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Chinese Children Making it Cheaper

" .... in August 2006 a group of 86 child workers as young as 12 were organized by their high school teacher to work 10-15 hours a day at a fruit-processing factory in Ningbo city. This was no small, dingy domestic factory but a model state-owned factory (longtou qiye). Once discovered, the factory was fined 110,000 RMB. The children were not compensated, but were simply sent home with their 650 RMB wages for their month of work. Their teacher disappeared before she could be charged. In 2007 Hong Kong labour activists found over 200 student workers under 16 years of age working at Yonghong Electronics, a supplier factory for US computer giant Dell Inc."

Link

Would you allow your child to work 60 hours a week as a low paid slave? So why buy products made by slaves?

Chinese Violate more Policies ....

This child was not at an Apple Plant ... but she was required by Chinese school officials to make fireworks in her school ... 42 children died in the resulting fire ..many injured. KH

" In March 2001, 42 people, most of them third and fourth-graders, were killed in an explosion at a school. The school blow up because the Chinese use young students to make fireworks in order to keep the price lower than their competitors. The younger students are required to assemble at least 1,000 fireworks a day while the older children, fifth-graders, are required to make ten times that many ...." Link

And MORE

Are you still buying food ...

MADE IN CHINA?!

And then 2010!

"Chinese authorities have closed two dairies in the northern region of Ningxia following the discovery of a further 170 tonnes of melamine tainted milk powder, according to media reports.

The latest case adds to the growing number of discoveries in recent weeks of products tainted with the toxic chemical that were repackaged for sale and put back on the market in China instead of being destroyed after the 2008 melamine scandal, whereby milk powder laced with melamine killed six children and sickened an estimated 300,000. " Link

Where is your shrimp from?

The waters of many fish farms are considered unsafe even for people to touch. Link

"Our waters here are filthy," said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant ponds in western Fuqing. "There are simply too many aquaculture farms in this area. They're all discharging water here, fouling up other farms."

1. toxic vegetables .... 9,610 kg of vegetables were found having excessive residues of three pesticides (one plant)3.5 tonnes of Hainan cow peas found were tainted with a poisonous pesticide.

   2. about half of the disposable dishware used in China are unsafe, with excessive amounts of chemicals that can cause cancer. (takeout boxes)

   3. Gas poisoning strikes 55 in south China food plant

    4. 25,100 tonnes of defective milk powder seized in the 2008 toxic baby food probe had been incinerated and buried

APPLE USES CHILD LABOR

As often reported at the herrickreport.com China and their foreign associates are using underage workers ... child slaves

Last Year: Death of a Child Laboror at a Disney Plant in China

Technology giant Apple has admitted that child labour has been employed at some of the factories that build its iPods, computers and mobile phones.

An audit found that at least eleven 15-year-old children were found to be working in three factories that supply Apple in the last year." Link

Foxconn runs a number of super-factories in the south of China, some of which employ as many as 300,000 workers and form self-contained cities, complete with banks, post offices and basketball courts.

It has been accused, however, of treating its employees extremely harshly. China Labor Watch, a New York-based NGO, accused Foxconn of having an "inhumane and militant" management, which neglects basic human rights. Foxconn's management were not available for comment." Link

Apple Audit report .pdf

"Live China Free"

"# The fear and stigma associated with Chinese sheetrock, also known as toxic drywall, make it hard to sell a home, insure a home, and refinance a home.
# The bulk of the material was imported between 2001 and 2008, but some reports seem to indicated that Chinese drywall problems have shown up in homes built as early as 1997."Link

ed. note ... Chinese Drywall was reported on the site a year ago and it is reported as unsafe!

Canadian Wants China's One Child Policy

One World Planetary Law to force One Child Policy just like our banker China!

Chinese policy of forced sterilization and baby murder is "smart policy"

The Chinese Communist Economic Bubble

A Study: Macro-Economics and the Communist Command Economy

CHINA

But don't confuse fast growth with sustainable growth. Much of China's growth over the past decade has come from lending to the United States. The country suffers from real overcapacity. And now growth comes from borrowing -- and hundreds of billion-dollar decisions made on the fly don't inspire a lot of confidence. For example, a nearly completed, 13-story building in Shanghai collapsed in June due to the poor quality of its construction." Link

CHINA SELLS ITS CHILDREN

"An investigation by the state-owned Southern Metropolis News found that about 80 girls in one county had been sold for $3,000 (£1,800) to foreigners.

