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CHINA
TO SUE MATTEL!! for LIBEL!!
BEIJING (AFP) -- A Chinese
province is likely to join a planned libel suit
against US giant Mattel, accusing the toy maker
of harming the region's reputation, state press
said Tuesday.
The government of Guangdong
province is considering the suit after Mattel
issued a safety recall on more than 21 million
Chinese-made toys this summer, but later
apologised saying 85 percent of the recall was
due to its own design flaws, the China Daily
said.
"The incident has stained
the reputation of Chinese toy manufacturers and
made a large number of toy factories in Guangdong
lose a great deal of money," it quoted Chen
Lipeng, director of the province's fair trade
bureau, as saying.
"A simple apology cannot
compensate for the losses."
"Live China
Free"
Holiday orders to L.A.'s Toy District are slumping
because of fears of Chinese-made goods. Regulators should restore
consumers' faith by bolstering safety standards for imports and
holding manufacture ...."
Link
China ... again.. " ...
lead is still so common that researchers say up
to one-fifth of Chinese children tested had
unsafe levels in their blood."
More B.S. from China
"The quality of Chinese-made toys with
American brands should be the responsibility of
the American brand owner, not the Chinese
manufacturer,"
State Food and Drug
Administration
Chinese State
Council
Food Issues top Agenda ...
Talks with China
"When we set this up last September
.... I don't think anyone of us at that time saw product
safety, food safety, the whole integrity of trade as being the key
issue that it is today," he said on CNBC Television.
Nonetheless, "I would think that would be the top agenda item
that we have" next week, he added. The discovery of tainted
food items and dangerous children's toys imported from China
fanned U.S. consumer anger earlier this year. Link
Great Poll
In a Harris Pool " Forty-five percent said
they will avoid buying toys made in
China. "It doesn't stop at toys --
this negative attitude extends to all products manufactured in
China," according to the Harris Poll, "with
nearly half of all Americans saying they will avoid buying Chinese
manufactured products this holiday season."
Link
CHINA
TO SUE MATTEL!! .... for LIBEL!!
BEIJING (AFP) — A Chinese province is likely to join a planned
libel suit against US giant Mattel, accusing the toy maker of harming
the region's reputation, state press said Tuesday.
The government of Guangdong province is considering the suit after
Mattel issued a safety recall on more than 21 million Chinese-made toys
this summer, but later apologised saying 85 percent of the recall was
due to its own design flaws, the China Daily said.
"The incident has stained the reputation of Chinese toy
manufacturers and made a large number of toy factories in Guangdong lose
a great deal of money," it quoted Chen Lipeng, director of the
province's fair trade bureau, as saying.
"A simple apology cannot compensate for the losses."
and
"LOS ANGELES (AFP) — California on Monday launched a lawsuit
against 20 companiesaccusing them of manufacturing or selling toys with
illegal quantities of lead, a statement said.
Link
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said the firms -- including
Mattel Inc and Toys "R" Us -- were being sued for knowingly
exposing children to potentially dangerous lead levels."
Chinese on
the Bush/Dalai Lama Award
"For the US Congress to take this action
and the US leader to meet with the Dalai Lama is a severe
violation of the norms of international relations," Chinese
foreign minister Yang Jiechi
"We express our extreme dissatisfaction and strong
opposition. We urge the US side to cancel these
activities."
Answer ..... No!
"The Dalai Lama is hailed in much of the
world as a figure of moral authority, but Beijing reviles the
1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and claims he seeks to destroy
China's sovereignty by pushing for independence for Tibet, where
the Dalai Lama is considered a god-king." Link
So called Tibetan Leader ...
Tibet's Communist Party Secretary of Tibet, Zhang Qingli,
"We are furious," "If the
Dalai Lama can receive such an award, there must be no justice or
good people in the world." Chinese Crap
774 Arrested
for Shoddy Dangerous Goods
"The Chinese Government has arrested 774
people in the past two months as part of a crackdown on the
production and sale of tainted food, drugs and agricultural
products."
