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Rob_Hugo@PortNWDespite the recent watchdog websites devoted to divesting information about hazardous products eminating from Chinese factories (for which blame needs to be cast on US quality control or lack thereof), I find myself paranoid about Made in China products that could be eaten upon, slept upon, baked in, or - moreover - put in close proximity to an orifice.
How are consumers supposed to truly feel confident that we're not excitedly giving our money to a company for the latest in non-stick bakeware that will, in the end, kill us?
AnonymousI think it's an over reaction to the cases of lead etc from China. Am I worried about products from India or Indonesia or any other developing country? Not too much. I do lay a large blame on these problems on US companies that dont check their own products. I could go to Target right now and buy a lead test kit for less than $20 and test my toys at home. Why didn't Mattel do this with any one of their millions of toys they shipped over? Of course, I'm not saying certain Chinese companies are not at fault - they are. But what have American companies done to check this? I could have done this for $20. Maybe I should create a side business to do this. I teach chemistry after all.
AnonymousI was just thinking about the non stick teflon that is used on our pots and pans. That was invented by Dupont and has nothing to do with the Chinese companies that incorporate them into the pans. The american companies told the chinese companies what to make. They made them. Its our own fault for asking any company whether its in china or anywhere else to use materials that are harmful to us. To me, I see it as the people who sued McDonalds for making them obese. They ordered the food. Tough - deal with it.
AnonymousI came across this news from the Associated Press on Wednesday. At least eight Japanese were sickened, including a child who remains in a coma, after eating Chinese-made dumplings contaminated with an insecticide, police and health officials said. A family of three in western Hyogo and another family of five in Chiba, near Tokyo, suffered severe abdominal pains, vomiting and diarrhea after eating the frozen dumplings imported from China by a Japanese company, the Health Ministry said. The five-year-old girl in Chiba remained in a coma and her mother, two brothers and a sister were in serious condition, a Chiba police spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity in accordance with police policy.
Investigators found traces of organic phosphorus insecticide in the dumplings, their containers and the patients' vomit, the ministry said in a statement. Authorities were attempting to determine the source of the contamination, it said.
Police were investigating the case, and the ministry has ordered the dumplings' importer and distributor, JT Foods Co. Ltd. -- an affiliate of Japan's largest tobacco company -- to recall the product.
The dumplings were imported in November from the same Chinese manufacturer, Hebei Foodstuffs Import & Export Group Tianyang Food Processing, the ministry said.
My children love dumplings and we often order them whenever we go to Chinese dimsums. Are these dumplings imported from China or those Chinese restaurants here just make them? Just curious.
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AnonymousThose dumplings are made here. Even many of the frozen ones that you find in the asian grocery stores are made here. I'm not exactly worried about it. I do consider safety if I see frozen fish imported from certain countries. I wouldnt buy frozen fish fillets from China. I just dont trust that.