This time it's metal-filled suckers for kids. :mad: Police seized the Pokemon brand lollipops filled with metal shavings meant for a school Valentine's Day party less than a day after a woman found a blade in her child's candy.:(

Police said the lollipops did not appear to be tampered with and it appeared the metal was baked into the candy in China.

http://www.local6.com/news/15304726/detail.html

When are people going to get smart and stop buying cr@p from China. The list of dangerous/deadly cr@p they send us is growing. :mad:

Now they could be sending deadly blood-thinner. :eek:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56452

Da da da daaaaaa Sandy Power!

Everytime I turn around there are more deadly/dangerous products coming from China:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=55763
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56056
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55892

:mad:

China realy dosen't liek you does it?

China realy dosen't liek you does it?

No. They just like our money. :(

The USA gives China an erection every morning of the year. The USA wants cheap consumer products by the ton, China makes cheap consumer products by the Ton. You were made for each other and soon the USA will have a little made in China tag handing of the Florida coast.

I know I'm watching what country stuff is made in more now. This is getting ridiculous!
Staples and razors in kids candy. I had to go through my daughters candy and yep, there was one of those Pokemon suckers. No metal that I could see, but I wasn't taking any chances. If visible metal was in the candy, how hard would it be for rat poison or some other chemical to be in it?

There seems to be the implication running here, that this episode was a deliberate attempt to harm, and not the result of a mechanical failure and human error. I've seen no evidence of deliberate tampering- and the onus is upon those making such accusations to produce it. Sandy is most likely politicizing a disgraceful mistake, for aggressive purposes. There is no evidence here of a Chinese assault on USAmerican children. Such aggressive, confrontational innuendo as Sandy is spreading here is much more dangerous to millions of children than faulty food-processing equipment. Sandy's contaminated world-view seeks conflict, and requires great new cold and hot wars for its validation. Such sociopathy has claimed, and continues to claim considerably more innocent victims than accidentally-contaminated candy.

You're right, stop buying foods from China because they sometimes have things in that they shouldn't, and the same goes for American products, and those pesky Canucks, and the French, and British, in fact just don't eat anymore because you simply can't trust what's in the product. PANIC! :p

You're right, stop buying foods from China because they sometimes have things in that they shouldn't, and the same goes for American products, and those pesky Canucks, and the French, and British, in fact just don't eat anymore because you simply can't trust what's in the product. PANIC! :p

While your at it, don't eat take out food anymore or go to restaurants.
God knows who is spitting on your food and touching it with their dirty fingers!

Don't let your kids go out for Halloween either, because there is always some nutcases out there injecting something into the candy.

Invest in some equipment to test all your food before you eat it. Tear everything apart like you are looking for a file in a cake. Or go with Flags suggestion and just don't eat anymore.

You're right, stop buying foods from China because they sometimes have things in that they shouldn't, and the same goes for American products, and those pesky Canucks, and the French, and British, in fact just don't eat anymore because you simply can't trust what's in the product. PANIC! :p

You can trust McDonalds. They guarantee the fat levels in their stuff.

While your at it, don't eat take out food anymore or go to restaurants.
God knows who is spitting on your food and touching it with their dirty fingers!

Don't let your kids go out for Halloween either, because there is always some nutcases out there injecting something into the candy.

Invest in some equipment to test all your food before you eat it. Tear everything apart like you are looking for a file in a cake. Or go with Flags suggestion and just don't eat anymore.

Use your imagination. Employ one of Sandy's illegal, crimnal aliens as a food taster. If he dies, there are plenty more.

Use your imagination. Employ one of Sandy's illegal, crimnal aliens as a food taster. If he dies, there are plenty more.

:scratchin: Or maybe Sandy could take on that job herself. She would be doing a good deed, Jesus would be proud.:D

while I agree it isn't a deliberate act, the quality standards are non-existent. All those pets died because of that tainted poisoned food. What if it had been candy?

I would rather be safe than sorry, especially when it comes to my child's health.

while I agree it isn't a deliberate act, the quality standards are non-existent. All those pets died because of that tainted poisoned food. What if it had been candy?

I would rather be safe than sorry, especially when it comes to my child's health.

Of course you are right to look after your children's welfare. But it does seem that Sandy provoked the responses she got because of the way she expressed herself.

Speaking personally, I will not knowingly buy anything made in China because of the regine's appaling human rights record, But the hard fact is the we are all being flooded by Chinese goods, which people are happy to buy because they are cheaper that home made stuff.

My Dad is always preaching don't buy anything from China. I always say good luck!
Go around your house and start looking to see where almost everything is made.
If we didn't we wouldn't have 1/2 or 1/4 of the stuff we have.

You can trust McDonalds. They guarantee the fat levels in their stuff.

Does cardboard have much fat in it?

This is a political problem. Whatever happened to the FDA, NHTSA, CPSC, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol? Maybe they are being inhabited by political cronies of the Bush administration?

