[DemforBush]

Thanks for posting this. I’ve mentioned the Haiti poisonings before in a couple of China-related threads in the past, but this is by far the most detailed story on the topic I’ve seen.

[EggsAckley]

I read this long article earlier and was just amazed by it. I don’t know if posting all 7 pages of it is allowed, but I hope it is. Everyone on FR needs to read this.

Stop trade with China now!

[JACKRUSSELL]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828993/posts

[aimhigh]

"Chinese officials we contacted on this matter were all reluctant to become involved,"

No God, no conscience.

[traumer]

Everyday LOW - LOW PRICES !!

[EEDUDE]

If most of the "free traders" really stop and think about it, or do a little reading on the subject, they will recall that there were damn good reasons for the establishment of agencies like the FDA, and the regulations they impose.

[MarkL]

Let's see if I've got this straight... Melanine in wheat gluten, and diethylene glycol as glycerine... Yup! Let's continue getting base food stuffs from other countries, so that we can save some money!

Mark

[Calpernia]

This is very similar to the thread we were on last night. But more info is at the forum for those that had trouble clicking through to the article last night.

[mom4kittys]

[null and void]

“Most Favored Nation” my ass!

Sorry about the language, nothing else seems to cover it so succinctly.

[Captain Rhino]

Chinese government and industry: corrupt from beginning to end.

However, as this case and the pet food case reveals, even the cautious can become the victim of their profit and bribe driven, unscrupulous practices.

Although it is not always possible, I try to have nothing to do with them.

[bluefish]

Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades.

Kind of a weird article. Eight = "Mass?"

Researchers estimate that thousands have died.

Which is it? "At least eight" or "Thousands?"

[pabianice]

LINKS are your friends...

[lastchance]

Excellent article and a scary one too. Thanks for the post.

[Calvin Locke]

I read the ingredients on a soda I bought out of a machine. Can't remember the name of it, but it had ethylene glycol in it.

I did a double take, then I remembered what was in anti-freeze.

[ASOC]

Thanks for posting.

I would note than Imas caught the tainted pet food as they do their own QA testing house.

Would taht the folks who make meficine perform the same tests to ensure the purity of product. Now (and as before with some of us) everything from CHina is suspect.

We are label checkers. I just don’t buy stuff from China if we have the choice.

[NRA2BFree]

Thanks for posting this article. It was a long article, but well worth the read. Now we have to wonder just how many other potentially fatal products are coming out of China. With their reluctance to allow our inspectors in it certainly looks like an organized cover up!

[browardchad]

Sun Jing, the pharmaceutical program officer for the World Health Organization in Beijing, said the health agency sent a fax "to remind the Chinese government that China should not be selling poisonous products overseas." Sun said the agency did not receive an official reply.

Now isn't that special?

No more worries -- the WHO has everything under control with that really scarey "reminder" to China that they really shouldn't poison the rest of the world, pretty please.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Over the years, the poison has been loaded into all varieties of medicine — cough syrup, fever medication, injectable drugs — a result of counterfeiters who profit by substituting the sweet-tasting solvent for a safe, more expensive syrup, usually glycerin, commonly used in drugs, food, toothpaste, and other products.

....The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.

Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents. Head's up to my dear friends......

[fella]

Dear Lord, protect us from our own perfidy and sloth.