have poor controls and a corrupt system – it’s the media that tells us about it. This sounds familiar somehow.

  • August 14, 2007 at 1:59 am
    Blue Max says:
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    Fool me once fool me twice…. I will go out of my way, spend more time and spend more money to avoid products made in China primarily because of the country’s suppression of it’s citizens. Now I must add the uncertainty of health safety issues. I am unwilling to take the chance and suggest many of you consider the same. I can only imagine what we would hear if there was no restriction of media coverage in China. When an unsafe product is discovered there seems to be no records available to work backwards to identify and fix the problem at it’s source. Try breaking your bones on a defective trampoline made in China or die from poisoning and see what little recourse you have.

  • August 14, 2007 at 2:00 am
    Patriot says:
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    Tickles me pink to see U. S. Companies going through the expense of recalling China made products.
    Do you think there was any money saved after the expense of the recall.
    If they had not been so cheap, used US manufacturers I bet in the long run it would have been cheaper.
    If I am harmed in anyway by a product mfg in a foriegn country because the US company was trying to save a penny!!! I will sue their *** off!

  • August 14, 2007 at 2:10 am
    CF says:
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    While I agree that there are issues with products from China, if many of these companies wouldn’t have gotten some or all of the product(s) from China, they would have lost significant market share because most people in this country don’t care about quality, where it’s made, etc. They just look at the bottom line. So once one company does this, the competitors have to oftentimes do it just to stay in business. Look at GEICO, Safe Auto, etc. for example.

  • August 14, 2007 at 3:33 am
    patriot says:
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    say what? Big business can be competitive without off shore employees and mfg. They just want more and more.

    Besides I did not know Geico, Save Auto (?) operated off shore. Seems like the ones I have talked to live and work in the US.

    Big business and big government are loving folks that view things as you do.

    For me I will buy my stuff, if at all possible, made in America. You should too!

  • August 14, 2007 at 4:55 am
    Shield says:
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    I used to be very picky about buying only products made in the USA. I have to admit over the years I’ve gotten very lazy about it do to saving dollars and often not being able to find a product made in the US. I do intend to be more vigilant about buying Goods made in the USA and I definitely will do my damndest to avoid buying Chinese products.

  • August 15, 2007 at 9:46 am
    FCASCPCU says:
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    “Luxury” hotels, indeed. Lovely, respectable, British-sounding brand name made in sweatshops in China.

    When I travel I bring my US-manufactured, organic, no-animals-were-harmed tooth powder from the Tree-Hugger store with me. I boight it last year when they started the “no-liquids” insanity on planes and use it now because I like it and I don’t have to hassle with stuffing it in a Freedom Baggie. Looks like I may have saved myself some kidney trouble.

    And I will continue to boycott Chinese products whenever possible (too bad about my iPod).

  • August 15, 2007 at 12:30 pm
    Walter Jones says:
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    Food, toys, tires and now toiletries? Where does it all end? Its not just a lack of controls by the Chinese government, but it seems like ethics on the part of both the ultimate owners of the product, and also the companies in China seem to be sorely lacking. I think that capitalism is really the best way to go, but unfettered capitalism is an amoral beast at best. Add that to the irony of a Communist dictatorship who seems to want it both ways and you do have a bad mix of business practices taking place. We should avoid Chinese made products whenever we can and I for one, will do my best to avoid insuring the US arms of these entities. Lets see who else will stand up in the insurance community.

  • August 15, 2007 at 3:51 am
    The Dude says:
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    What’s that tooth powder from the hippy store called? I might just give it a whirl.

    Thanks in advance.

    -The Dude, Duder, or El Dude-arino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing…
    (its a “Big Lebowski” reference…its ok if you haven’t heard of the movie.)

  • August 17, 2007 at 2:45 am
    FCASCPCU says:
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    Eco-Debt. I get it at Wild Oats but you can also find it on the Web.



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