January 2010
14 posts
Instant Noodle Recall After Failed Inspection -... →
USDA recalls Jin Mai Lang Brand instant noodles that were imported to the United States from China.
Melamine-Tainted Milk Adds to China's Product... →
(Jan. 25) – In the most recent of a string of scandals related to contamination in consumer goods in China, milk products tainted with toxic melamine have been pulled from store shelves, The Associated Press reports.
The Canadian Press: China pulls more... →
BEIJING — Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
An open secret: Chinese manufacturers use toxic... →
YIWU, China (AP) — For China’s low-cost jewelry makers, it was an open trade secret: The metal cadmium is shiny, strong and malleable at low temperatures, regardless of its health hazards. And it’s cheap.
Walmart pulling jewelry cited in AP cadmium report... →
LOS ANGELES – Federal and state watchdogs opened a new front Monday in the campaign to keep poisons out of Chinese imports, launching inquiries into high levels of cadmium in children’s jewelry while Walmart pulled many suspect items from its store shelves.
Toxic metal in kids' jewelry from China - Yahoo!... →
LOS ANGELES – Barred from using lead in children’s jewelry because of its toxicity, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium in sparkling charm bracelets and shiny pendants being sold throughout the United States, an Associated Press investigation shows.
China Introduces "Made In China" Campaign - The... →
China has caught on to the fact that it doesn’t enjoy a stellar reputation over here as a manufacturer of quality goods, especially after the tainted food and product stories of the past few years, so it’s doing what any good profit-minded business would do: running an image rehabilitation campaign.
China Tainted Milk Problem Kept Secret for Months... →
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities kept concerns about the safety of a Shanghai dairy’s products secret for nearly a year before announcing last week that the company had been shut for manufacturing contaminated milk, an official said Thursday.
China kept new toxic milk case secret for a year,... →
Officials announced closure of Shanghai Panda last week after reportedly opening melamine investigation last February
Melamine Reprise: Who Knew What When? - China Real... →
Indications are stacking up that Chinese health authorities suspected some milk products from Shanghai Panda Dairy Co. were tainted with deadly melamine as early as eight months before they announced such findings last week in the final hours of 2009.
Shanghai dairy shut after melamine scare: report |... →
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Shanghai dairy has been closed and three of its executives arrested for selling milk powder tainted with melamine, the industrial chemical responsible for the death of six children in 2008, Xinhua news agency reported.
Shanghai Dairy Shut Over Tainted Milk Products -... →
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities shut down a dairy in Shanghai and arrested three of its executives after tests found some of its milk products were tainted with the same industrial chemical at the center of a milk safety scandal more than a year ago, state media said Friday.