Link
"The crisis spurred calls worldwide for
more stringent food safety inspection rules and toy safety
regulations. It also prompted some consumers to begin avoiding
Chinese-made goods and led to calls in Congress for a ban on
some Chinese imports."
Chinese Claim
80% Food Certification!
Now you guess
which 20% not to eat!!
"BEIJING, Oct. 18 -- China has established new schemes
to improve quality supervision of food products. That's
according to Li Changjiang, the Director of the General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine.
He spoke at
a press conference on the sidelines of the Party Congress.
Li Changjiang said the recent
four-month campaign to improve food safety has achieved good
results. Around 80 percent of food manufacturers across the
country have been certified."
Link
From the
archives of the Herrickreport.com
Levi-Strauss
moves all
of it's plants overseas... China and other places.
the hell with
American Workers.... the Hell with Levis
"We're still an American brand, but we're
also a brand and a company whose products have been adopted by
consumers around the world," .... "We have
to operate as a global company." oh well American
in what way?
Mayor of Palm Bay Florida wants to
be CHINA FREE!
Mayor John Mazziotti said. "There is no free trade anymore. Good
manufacturing jobs we want here are all gone to China,"
" Last month, he recommended another ordinance that would prohibit
the city from purchasing goods from China in the wake of numerous
recalls of Chinese-made products because of safety concerns." Link
Another
Mattel toy Recall .... October 25, 2007
"BRUSSELS
-(Dow Jones)- U.S. toy maker
Mattel Inc.
(MAT) said Thursday that it has recalled an additional 55,500 "
Go Diego Go
" toys from the U.S.,
Canada
, the U.K. and
Ireland
, due to high levels of lead in the toys' paint."
A Chinese
Population Equal to the USA has No Safe Drinking Water!
"Nearly 312 million rural Chinese residents
have no access to safe drinking water, facing problems of
shortage as well as severe contamination. These rural
populations, typically the most disadvantaged groups in China,
suffer frequent and serious health attacks as a result of
drinking unsafe water. The threats come from both naturally
occurring contaminants such as arsenic, fluorine, and salt as
well organic and industrial pollution caused by human
activities." Link
.... I think it's worse ... Chinese officials
won't drink it!
Your Cosmetics might come from
executed convicts!!
"A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the
corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in
Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.
Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing
collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners
after they have been shot. The agents say some of the company's products
have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned
convicts is "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big
fuss about".
Link
China Poisoning a
More Few People
"You know, 40 million toys may be bad for
dozens of toy makers in Dongguan," said Dong Tao, an
economist at Credit Suisse, referring to a city in southern China.
"But that's small potatoes for China's over $1 trillion a
year of exports."
So what!!
US recalls 635,000 more Chinese-made products
"More than 555,000 of the products in the voluntary recalls
contain excessive levels of lead, while 82,000 baby rattles sold by
Target are recalled because they can break open and release beads that
pose a choking hazard, the commission said.
The products with excessive levels of lead include 192,000 keychains
and and 63,000 Halloween tumblers sold by Dollar General Merchandising
Inc., 150,000 bookmarks from Antioch Publishing, 79,000 "Pirates of
the Caribbean" squeeze lights from Eveready Battery Co., and 35,000
toy blocks from Kids II Inc.
Too much lead was also found in 15,000 toy decorating sets from Toys
"R" Us, 11,200 water bottles from Sports Authority, and 10,000
wooden toys sold by KB Toys." more
CHILD FORCED LABOR PRODUCES EXPORTS
TO THE USA
Why do we buy such products? ..... By buying these
goods we are exploiting children! We would not allow it here ....
but we consider it an internal Chinese problem not ours and besides ...
they are just Chinese Children ... What Racism! KMH
"Even more noteworthy is the fact that - compared
to adult workers - child workers tend to be more docile and
compliant, submit more readily to their employers’ arbitrary extension
of work hours and do not demand overtime pay. Moreover, because hiring
child workers is illegal, employers can avoid paying various
legally-mandated social security fees on their behalf, making the cost
of employing child labour even lower. In addition, some of the
physiological characteristics of child workers meet employers’
specific needs in terms of production and management.