The babies were taken when the parents could not pay the steep fines imposed for having too many children.

Local officials may have forged papers to complete the deals,

Chinese Condoms put Alabama Factory out of Business

"U.S. Agency for International Development, which has distributed an estimated 10 billion U.S.-made AIDS-preventing condoms in poor countries around the world.

But not anymore.

In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China."

Another Dangerous Chinese Product!

"My biggest fear is we'll be stuck with a house we can't sell," said Marty Smith, whose air conditioner in his home near Tampa has had repeated problems. His builder, Lennar Corp., recently tested the air and drywall in his house and expects the results in a few weeks. WSJ-story

Update ....... Lennar, confirmed that tainted Chinese-made drywall in Scott's and four adjacent town homes on Hillview Lane emitted sulfuric fumes that corroded the unit's coils and raised an occasional stink.

"We would notice odors in the upstairs bathroom," Scott said. "The humidity brings out the sulphur in the walls."

Tainted Chinese Drywall   for more information ChineseDrywall.com

Live China Free ........ an archive of the herrickreport.com

AMERICAN'S CHINESE CHRISTMAS

Brought to you by the slaves of China .... Ten to 12 to 15-hour shifts, seven days a week are the norm during the long, eight-month busy season. Workers can go for months without a single day off. At a minimum, workers are at the factory an average of 84 hours a week, while toiling 77 hours. However, at least half the workers, some 4,000 people, are routinely at the factory 105 hours a week and working 95 hours, including 55 hours of overtime, which exceeds China's legal limit by 562 percent. Any working daring to take a Sunday off will be docked 2 ½ days' wages as punishment." the slaves of China .

National Labor Committee

Strangely the cough medicine from China that killed 400+ in Panama is now a teething drug in Africa killing again!! "Panamanian-made medications, primarily for allergies and coughs, which used ingredients imported from China and Spain.
Judicial authorities are examining a total of 705 cases -- 471 of whom died and 234 who were afflicted in some way -- and determined that most had consumed contaminated cough syrup."

"Nigerian medical authorities are flying in 100 doses of an antidote to try and stem the deaths of babies poisoned by a contaminated teething syrup.

The number of children who have died from kidney failure after being given the tainted paracetamol-based remedy called "My Pikin" has risen to 34. "

EU Bans Imports of Soy from China in New Melamine Scare

The executive branch of the EU, the European Commission, said in a statement Wednesday that they "will take measures to ban the import from China of food for infants and young children containing soya and soya products, after high levels of melamine were recently found in Chinese soybean meal."

The measures include a complete ban on children's food containing soya, and compulsory testing on all other soy-related foods and on shipments of baking powder (ammonium bicarbonate), New Melamine Scare

U.S. bans melamine-tainted Chinese dairy products

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States issued an import alert for Chinese-made food products on Thursday, calling for foods to be stopped at the border unless importers can certify they are either free of dairy or free of melamine.

Two top U.S. health officials announced they will go to China next week to open food inspection offices and talk about food safety after a series of health scares from Chinese-made food products." Link

"China emerged in the 1990s as a low-cost exporter of food products such as vegetables, apples, seafood, and poultry. But in recent years, China’s exports slowed when shipments of vegetables, poultry, and shrimp were rejected for failing to meet stringent
standards in Japan, Europe, and other countries, revealing a gap between Chinese and international food safety standards. Problems with food contamination within China have made food safety a top concern of Chinese consumers as well" Amber Waves .... USDA

CHINA Dumping Milk as Demand Crumbles

"BEIJING, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Agriculture said Saturday it had made an emergency rescue plan with the Ministry of Finance to give special subsidies to the country's dairy farmers, who have suffered from shrinking demand after the tainted milk scandal.

Fewer dairy farmers were dumping raw milk as government support policies to shield them from losses paid off, said the ministry in a statement on its website.

Some dairy farmers started to dump raw milk because of decreased demand as customers lost confidence in local dairy brands after the scandal erupted last month."

