I guess the question I have is how long will our government keep allowing anybody and everybody to import everything of unknown health risk from China-- just cause its CHEAP..... :???:
What will it take? An unknown # of pets already died or sickened-- how many folks will have to die or be sickened before they shut the door-- test everything- and find out the extent of all these tainted products......
One article I read- said that the Government/Administration is afraid to shut off China-even for a short period- because then the consumers/citizens/voters will actually learn how much of the countries productability has been shipped to China-- and how vulnerable we now are since we can't/don't make anything domestically anymore....
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Poison pajamas
Embalming fluid found in kids duds from China
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Posted: August 20, 2007
5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
China's massive export industry has provided ginger contaminated with a pesticide, fish food raised in untreated sewage and toothpaste containing a solvent – and now children's clothing containing the poison formaldehyde.
According to a report in the Auckland, New Zealand, Sunday Star Times, an investigative team from the city's TV3 Target program has detailed how
scientists found formaldehyde, a chemical preservative, in wool and cotton clothing at levels hundreds of times higher than levels considered safe.
The chemical has been used as an embalming fluid and in clothing to preserve a "permanent press." It also has been used over the years in foam padding, and is used extensively in composite wood products in construction.
Research by the World Health Organization has concluded that exposure to formaldehyde in concentrations of 20 parts per million can cause eye, skin and nasal irritations, asthmas and cancer.
However, the testing for the television program resulted in some startling finds.
"Our results were shocking, ranging from 230 ppm to 18,000 ppm," Target producer Simon Roy told the newspaper, following tests on a girl's top, school shorts, a Spiderman T-shirt and pajamas.
"This is almost unbelievable. Some of the clothes Target tested having a reading 900 times the level that actually causes harm," he said.
Auckland mother Raewyn Rasch told the newspaper she was horrified to learn of the potential danger.
"What really annoys me is that, for mothers, kids are always coming up with scratches and marks and rashes. You ask them what they've been eating and where they've been. You wouldn't expect it to be the clothes they're wearing," she said.
She said her son's slacks, labeled 100 percent cotton, caused him a rash even after multiple washings.
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