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you mean those shichuan earthquake victims are those responsible for those food ?
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you mean those shichuan earthquake victims are those responsible for those food ?
Can the relevant authority pls check all food items from China before they can be on our shelf?...This will take time and manpower but please..be proactive and not reactive...Fuckin PRC fuckers even go to the extent of killing babies!!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/19/toxic-chinese-chairs-plag_n_127793.html?view=print
PARIS — After tainted baby milk, now toxic chairs from China.
Customers in France who bought Chinese-made recliners are complaining of stinging allergic rashes and infections.
One customer, Caroline Morin, said Friday she was stunned to learn the chair she bought last December appears to have caused the skin problems she says she suffered for months.
"You sit comfortably on something and in fact you have a bomb under your butt," she said.
The French distributor, Conforama, warned clients in July that some of the chairs and sofas presented an allergy risk "in rare cases." It has withdrawn them from sale and now says the health problems were linked to an anti-fungal chemical in the chairs.
The affair gained attention this week following French media reports exposing problems suffered by people who bought the chairs.
One was Dolores Ennrich, who says that because of long-term illness she spent a lot of time sitting in the recliner she purchased in March 2007.
She says she suffered painful eczema and skin infections on her left thigh, back and left arm that put her in a hospital for 12 days and led doctors to prescribe repeated courses of antibiotics.
"It went away, it came back, it went away. That went on for more than a year," she told The Associated Press. "It is very painful."
Conforama says it has severed its commercial ties with the Chinese supplier, Linkwise, and told its other suppliers to no longer use the chemical, dimethyl fumarate, to prevent mold.
Linkwise is based in the manufacturing hub of Dongguan in southern China.
A man who answered the phone at the company said Friday that it is working with the Chinese government's quality inspection watchdog to investigate the problem. He would not give details, his name or title.
Floods of cheap Chinese products on world markets have also been accompanied in recent years by scares over poor quality, particularly involving food.
The latest Chinese product crisis involves baby formula made from milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. It has been blamed for the deaths of four babies and illnesses in 6,200 others in China. Previous scandals involved contaminated seafood, toothpaste and a pet food ingredient, also tainted with melamine, blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States.
"Chinese, it's really dangerous. There's the chairs. The milk ...," said Ennrich. "We pay less but there are consequences."
Normally, just one sachet of the anti-mold chemical is meant to be inserted into the chairs, but some contained as many as 10, said a Conforama spokeswoman, Stephanie Mathieu.
She said the Chinese firm told Conforama that "as it was the monsoon season they decided that they needed to put more sachets in."
Conforama said it sold 38,000 of the Linkwise chairs and that customers have so far returned 800 of them.
Le Parisien newspaper, which has covered the case extensively this week, said the French Finance Ministry's market regulator, which polices consumer safety, is investigating to check that everything possible was done to protect clients.
Morin said she didn't make the connection between her skin problems and her recliner until she got a letter from Conforama in July.
"The chair has been out of my house for a month, and I feel a bit better, but I still have problems," she said.
A rash of cases have cropped up in Britain, too. British attorney Christian Shotton said his law firm, Russell, Jones & Walker, is representing 1,300 people who bought Linkwise recliners and sofas from British retailers and who are suing for compensation. He said there have been other cases in Sweden and Finland.
"Some of the children, some of the babies, are covered head to toe," in burns, rashes and infections, Shotton said.
"Some of the people sit on the sofa for 15 minutes and it looks like they have been out in the sun all day."
PARIS — After tainted baby milk, now toxic chairs from China.
Customers in France who bought Chinese-made recliners are complaining of stinging allergic rashes and infections.
One customer, Caroline Morin, said Friday she was stunned to learn the chair she bought last December appears to have caused the skin problems she says she suffered for months.
"You sit comfortably on something and in fact you have a bomb under your butt," she said.
The French distributor, Conforama, warned clients in July that some of the chairs and sofas presented an allergy risk "in rare cases." It has withdrawn them from sale and now says the health problems were linked to an anti-fungal chemical in the chairs.