For example, their fingers are nimble, their eyesight is good, and, in
some types of work, they can be more productive than adults."
From the
China-Labor Organization Research.
FDA
on Chinese Fish Products ... urp!
China Speaks.... "Apart from the
mounting protectionism and prejudice against China, we have to admit that
the credibility crisis encountered by Made-in-China products is also
the result of some Chinese enterprises caring about nothing as much as
profiteering, and by some local governments that try to shield the
wrong-doing enterprises, perhaps because they generate a large share of
local revenues." Link
European Union ...
"EU toy safety rules will be revised by the end of
the year, the European Commission said Tuesday, responding to concerns
sparked by three high-profile recalls of Chinese-made toys by a U.S.
company this year.
The new rules will update EU guidelines set in 1988 and target toxic
substances and any components that might harm children" Link
A List
of Western Boot Manufacturers but realize that even if they say ...
XYZ San Antonio Texas they may still be made in China.
Chinese Unemployment.
Despite serious rural unemployment and vague
figures for urban areas is masked by the continuing boom in the
Chinese economy. "Considering a pool of 150 million
surplus workers in the countryside, the job market in China
is still "complicated and grave," Link
Why is this important? Because the Red Army
draws from that vast pool of the unemployed and there is a giant
surplus of males to females. This combination in China has
always led to war and one assumes history will repeat.
China
... " ... lead is
still so common that researchers say up to one-fifth of Chinese
children tested had unsafe levels in their blood."
More B.S.
from China "The quality of Chinese-made toys with
American brands should be the responsibility of the American
brand owner, not the Chinese manufacturer,"
State
Food and Drug Administration
Chinese
State Council
"The execution of Zheng
Xiaoyu, the former head of China's State Food and
Drug Administration (SFDA) who was convicted of taking bribes to
approve drugs, was a decisive move by Beijing."
Link
BUT WHY WAS IT?
... Who was supposed to receive the message? Some
think it was the Chinese; that is to say get your Ministries in
order or get a bullet. But I think it was a public relations
stunt and little more. The rest of the world was supposed to see
how serious the Chinese are about product safety ....
"why they shot this minister!" But they
shoot people everyday for less; no I think he was shot to make
you feel better about Chinese products. "wow they must
be a lot safer because they shot this high ranking dude. .... so
I should really feel better." ..... well do you? I
don't. Few people in China act without orders from above and the
higher up you are the more you get orders until you arrive at
the top. I blame the top.... Live China Free!
Lead Paint is a huge issue and
was not an accidental nor a mistaken production error. The
large number of "
lead paint recalls" from many Chinese companies can not
be an "opps I'm we screwed up". The Chinese are well
aware of the dangers of lead paint and this can only be a
intentional .... lead adds brightness to colors; durability,
flexibility (and yep Cheap!) to the paint. Ben
Franklin knew it ... letter
he wrote .... SO ... we know why; I repeat ...CHEAP...
but why chance the loss of the American markets? Because they
are buying politicians now and a presidency in the past. They do
not expect to be really punished. So we can bitch and moan
and protect our children and buy higher priced .... and safer
toys and children's furniture, beds and accessories from
other sources .. or just let them "Eat Paint"
..... Read
the National Safety Council on lead and children then
decide. KH
Did you know? Now you
do....!
Melamine
is an additive that the Chinese have added to their products
to boost a fraudulent level of protein. They are trying to
sell a product which is dangerous and lying about the content
of proteins in it.
"Melamine is an industrial chemical found
in plastics. The US found that the chemical had been fraudulently
added to wheat gluten and rice protein from China. The
country has now banned its exporters from using the chemical as
an additive to boost protein levels in feeds."
Link
"In the US, the FDA last week issued an
import alert guidance, which singled out a number of wheat,
rice, corn, soy and mung bean imports
from China for regulatory attention.
The alert gave border control authorities the power to detain
imports without first having to inspect them."
