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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."

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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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