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8/3/07 POISON FOOD - POISON TOYS

CORPORATE GREED HAS PUT THE LIVES OF AMERICANS IN DANGER

By Ken Fox

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JUST SHOVEL ANY SHIT ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE = CORPORATE GREED AND POISON CHINESE FOOD. NO ONE TOLD US THAT OUR FOOD WAS COMING FROM CHINA... THEY KNEW THAT IF WE HAD A CHOICE WE WOULDN'T EAT IT. AMERIC'S FOOD SUPPLY HAS BEEN CORRUPTED. OUR PAID OFF, LOBBYIST CONTROLED GOVERNMENT HAS ALLOWED THIS. Now this greed in playing with our very lives... and our children's lives... our children's toys from China has lead in the paint. What ever happened to "the Communist Menace. China is a communist dictatorship. Now we borrow from them. Wall Street and Corporate greed made China rich... now China is taking that wealth and is building a massive army, a navy and an airforce.

8/5/07 Lour Dobbs Tonight: PILGRIM: Communist China's military and economic expansion is creating foreign policy challenges for the United States and its allies. Australia's prime minister, the latest world leader to say China's growing military power could cause greater instability in the region.

Christine Romans has our report.

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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From Australia, a rare warning on communist China's military ambitions: "The pace and scope of its military modernization, particularly the development of new and disruptive capabilities, such as the anti- satellite missile, could create misunderstandings and instability in the region."

Prime Minister John Howard addressing reporters.

JOHN HOWARD, AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER: China's rise is good for China and good for the world. However, U.S./China relations, China/Japan tensions and long-standing flashpoints in Taiwan and the Korean Peninsula will require continuing careful management.

ROMANS: The Chinese foreign ministry responded, as it has in the past, insisting its military growth is defensive.

QIN GANG, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY (through translator): China will be unwavering in keeping the peaceful course of development.

ROMANS: Not so, says Frank Gaffney, an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration.

FRANK GAFFNEY, CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY: Anti-satellite weapons, long-range ballistic missiles, new generations of nuclear weapons. These are things that I think clearly bespeak a long-term Chinese strategy.

ROMANS: A strategy he says meant to challenge the U.S. in the region. Yet, U.S. policy is to engage communist China as a trading partner, with the hope of shaping its rise.

MICHAEL O'HANLON, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: It's basically to allow China to grow economically and help it to do so, realizing that will give it the means to have a stronger military but hoping that will moderate its politics faster than it gives it military strength.

ROMANS: It is, O'Hanlon said, a calculated risk.

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ROMANS: But Australia's defense position, many say, is a sign that China's neighbors, and America's allies, are watching China's military buildup with ever more caution -- Kitty.

PILGRIM: Thanks very much, Christine Romans.

Well, as Christine just reported, communist China continues to build up its military to complete with the United States, but China lags years behind when it comes to product safety standards. That has led to a growing wave of recalls.

John VAUSE has our report.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): So, could you eat pork from pigs force-fed waste water? Drink milk from cows given so many antibiotics it's impossible to make yogurt from their milk? How about a serving of lard made from sewage? Because all of that and much more has been on China's menu in recent months.

Zhou Quin is a dissident writer who's researched this country's appalling food standards.

"The threat is so much more serious than people could ever imagine," he told me. He says many farmers and producers are continually finding new and dangerous ways to cut costs.

ZHOU QUIN, DISSIDENT WRITER (through translator): China has low labor costs, but you can work out how low the price should be. Businessmen should know something is wrong if the product is cheaper than it should be.

VAUSE: Last week the U.S. banned four types of fish and shrimp from China because inspectors found traces of cancer-causing chemicals and antibiotics, including malachite green, which helps fish survive in polluted, overcrowded fisheries. It's still being used, despite being banned here five years ago. While in the U.S., it was banned 24 years ago.

SALLY GREENBERG, CONSUMERS UNION: We have no real sense of the regulatory infrastructure in China, which probably is about 100 years behind where we are in the United States.

VAUSE: And the World Health Organization says time has run out for China to act.

DR. ROGER SKINNER, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: China is at a crossroads. Where I feel, you know, they -- they have to make a decision as to what they're going to do, and it's a decision which cannot be put off.

VAUSE: It's not just food. Consumer alerts have been issued for products, from toxic toothpaste to lead-painted toys. So far this year, 60 percent of all recalled consumer products in the U.S. have come from China.

The government here blames media hype.

"Consumers shouldn't be scared of Chinese products," he says. "They should have a reputation of being good quality, cheap and safe." (on camera) Well, one out of three isn't bad. No one ever said Chinese goods weren't cheap.