A Free Ad for an American
Jeans Maker
Gusset
Clothing Company

Read a note from the Co-Founder of Gusset
Clothing Company
China
Blames Mattel
"If you give a high price for purchasing,
the factories will use high quality raw materials to produce.
But if the price is low, they can only use inferior raw
materials," Li said. Link
On Tuesday, China's ambassador to the United States defended the
quality of Chinese products and blamed the press for
"churning up agitating stories."
It is the critics
who are at fault not the crappy producers and besides if you
want crap we will make it and sell .... well that's exactly what
he says! KH
In a Story in the Washington Post in May
.... " 20,000,000 American chickens may have consumed adulterated
Chinese feed.
"About 20 million chickens being raised for human
consumption in several states ate feed made with melamine-tainted pet
food and are being held from market to keep them from entering the food
supply, Agriculture Department officials said" Link
With Hillary Clinton on the Board of Wal-Mart ...
they lead the world in a race to the bottom "There is no
question that the chain is helping accelerate the loss of American jobs
to low-wage countries such as China. Wal-Mart, which in the late 1980s
and early 1990s trumpeted its claim to 'Buy American,' has doubled its
imports from China in the past five years alone ..." Link
Chinese Authorities .... say .. "Li also hit
out at foreign companies exploiting China's cheap production costs and
warned that they risk getting shoddy products if they demand too low a
price from Chinese manufacturers.
"If you give a high price for purchasing, the factories will use
high quality raw materials to produce. But if the price is low, they
can only use inferior raw materials," (So if our price is
cheap ... we will send you shoddy, dangerous crap!)
"The main "business" of the women's
section of the Masanjia Labor Camp is textile
production. Not only are the detainees not paid, but also their work
hours and workloads are pushed to the limit to "boost productivity
and profits."
" over a thousand school- aged children have been working as
slaves in brick factories in China's
Shanxi province. The conditions described are atrocious:
children as young as 8 hauling bricks for over ten
hours a day and facing regular beatings." Link
"One of the twelve currently on trial, Wang Bingbing, was a boss
at the Kiln factory. Wang happens to be the son of the secretary of a
local branch of China's ruling Communist Party." The
Party knows best !!!
And What do the Chinese say:
"I dare not eat farmed fish or meat because most are fed with
growth pills or pumped with bad additives. I worry about vegetables in
case they are tainted with pesticide. I even think twice about the water
I drink because it might contain heavy metals." ..........
"I think foreign food is less risky. Even though they are
not as fresh, I trust products from the US, Europe and Japan because
those countries protect their environments. Sometimes when I see
foreigners blithely eating raw lettuce in Chinese restaurants, I worry
for them." Link
Chinese
Condoms "ineffective".... recalled from Washington D.C.
Project
"Tens
of thousands of condoms provided free by the District to curb HIV-AIDS
have been returned to the health department because of complaints that
their paper packaging is easily damaged and could render the condoms
ineffective." Link
But
who is watching the exports in China
" ..... the
exceedingly high levels of pesticide residues in Chinese food products
may pose significant problems for international sales, especially in
Europe, Japan and the U.S., where food safety standards are more
stringent and more strictly enforced."
Link
"China's
contamination problems stem in large part from its loose regulations and
highly fragmented food production. Hundreds of millions of small farmers
grow its food, and they rely heavily on chemicals to coax production
out of intensively cultivated soils and to fight pests.
The result: "China
has one of the world's highest rates of chemical fertilizer use per
hectare, and Chinese farmers use many highly toxic pesticides,
including some that are banned in the United States," according to a
report published last November by the economic-research service of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture." Link
Chinese made Coca-Cola Themed glasses ... Link
"Aloha Breeze" Portable Electric Heaters
281,000 Heaters recalled Sold at: Wal-Mart
stores nationwide from July 2005 to July 2007 for about $15.
Link
Did you buy the unsafe
Chinese Tires ...
The recalled tires were made by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber
Co. Ltd. in China and distributed in the U.S. under several names,
including Westlake, YKS and Compass. The tires were sold from 2004 to 2006
for light trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans.
KRAFT FOOD ...