The affair gained attention this week following French media reports exposing problems suffered by people who bought the chairs.
One was Dolores Ennrich, who says that because of long-term illness she spent a lot of time sitting in the recliner she purchased in March 2007.
She says she suffered painful eczema and skin infections on her left thigh, back and left arm that put her in a hospital for 12 days and led doctors to prescribe repeated courses of antibiotics.
"It went away, it came back, it went away. That went on for more than a year," she told The Associated Press. "It is very painful."
Conforama says it has severed its commercial ties with the Chinese supplier, Linkwise, and told its other suppliers to no longer use the chemical, dimethyl fumarate, to prevent mold.
Linkwise is based in the manufacturing hub of Dongguan in southern China.
A man who answered the phone at the company said Friday that it is working with the Chinese government's quality inspection watchdog to investigate the problem. He would not give details, his name or title.
Floods of cheap Chinese products on world markets have also been accompanied in recent years by scares over poor quality, particularly involving food.
The latest Chinese product crisis involves baby formula made from milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine. It has been blamed for the deaths of four babies and illnesses in 6,200 others in China. Previous scandals involved contaminated seafood, toothpaste and a pet food ingredient, also tainted with melamine, blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States.
"Chinese, it's really dangerous. There's the chairs. The milk ...," said Ennrich. "We pay less but there are consequences."
Normally, just one sachet of the anti-mold chemical is meant to be inserted into the chairs, but some contained as many as 10, said a Conforama spokeswoman, Stephanie Mathieu.
She said the Chinese firm told Conforama that "as it was the monsoon season they decided that they needed to put more sachets in."
Conforama said it sold 38,000 of the Linkwise chairs and that customers have so far returned 800 of them.
Le Parisien newspaper, which has covered the case extensively this week, said the French Finance Ministry's market regulator, which polices consumer safety, is investigating to check that everything possible was done to protect clients.
Morin said she didn't make the connection between her skin problems and her recliner until she got a letter from Conforama in July.
"The chair has been out of my house for a month, and I feel a bit better, but I still have problems," she said.
A rash of cases have cropped up in Britain, too. British attorney Christian Shotton said his law firm, Russell, Jones & Walker, is representing 1,300 people who bought Linkwise recliners and sofas from British retailers and who are suing for compensation. He said there have been other cases in Sweden and Finland.
"Some of the children, some of the babies, are covered head to toe," in burns, rashes and infections, Shotton said.
"Some of the people sit on the sofa for 15 minutes and it looks like they have been out in the sun all day."
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bro, it's not just food they gotta check lol
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do they even care about human lives? i'm boycotting all processed food products from China.
So this is the "Asian value" the Old Fart espouses?
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080921/tap-as-singapore-china-tainted-food-832f4ab.html
By ALEX KENNEDY,Associated Press Writer AP - 2 hours 35 minutes ago
SINGAPORE - Singapore has found traces of a toxic chemical in a third Chinese-made dairy product as a scandal over tainted milk spreads across Asia, authorities said Sunday.
Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority, known as AVA, said samples of White Rabbit-brand Creamy Candy imported from China were contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure.
Authorities on Friday suspended the sale and import of all Chinese milk and dairy products after finding melamine in samples of a Yili-brand yogurt bar and Dutch Lady-brand strawberry milk manufactured in China. The ban includes milk, ice cream, yogurt, chocolate, biscuits and candy, as well as any other products containing milk from China as an ingredient.
"Retailers and importers have been instructed to recall these products and withhold them from sale," the AVA said in a statement. "Consumers who have bought the affected products are advised not to consume them."
Melamine has been blamed in China for four infant deaths and illnesses in 6,200 who drank tainted milk powder. A 3-year-old girl in Hong Kong was also diagnosed with a kidney stone after drinking milk containing melamine.
Since the problem of tainted milk products became public knowledge less than two weeks ago, the crisis has spread to include almost all of China's biggest dairy companies. Their products have been pulled from stores around the country, and in other places such as the self-governing Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macau. Starbucks stopped offering milk in its 300 outlets in China.