My Dad is always preaching don't buy anything from China. I always say good luck!
Go around your house and start looking to see where almost everything is made.
If we didn't we wouldn't have 1/2 or 1/4 of the stuff we have.

I agree. Its damn near impossible. I couldn't even imagine trying.
But when it comes to food, NOPE!

I am selective when I buy food. Considering I hate Chinese food,
I don't have much problem there!

But I don't read the labels as to where candy, cookies, crackers, etc are made.
I haven't a clue.

In all seriousness though, why does it matter what country it's made in, isn't it down to the company that makes the product to ensure it's satisfactory? Lots of companies make their goods in foreign nations.

Yes, and they trust the out-sourced company to do what they say they are going to do. To do what they are paid to do. Not cut corners, follow procedures, have quality control, etc.

BTW people you do realise its a little hypocritical to be critising china while at the same time taking koria to the world court for banning the importation of beef with CNS in it because of the risk of BSE


Oh and

You do realise that anthrax lives in the ground for 100's of years so there could be an outbreak of ANTHRAX at any moment.

My Dad is always preaching don't buy anything from China. I always say good luck!
Go around your house and start looking to see where almost everything is made.
If we didn't we wouldn't have 1/2 or 1/4 of the stuff we have.

You are right. The flood of Chinese goods seems unstoppable. I simply ask where something is made and, if told China ,I will seek an alternative. It's but a small gesture but it helps me to feel comfortable with myself.

You can sometimes find stuff from Taiwan or South Korea, for example. The one item that I can guarantee does not come from China is god's handcream. Stock up npw before it's too late and, while you're at it get some for John.
He deserves the best

Does cardboard have much fat in it?

Not in it. ON it. Haven't you heard anyone asking for a side order of cardboard with extra fat ?

BTW people you do realise its a little hypocritical to be critising china while at the same time taking koria to the world court for banning the importation of beef with CNS in it because of the risk of BSE
....

never heard that. :shrug:

In all seriousness though, why does it matter what country it's made in, isn't it down to the company that makes the product to ensure it's satisfactory? Lots of companies make their goods in foreign nations.

I have seen several tv documentaries made behind the scenes in countries where kids as youn as eight work a twelve-hour day. The companies for which the goods are made are not represented on site. They make periodic inspection but, as they signal their intention to visit, the kids disappear and everything seems ok. When secret film footage is shown to company officials, they invariable express surprise and promise to look into the matter, Then nothing happens.

My impression is that these companies know they are using exploited labour by proxy but don't give a damn about anything but their bottom line.

I have seen four such documentaries in about the last two years.

Are you aware that there are US companies manufacturing offshore which means they can pay less than the the US minimum rate ?

i cant find the artical but it stated that the US was taking SK to the WTO because they refused a second shipment that breached there no bone and no CNS rules. Ie there were bone fragments in it and they sent it back to the US. The US was VERY unhappy about that

I have seen several tv documentaries made behind the scenes in countries where kids as youn as eight work a twelve-hour day. The companies for which the goods are made are not represented on site. They make periodic inspection but, as they signal their intention to visit, the kids disappear and everything seems ok. When secret film footage is shown to company officials, they invariable express surprise and promise to look into the matter, Then nothing happens.

My impression is that these companies know they are using exploited labour by proxy but don't give a damn about anything but their bottom line.
Agreed, I don't think any of these companies are naive enough not to realise it goes on, in fact a lot of companies(in general) encourage cutting corners such as that, it's all about the profit margins after all.

Are you aware that there are US companies manufacturing offshore which means they can pay less than the the US minimum rate ?
I'm sure I've heard that before, they can and do try anything possible to reduce costs, it's why so many companies move their services abroad to places like South America and India as the labour is far far cheaper than in developed countries, the people there love the companies because they pay 3 times their average wage but less than half that of a developed nation, everyone's a winner as they say.:shrug:

hey anti flag, did you name yourself off the band? Im watching an interview with them now actually:p

The one item that I can guarantee does not come from China is god's handcream. Stock up npw before it's too late and, while you're at it get some for John.
He deserves the best

LMFAO!!! It guarantees to lift and tighten!

There seems to be the implication running here, that this episode was a deliberate attempt to harm, and not the result of a mechanical failure and human error. I've seen no evidence of deliberate tampering- and the onus is upon those making such accusations to produce it. Sandy is most likely politicizing a disgraceful mistake, for aggressive purposes. There is no evidence here of a Chinese assault on USAmerican children. Such aggressive, confrontational innuendo as Sandy is spreading here is much more dangerous to millions of children than faulty food-processing equipment. Sandy's contaminated world-view seeks conflict, and requires great new cold and hot wars for its validation. Such sociopathy has claimed, and continues to claim considerably more innocent victims than accidentally-contaminated candy.