"If a product (or component of a product) is manufactured in a country other than the United States, the packaging will reflect this information. The label will state:
Product of .... .... If no statement is made about production in a foreign country, the entire product was made in the US"
More letter .... here
Where does your Vitamin C come
from?
"Four Chinese producers now supply
the majority of the global demand for this vitamin, selling at prices
well below the numbers that are feasible for DSM
and the other remaining European vitamin maker, BASF." 2005 After
reading this entry I'm sure your Vitamin C and most of the rest of them
come from ....CHINA! Link
From Canada more uh-oh news...
"...manufacturers can proudly display a Product of Canada label
as long as they incur 51 per cent of manufacturing costs inside the
country, no matter where the ingredients come from."
Link
"Take Europe's Best
asparagus as an example. It's actually from China, which experts say is
ridden with unscrupulous producers who deliberately contaminate some food
exports."
Say it isn't so .... Peanuts
from China!
"There's a lot of talk that because China is growing and their
demand is growing, that they will actually stop exporting peanuts and
might even begin importing. However, their crop this year is up by 10
percent, and 10 percent of a 14-million metric ton crop is the size of
the entire U.S. crop. I doubt anyone knows how much China is
exporting."
Link
But New Varieties from Australia! ....Link
Shoddy Breasts or really Large Bee ...
A woman in Taiwan Province lost the fullness of her bosom after a
bee stung her artificially-enlarged breasts and broke the saline
filled breast implant.
Link
The woman, who went in for breast-enlargement surgery three years
ago, was stung recently when she passed by a field. Two days later,
she was shocked to find that her right breast had flattened out.
Doctors told her that the salt-water bag embedded in her breast had
broken and all the water had leaked out.
Sportsman's Warehouse
Recalls Flashlights; Counterfeit Batteries ... China!
Hazard: The batteries packaged with the recalled flashlights are
labeled as "Panasonic CR123A Industrial Lithium" and have been
determined by Panasonic to be counterfeit. The counterfeit batteries can
overheat and rupture, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers.
Outdoor
Recalls ......... CPSC.
Infant/Child
Recalls (Not including toys)
SpongeBob SquarePants tm ................. Lead!
Children's Charm Bracelets Sold by Buy-Rite .... Lead
Editorial ....
"Here in the USA it isn't so much a boycott but a change in the culture of buying the cheapest ... junk ... made. We should support our own
workers first; those that produce with the best quality and safety. Then if there is any thing left to buy outside our respective borders we should only support companies that test for product safety."
KH... Live China Free
Reform through Labor ... Slave Labor
"The Laogai Research Foundation, a
non-governmental organization (NGO) in the United States, estimates
that there are almost 1,100 labor institutions in the Laogai
system with an estimated 6.8 million inmates." Link
Where cheap products can be made cheaper!! Buy
from a Laogai! (sarcasm!)
"CHENGDU, China: A highly infectious
swine virus is sweeping China's pig population, driving up pork prices and
creating fears of a global pandemic among
domesticated pigs.
So far, the mysterious virus -- believed to cause an
unusually deadly form of an infection known as blue-ear pig disease -- has spread to 25 of this country's 33 provinces and regions, prompting a
pork shortage and the strongest inflation in
China in a decade. Link
and from Chinese Sources .... "Blue-ear
pig disease has been brought under "preliminary control"
through vaccinations and
mass culls of infected pigs, ... " Assuming
this is accurate .... "Xue said by Aug. 22, China had administered
314 million milliliters of vaccine to immunize more than 100 million
pigs. By then, the disease had infected 257,000 pigs in 26 Chinese
provinces, of which 68,000 died and 175,000 were destroyed." Link
Buy American Pork Products- Pork
Pork Pork-China China China
Mercury Found in Chinese Cosmetics in Indonesia!
"The Chinese ban followed claims in Beijing that quarantine
inspectors had found mercury, cadmium and the banned drug nitrofural in
recent shipments. Link
The ban came two days after Indonesia had said some cosmetics
imported from China contained mercury, and the same day that the
Indonesian toy manufacturers’ association claimed 80 per cent of toys
imported from China contained toxic substances." Can you say "World
wide trade ban on China!"