John Vause, CNN, Beijing.

Wider Sale Is Seen for Toothpaste Tainted in China Who the hell knew our tooth paste was manufactured in China... poison dog food now poison toothpaste all because of corporate greed... plus a poison US government... somethings gotta go. Ken Fox... this place is getting to be a pig-pen!

After federal health officials discovered last month that tainted Chinese toothpaste had entered the United States, they warned that it would most likely be found in discount stores.

In fact, the toothpaste has been distributed much more widely. Roughly 900,000 tubes containing a poison used in some antifreeze products have turned up in hospitals for the mentally ill, prisons, juvenile detention centers and even some hospitals serving the general population.

The toothpaste was handed out in dozens of state institutions, mostly in Georgia but also in North Carolina, according to state officials. Hospitals in South Carolina and Florida also reported receiving Chinese-made toothpaste, and a major national pharmaceutical distributor said it was recalling tainted Chinese toothpaste.

The Food and Drug Administration has advised consumers to discard all Chinese-made toothpaste, regardless of the brand.

State officials in Georgia and North Carolina said all the tainted tubes were being replaced with brands made outside China. The officials said there had been no reports of illnesses caused by the toothpaste.

Officials of the Food and Drug Administration said toothpaste with even small amounts of the bad ingredient, diethylene glycol, a syrupy poison, had a “low but meaningful risk of toxicity and injury” for children and people with kidney or liver disease.

“This stuff does not belong in toothpaste, period,” a spokesman for the drug agency, Doug Arbesfeld, said. “No Chinese toothpaste has come into the country since the end of May.”

Since the Panamanian government found Chinese toothpaste with diethylene glycol in May, countries from Latin America to West Africa to Japan have seized the toothpaste.

Panama last year inadvertently mixed the poison made in China into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine, killing at least 100 people, prosecutors there said.

Diethylene glycol is often used in Chinese toothpaste in place of its more expensive chemical cousin glycerin. Chinese regulators have said that toothpaste with small amounts of diethylene glycol is not harmful and that international concern is unjustified.

After the drug agency expressed concern about tainted toothpaste, the Georgia Department of Administrative Services checked to see whether Chinese toothpaste was being used by the state. The department found it in 83 prisons, 4 mental health centers and 4 juvenile detention centers, said Rick Beal, contracts manager for the department.

Mr. Beal said officials confiscated 5,877 remaining cases, each with 144 tubes, of the Springfresh brand. Tests showed the toothpaste had a diethylene glycol concentration of about 5 percent, he said.

The state bought the toothpaste for about 9 cents a tube in 2002. Mr. Beal said he did not know how many tubes had been used.

There are no reports of harm resulting from the toothpaste, bought from a distributor, American Amenities in Seattle.

“We do not know who their manufacturer from China was,” Mr. Beal said.

A lawyer for American Amenities, Jesse Lyon, said it had recalled all suspect shipments of the product and had decided to stop importing Chinese toothpaste. Mr. Lyon said he believed that American Amenities had about 30 institutional customers, with Georgia being the largest.

A spokesman for the North Carolina Department of Corrections, George Dudley, said his agency estimated that it bought 22,000 tubes of Pacific brand Chinese toothpaste with a small amount of diethylene glycol from Pacific Care Products in San Francisco.

Pacific Care did not respond to a request for comment, but an executive wrote to North Carolina officials that the toothpaste came from Amercare Products, also in Seattle. A spokeswoman for Amercare declined to comment.

Chinese toothpaste containing “trace amounts” of diethylene glycol has also been recalled from healthcare institutions by McKesson, a major pharmaceutical distributor and health services company, said a spokesman, James Larkin.

Mr. Larkin said although this particular brand, McKesson EverFRESH, was not on the drug agency’s list of contaminated toothpaste, McKesson asked a laboratory to test it. When small amounts of diethylene glycol turned up, the company recalled the product, he said.

“We went back through our records, and every customer that ever bought the product was contacted,” Mr. Larkin said.

He added that on short notice he could not determine how many customers had bought the product.

One institution that did was Florida Hospital Waterman, a 200-bed institution in Tavares, Fla.

“We pulled that product,” Bonnie Zimmerman of the hospital said.

Ms. Zimmerman said that the toothpaste that replaced it also came from China and it had “trace amounts” of diethylene glycol. It, too, was removed, she said.

In South Carolina, four hospitals in the Greenville Hospital System also removed Chinese toothpaste, even though its distributor said it did not have diethylene glycol, said John Mateka, executive director of materials management for the group.

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