You're blaming *me* for China's POS behavior? WTF? :mad:

There's a whole list of cr@p from China that kills/maims/ and is dangerous for Americans. Anyone who buys ANYTHING made in China is trusting morons with their health.:(

hey anti flag, did you name yourself off the band? Im watching an interview with them now actually:p

Yeh I did. :) I like the name, and the sentiments of the band, so it seems very appropriate for my views and personality, at least politically.

No. They just like our money. :(

Other way around, our businesses go over there and exploit the workers, and we keep on buying from those businesses. Do your homework sandy, China is communist, all of the money people make goes to the community, not the individual.

I do agree with Sandy, but not for her reasons on it, but we should stop sending manufacturing jobs over there and keep them here in America.

I'm gl@d she put the @ in the title instead of an "a". I almost thought of something ba...

too late.

My iPod was made in China and it's great - not a single problem.
My PS2 was made in China and it's great - not a single problem.
My DocMartins were made in England - lasted less then 6 mo and the sole snapped right in half :(

Agreed, I don't think any of these companies are naive enough not to realise it goes on, in fact a lot of companies(in general) encourage cutting corners such as that, it's all about the profit margins after all.


I'm sure I've heard that before, they can and do try anything possible to reduce costs, it's why so many companies move their services abroad to places like South America and India as the labour is far far cheaper than in developed countries, the people there love the companies because they pay 3 times their average wage but less than half that of a developed nation, everyone's a winner as they say.:shrug:

Forgive me but I'm not up to speed with my geography. I was referring to offshore places governed by the US, something like a dependency, or a protectorate; that sort of thing. Because they are offshore and not, therefore, part of mainland US . there is no minimum wage.

You're blaming *me* for China's POS behavior? WTF? :mad:

There's a whole list of cr@p from China that kills/maims/ and is dangerous for Americans. Anyone who buys ANYTHING made in China is trusting morons with their health.:(

If that is indeed the case, then be the good citizen and start lobbying your Federal Government to end ALL trade with China. You stop selling them 'stuff' and they stop selling you 'stuff'.

I do agree with Sandy, but not for her reasons on it, but we should stop sending manufacturing jobs over there and keep them here in America.

And I agree with you on that. Sending jobs overseas was stupid. There are plenty of people to do them here. Not for slave wages, but they would do them....

Forgive me but I'm not up to speed with my geography. I was referring to offshore places governed by the US, something like a dependency, or a protectorate; that sort of thing. Because they are offshore and not, therefore, part of mainland US . there is no minimum wage.
Does Puerto Rico count as a protectorate? Dominican Republic? I think essentially it works along the same lines though really, although does that mean they still count as US companies? So am I right in presuming this provides other benefits for the company too?

If that is indeed the case, then be the good citizen and start lobbying your Federal Government to end ALL trade with China. You stop selling them 'stuff' and they stop selling you 'stuff'.

That goes for everyones country. i think It has more to do with quality control, compared to Japan, China and Korea are way behind. They are also cheaper, Japan is on par with U.S and makes some cool stuff.

I guess even in EU you would be hard pressed not to find 'made in china' stamped on the label. Even some of their most beloved products have made their way into Chineses manufacturing.:)

China is killing people in Panama too. They're really ticked off. China sent them medications tainted with a chemical found in antifreeze and brake fluid. Hundreds died. :mad:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23183803/

Buy Chinese at your own risk. I've been saying this for years....

This just keeps getting worse.

sandy I do love that your citising the goverment for something a rouge company did. You have those to you know, can anyone say ENRON???

The chiness goverment is quite willing to exicute companies executives who cause deaths. Now as much as i dispise CP, i WOULD say that this kinda shows they actually GIVE A SHIT what happens to other people outside there own country. The same cant be said for the US who couldnt care less

Ie leaving bone fragments in meat inspite of a ban on them being imported to SK, and then taking SK to the world trade organisation because "they wont let our bony meat in, WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

I'm not talking about that. I'm discussing Chinese cr@p. I never said we were perfect but we don't need anymore cr@p from China. Enough is enough. They have gone unpunished for WAY too long.:(

If you want to discuss the USA trying to poison/kill people in other countries with our exports, start a new thread. This one is for Chinese cr@p.

Please madam, may I have some more (crap)?

http://www.monkey.net/archives/feces.jpg

:D

....I'm sure I've heard that before, they can and do try anything possible to reduce costs, it's why so many companies move their services abroad to places like South America and India as the labour is far far cheaper than in developed countries, the people there love the companies because they pay 3 times their average wage but less than half that of a developed nation, everyone's a winner as they say.:shrug:

see that's what I've always thought to, so I never understood how those people were being exploited. Especially since they make more money.

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Seeing as sandy has made it abundently clear that this thread is ONLY here for the purpose of bagging china and has apsolutly no intrest in lissioning to anyone elses point of view, i see no purpose for it

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