She is exactly who I was thinking of:
Posted on 08/19/2007 5:41:09 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
The government has launched an urgent investigation after tests revealed dangerously high levels of poison in many of the clothes we wear.
Scientists working for TV3's target programme showed formaldehyde in clothes made in china at levels 900 times higher than is safe.
Mother-of-two Susan Lord is careful to give her daughters healthy, nutritious food and make her home safe for them.
But there's a hidden danger lurking in their wardrobe and it is putting all of us at risk.
Tests of new children's clothes bought in New Zealand shops, including the Warehouse and Kmart, found alarmingly high levels of formaldehyde, used to make clothes crease-resistant.
The clothes were all made in China, but TV3's Target programme will reveal on Tuesday why buying Kiwi-made brands could still put you at risk.
The results were so high the scientists, employed by Target, rechecked their data to make sure they had got it right.
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs is investigating urgently.
The advice is to wash all new clothes and air them before they are worn. But even that may not be enough to lower the residues to a safe level.
This may be the chemical in the the flip-flops responsible for burning that woman’s feet.
Formaldehyde is good for you, look what it has done for Lenin!
The People’s Republic of China always was a bad business proposition but I’m not obsessing on this issue, just noting the mess created by our dealings with them.
Since I don’t support the big government regulation like the Consumer Product Safety Commission that forces the “recalls” we have been hearing about lately, I’m not making such a fuss about the products.
Why is anyone still buying anything, especially foodstuffs and toothpaste, that is made in China? I check the labels on everything I buy and don’t purchase it if China is anywhere on the label. I know that this doesn’t fully protect me, but at this point, it’s the best we can do.
If China reduced the amount of formalyn in its clothing, they could save a lot of money. Sounds like the red Chinese need a little six-sigma.
It’s hard to avoid ‘China’ when most of this country’s manufacturing has relocated there (cheap slave labor, lower taxes, and virtually no regulation). Yesterday, I was out shopping with the family and couldn’t find a single product in the store that wasn’t made in China.
I read of something like this years ago. Some kids got sick from wearing new clothes that had not been washed. Somehow they came in contact with a pesticide (IIRC) that got spilled on them. The people who washed their clothes first were OK.
I ALWAYS insist on washing stuff before we wear it.
“I ALWAYS insist on washing stuff before we wear it.”
Damn right.
Who knows what kind of turd world worker coughed up TB on it or whatever
I remember watching a show a few months ago, it may have been “House”, where some kids got very sick. Turns out they bought their “designer” jeans off the back of a truck and didn’t wash them before they put them on.
It doesn’t matter where clothes are made, I always put them through the wash first before wearing them. Think how many folks try them on to see if they fit. More, think how many dirty hands touch them while they are hanging on the racks.
(I have very few things, and I do mean very few, that have to be dry-cleaned. In those cases, I first send them to the dry-cleaners.)
Yeck!!!
Do you mean this woman Jack?
http://www.lamanaphotography.com/walmart3.htm
Purchase products that are 100% MADE IN THE USA!
Continue to take a stand and be a voice for our pets and our loved ones! Do everything you can to boycott goods made by China and this includes ingredients made in China, Chinese plant processing and Chinese exporting!
Our animals couldn’t speak for themselves.
Were they the canaries of the food chain?
We have to protect our families now.
BOYCOTT CHINA!!!!!!
Here is a list of a few items made in USA.
Made in USA
ussstuff.com
madeinusa.com
stillmadeinusa.com
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=246
http://travel.discovery.com/Ratzenberger-America_Goods_Goods.shtml
That’s funny, for a couple of years I have been saying it is better to buy clothing used as opposed to the new stuff, because the used is tried and tested, and the new has who knows what chemicals all over it.
I’ve worked at a tuxedo place that did their own dry cleaning, $4.85 to start 1993, min wage was probably $4.25, delivery driver mostly, my favorite job except for wages, to which I teased a Democrat that I would go back working there if Hillary’s first health care plan passed.
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Never thought of that. GROSS!
The early explorers infected many indigenous people with small pox through contaminated cloth.
I have a hard time going in a clothes store. I’m sure it’s due to the formaldehyde in the clothing. My eyes tear up, and my face turns red and burns. I buy most of my clothes online, and make sure I wash them a few times before I wear them.
“...when most of this country’s manufacturing has relocated there...”
It’s called treason.
Mikasa is going out of business in November throughout the USA and Canada.
I buy the reduced to clear stuff and use it as decorate accents.
Yet I was suprize when I bought a collection of Billiards glasses/dessert plates/pitcher set is was made in France not China.
So all you gals who love Mikasa stuff November 18 (IIRC the date in November) they should be having one heck of a sale on what is left on inventory.
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