Hong Kong's two main supermarket chains said Sunday that they were recalling milk powder made by Swiss manufacturer Nestle after a newspaper reported it contains melamine.
Taiwanese company King Car Co. announced it has recalled packs of its Mr. Brown instant coffee and milk tea containing contaminated milk powder imported from China.
Japan recalled Chinese-made dairy products, and the governments of Malaysia and Brunei announced bans on milk products from China even though neither country currently imports Chinese dairy items.
Associated Press writer Scott McDonald contributed to this report.
By ALEX KENNEDY,Associated Press Writer AP - 2 hours 35 minutes ago
SINGAPORE - Singapore has found traces of a toxic chemical in a third Chinese-made dairy product as a scandal over tainted milk spreads across Asia, authorities said Sunday.
Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority, known as AVA, said samples of White Rabbit-brand Creamy Candy imported from China were contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure.
Authorities on Friday suspended the sale and import of all Chinese milk and dairy products after finding melamine in samples of a Yili-brand yogurt bar and Dutch Lady-brand strawberry milk manufactured in China. The ban includes milk, ice cream, yogurt, chocolate, biscuits and candy, as well as any other products containing milk from China as an ingredient.
"Retailers and importers have been instructed to recall these products and withhold them from sale," the AVA said in a statement. "Consumers who have bought the affected products are advised not to consume them."
Melamine has been blamed in China for four infant deaths and illnesses in 6,200 who drank tainted milk powder. A 3-year-old girl in Hong Kong was also diagnosed with a kidney stone after drinking milk containing melamine.
Since the problem of tainted milk products became public knowledge less than two weeks ago, the crisis has spread to include almost all of China's biggest dairy companies. Their products have been pulled from stores around the country, and in other places such as the self-governing Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macau. Starbucks stopped offering milk in its 300 outlets in China.
Hong Kong's two main supermarket chains said Sunday that they were recalling milk powder made by Swiss manufacturer Nestle after a newspaper reported it contains melamine.
Taiwanese company King Car Co. announced it has recalled packs of its Mr. Brown instant coffee and milk tea containing contaminated milk powder imported from China.
Japan recalled Chinese-made dairy products, and the governments of Malaysia and Brunei announced bans on milk products from China even though neither country currently imports Chinese dairy items.
Associated Press writer Scott McDonald contributed to this report.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/ap/20080922/tap-as-china-dairy-farmers-bb10fb8.html
By GILLIAN WONG,Associated Press Writer <cite class="auth">AP - 2 hours 40 minutes ago</cite>
YANGJIAZHAI, China - Yang Lianying frowned at the large steel tank that he and other Chinese dairy farmers in his village filled earlier in the day with milk from their cows. Bending down, he turned a red valve at the base of the container, releasing the cool, white liquid in a gush onto the concrete floor.
Amid a scandal over tainted milk that has ground China's dairy industry to a halt, farmers like Yang are being forced to toss out fresh milk and are being squeezed by feed costs they can't recoup.
"Nobody wants our milk right now," Yang said as he hosed and swept his income out the shed's back door.
Farmers like Yang, who lives in north China's Hebei province, are part of an industry that has lost public trust after tons of infant formula and other milk products were found to be contaminated with melamine, a chemical used in plastics and fertilizers, sickening more than 6,200 children and leaving four dead.
About a dozen local dairy farmers the Associated Press spoke to in Hebei complained they are not the ones responsible for the scandal that is costing them their livlihood.
Lacking buyers, the farmers are now forced to dump freshly pumped milk or peddle it to nearby villagers. And as uncertainties grow over the scale of the crisis, others say they plan to sell their cows before further losses mount.
Investigators say some raw milk suppliers, in hopes of clearing more profit, may have watered down their milk to increase volume and then added the industrial chemical melamine, which is high in nitrogen and artificially appears to boost protein content.
It is not known where in the supply chain the chemical was added to the milk. Experts have expressed skepticism that so many farmers would know to add melamine to milk as the chemical is not water-soluble and must be mixed with formaldehyde or another chemical before it can be dissolved in milk.
