Admiral Beez
Superstar
By now I imagine all of us are familiar with the tainted and ill-produced pet food, toothpaste, confectionary (with dangerous levels or outlawed food colours and additives), fish (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=5600400 , blood products, lead-painted/dangerous toys, self igniting compact bulbs, etc...from China.
My question, do any of you now actively avoid goods made in China? Does all this news have any impact on your buying habits? Myself, if I see made in China, I generally don't buy it. That means that my two young daughters can't have the latest Disney toys at Christmas or the cheapest plastic/vinyl shoes, nor can they have the gel-pops in the form of their favourite brand characters. But it's a small price for safety, at least until the day China gets its quality control under wraps.
Did you know that China is the global leader in producing apples? That a lot of the apple juice concentrates consumed in the west come from China, but are repacked in Canada where they are added to Canadian water, and thus become product of Canada.
I read a good press release from China, where the head of China's food safety basically said that if western importing companies come to China for only the cheap price of things, then that's what they'll get. The wheat gluten laced with melamine was a classic example - as there's no way that Chinese companies could sell wheat gluten far below the global commodity price without doctoring the goods somehow; and western importers should have known this, but didn't care.
My question, do any of you now actively avoid goods made in China? Does all this news have any impact on your buying habits? Myself, if I see made in China, I generally don't buy it. That means that my two young daughters can't have the latest Disney toys at Christmas or the cheapest plastic/vinyl shoes, nor can they have the gel-pops in the form of their favourite brand characters. But it's a small price for safety, at least until the day China gets its quality control under wraps.
Did you know that China is the global leader in producing apples? That a lot of the apple juice concentrates consumed in the west come from China, but are repacked in Canada where they are added to Canadian water, and thus become product of Canada.
I read a good press release from China, where the head of China's food safety basically said that if western importing companies come to China for only the cheap price of things, then that's what they'll get. The wheat gluten laced with melamine was a classic example - as there's no way that Chinese companies could sell wheat gluten far below the global commodity price without doctoring the goods somehow; and western importers should have known this, but didn't care.