China's new slave empire

"Out of desperation, much of the continent is selling itself into a new era of corruption and virtual slavery as China seeks to buy up all the metals, minerals and oil she can lay her hands on: copper for electric and telephone cables, cobalt for mobile phones and jet engines - the basic raw materials of modern life.

It is crude rapacity, but to Africans and many of their leaders it is better than the alternative, which is slow starvation."

Chinese police find child slaves

"The BBC's Dan Griffiths, in Beijing, says the latest incident highlights the dark side of China's economic miracle, and according to unconfirmed media reports there may be more than 1,000 child labourers in at least one city in southern China."

more from China Daily

"The Chinese Ministry of Labor admitted that the child labor situation was very serious throughout the country. It stated that exploiting child laborers has become a common occurrence. In some coastal areas and particular economic zones, such as Fujian and Guangdong, as well as Zhejiang, Sichuan, and Hubei, there are reported to be approximately four to five million-child laborers under the age of 16. Child laborers under 12 years of age are also found in Whenzhou and in some areas of Guangdong and Hainan. The children usually work 10 to 14 hours a day with half the wages of an adult." Link

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Chinese Human Rights Violations

State Department Report

What a Great Country!!

try leaving !!

Video of Chinese Troops Killing Unarmed Escaping Civilians .... Video

"Tibetans continued to encounter substantial difficulties and obstacles in traveling to India for religious, educational, and other purposes. The government placed restrictions on the movement of Tibetans during sensitive anniversaries and events and increased controls over border areas at these times. There were reports of arbitrary detention of persons, particularly monks, returning from Nepal. Detentions generally lasted for several months, although in most cases no formal charges were brought.

Border guards continued to use force to prevent unauthorized border crossings. On October 18, PAP border guards reportedly shot at 46 Tibetans attempting to enter Nepal at the Nangpa La pass. In September 2006 Chinese border forces at the Nangpa La pass shot at a group of approximately 70 Tibetans attempting to enter Nepal, killing one and injuring others. The group included monks, nuns, and children." State Department Report

"Some ignorant monks in Lhasa abetted by a small handful of people did some illegal things that can challenge the social stability." China Responds to protest against the Olympics

Chinese Unemployment of ..... 23% or 300 Million Without Real Jobs

"The official long-term policy is for as many as 800 million people to migrate to the cities from the virtually stagnant rural areas where subsistence agriculture does not support them and is an impediment through land dispersion to a reform of agriculture.

Some foreign academics working with Chinese officials came up with a guesstimate of 15 percent of the urban population as currently unemployed. The Rand Corporation (Rand Report) factored included those in the countryside who effectively have nothing to do and came up with a figure of 23 percent of the workforce being without a job. " Or 300,000,000 People without jobs!

Herrickreport.com asks ... what do you do with 300 Million unemployed and then have a recession that may add millions more.... if the past explains the future the Russians should be warily of the Chinese and the Russian Eastern Siberian Provinces.

"Research by RAND indicates that when proper allowance is made for "disguised" rural unemployment as well as "unregistered" urban unemployment, China's actual unemployment rate soars to an estimated 23% of the total labor force. (The term "disguised" unemployment refers to labor that is reported as nominally employed, but in fact does not add to output -- in the U.S. labor market, "featherbedding" is a nearly-equivalent term)." (Rand Report)

China's mines are considered the most dangerous in the world. More than 4700 workers were killed last year, according to official figures, although independent labour groups put deaths at up to 20,000 annually.

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

750,000 a year killed by Chinese Pollution

"The Financial Times said the (World) Bank report, entitled 'Cost of Pollution in China', found up to 760,000 people die prematurely each year in China because of air and water pollution. Financial Times Report

High levels of air pollution in China's cities leads to 350,000-400,000 premature deaths, it said. Another 300,000 die because of poor-quality air indoors." BBC

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

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 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

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

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! Kent Herrick

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."

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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

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!)

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"

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

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

Pet Food Recall .... FDA   Index of Pet Food Recalls and Reports

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

The Herrickreport.com is trying to be fair; if you have information that is pro-or-con about any Chinese Product please submit. We have taken information from the net and it can be questionable at times but we assume after our investigation that it is accurate.

Kent M. Herrick, Editor in Chief, 2010

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