The Yangjiazhai farmers say the collection center once supplied seven tons of milk a day to Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group Co., one of the major dairy companies that sold tainted milk powder and infant formula.
Operations ceased after Hu Shumin, the owner of the collection center, was arrested for allegedly selling four packets of the chemical melamine to a cow breeder for mixing into milk, but it was not clear if Hu was accused of using the chemical at his own collection center.
"It is the small farmers like us who helped make Sanlu the big company that it is. But now if Sanlu falls, who will help us?" said another local dairy farmer, also surnamed Yang.
Under the early morning's blanket of fog, Ma Junxi blew a shrill whistle as he pushed his bicycle along the main street of Hebei's Nanniu village, a blue plastic pail of milk strapped on one side of the bicycle.
He scooped out the milk and funneled it into containers, selling small batches at a discount.
"I would rather sell it to the villagers cheaper, at least I can earn something."
Around the corner, farmer Zhang Yisuo heaved baskets of shredded cornstalk into a concrete trough for his 12 cows. He said he paid $30 a day to feed the cows and that he had not sold any milk in five days.
"I'm preparing to sell my cows," Zhang said. "I can't get by like this and who knows how long this will go on?"
By GILLIAN WONG,Associated Press Writer <cite class="auth">AP - 2 hours 40 minutes ago</cite>
YANGJIAZHAI, China - Yang Lianying frowned at the large steel tank that he and other Chinese dairy farmers in his village filled earlier in the day with milk from their cows. Bending down, he turned a red valve at the base of the container, releasing the cool, white liquid in a gush onto the concrete floor.
Amid a scandal over tainted milk that has ground China's dairy industry to a halt, farmers like Yang are being forced to toss out fresh milk and are being squeezed by feed costs they can't recoup.
"Nobody wants our milk right now," Yang said as he hosed and swept his income out the shed's back door.
Farmers like Yang, who lives in north China's Hebei province, are part of an industry that has lost public trust after tons of infant formula and other milk products were found to be contaminated with melamine, a chemical used in plastics and fertilizers, sickening more than 6,200 children and leaving four dead.
About a dozen local dairy farmers the Associated Press spoke to in Hebei complained they are not the ones responsible for the scandal that is costing them their livlihood.
Lacking buyers, the farmers are now forced to dump freshly pumped milk or peddle it to nearby villagers. And as uncertainties grow over the scale of the crisis, others say they plan to sell their cows before further losses mount.
Investigators say some raw milk suppliers, in hopes of clearing more profit, may have watered down their milk to increase volume and then added the industrial chemical melamine, which is high in nitrogen and artificially appears to boost protein content.
It is not known where in the supply chain the chemical was added to the milk. Experts have expressed skepticism that so many farmers would know to add melamine to milk as the chemical is not water-soluble and must be mixed with formaldehyde or another chemical before it can be dissolved in milk.
The Yangjiazhai farmers say the collection center once supplied seven tons of milk a day to Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group Co., one of the major dairy companies that sold tainted milk powder and infant formula.
Operations ceased after Hu Shumin, the owner of the collection center, was arrested for allegedly selling four packets of the chemical melamine to a cow breeder for mixing into milk, but it was not clear if Hu was accused of using the chemical at his own collection center.
"It is the small farmers like us who helped make Sanlu the big company that it is. But now if Sanlu falls, who will help us?" said another local dairy farmer, also surnamed Yang.
Under the early morning's blanket of fog, Ma Junxi blew a shrill whistle as he pushed his bicycle along the main street of Hebei's Nanniu village, a blue plastic pail of milk strapped on one side of the bicycle.
He scooped out the milk and funneled it into containers, selling small batches at a discount.
"I would rather sell it to the villagers cheaper, at least I can earn something."
Around the corner, farmer Zhang Yisuo heaved baskets of shredded cornstalk into a concrete trough for his 12 cows. He said he paid $30 a day to feed the cows and that he had not sold any milk in five days.
"I'm preparing to sell my cows," Zhang said. "I can't get by like this and who knows how long this will go on?"
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