From 2005 .... New York City "use
of mercury in cosmetics"
The EU reported in it's 2006 report..... CHINA
#1 country for unsafe products! By Products! China-440;
Unknown 159, Germany 42, Italy 38, USA 27 .... down to Bangladesh 1
See
the full report
Now it's blankets! "Blankets
made in China are being withdrawn from the marketplace in Australia and
New Zealand after tests showed they contained high levels of formaldehyde,
"
Link "Chinese government officials have
pledged to tighten safety inspections but noted that Chinese goods were
being unfairly targeted as a means of trade protectionism."
(It's ok we are an emerging nation buy our crap!!)
In a Corrected story ... The Word "used" was removed from
"recycled
used chopsticks" .... "BEIJING
(Reuters) - A Beijing factory sold up to 100,000 pairs of disposable
chopsticks a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on
Wednesday, the latest in a string of food and product safety scares."
Link (Which is true .... Dirty used ... or just dirty ...) and
really what's the difference .... more dirt!)
BEIJING (AP) - China has launched a new campaign to restore
international trust in its products with a weeklong television
series defending the country's safety standards.
But! As in
all China stories, first hammer the critics .... " Personally, I
believe it is new trend in trade protectionism.
Although recalls are necessary, it is unfair to decide that all products
made in China are unqualified," Li Changjiang, director of the
General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine, .... (Is he expecting to get shot
too?!)
..... Full Story
Chinese Sources: White
Paper on Food Quality and Safety and
from the EU .... " will give firm backing to European companies
having to reject goods that are dangerous to consumers, including young
children." Link
More on Poison Clothes ...
"The (NZ) Ministry of Consumer Affairs yesterday ordered
independent testing be carried out on a variety of imported adults' and
children's clothing, from several countries, to see if they posed any
health risk.
Many New Zealand-made clothing products are made from imported fabrics,
with the majority of that fabric coming from China." Link
NOT MADE IN CHINA
Ok
so you don't want Chinese then where do you go.... try "Not
Made in China" they have a huge list of products that are
China-Free!
Poison pajamas --- "The (New
Zealand) government ordered the probe after scientists hired by a
consumer watchdog programme discovered formaldehyde in Chinese
clothes at levels of up to 900 times regarded as safe.
Manufacturers sometimes apply formaldehyde to clothes to prevent mildew.
It can cause skin rashes, irritation to the eyes and throat and allergic
reactions." FT
Heroes!! .... Family tries to
go year China-Free
Sara Bongiorni , of Baton Rouge, La., her family
boycotted Chinese products and learned a great deal about the Chinese
Empire's vast hold on the American Family.
Read
the Chicago Tribune's Special ...
Dutch
Company Recalls Chinese Mattresses
Aug
17, 7:22 PM (ET)
"THE
HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A chain of
Dutch bed stores said Friday it is recalling more than 1,300
Chinese-made foam mattresses amid fears they were sprayed with toxic
insecticide.
Beter Bed Holding announced the recall after tests on a shipping
container holding more than 700 mattresses found they contained
poison, possibly as a result of being sprayed to kill insects in
wooden packaging. " Link
Pet
Food Recall .... FDA Index of Pet Food Recalls and Reports
MORE CHINESE MADE TOYS
RECALLED!!
Mattel
Mattel
Inc. is close to announcing its second big recall of Chinese-made
toys in as many weeks, according to people familiar with the matter,
expanding a mounting crisis for the toy maker that could grow even
more problematic as the holiday shopping season approaches. Link
REPEATING
Chinese Products are Unsafe
CNN
"BEIJING, China (AP) China has closed
180 food factories after inspectors found industrial chemicals being
used in products from candy to seafood, state media said Wednesday.
The closures came amid a nationwide crackdown on shoddy
and dangerous products launched in December that also uncovered use
of recycled or expired food, the China Daily said."
FDA
Recalls
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please submit. We have taken
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