Dangerous Made-In-China Products: 2007 Timeline
July 7, 2007 | by Jefferson | Filed Under Business |
With recent high-profile incidents involving dangerous goods imported from China, the American media has finally begun to warn consumers about the dangers of cheaply producing goods in a country hardly known for its strict safety regulations. After spending some time digging through product recall press releases, we’ve found that the mainstream media is still only reporting the tip of the iceberg when it comes to dangerous products imported from China. Here’s a timeline we’ve created, which shows the huge amount of faulty/dangerous Chinese product scandals so far this year [this list will be regularly updated]:
January 2007
- Toxic Overalls: Samarra Brothers recalled Chinese-manufactured children’s two-piece overall sets because the coatings on the snaps in the overalls and shirt contain excessive amounts of lead, posing a serious risk of lead poisoning and adverse health effects to young children.
- Fire Hazard Heaters: Family Dollar Stores recalled 35,000 oscillating ceramic heaters that were found to overheat and smoke, which could pose a fire hazard to consumers.
- Bad Wiring In Fans: Holmes Group recalled about 300,000 Chinese-manufactured oscillating tower fans that were found to have bad wiring that creates a fire hazard.
- Dangerous Candles: Sally Foster recalled over 46,000 sets of imported Tea Lights candles after it was reported that the candles have a clear, plastic shell that can melt or ignite, posing a fire or burn hazard to consumers.
- Dryers With Electrocution Hazard: Metropolis Beauty recalled about 18,000 Travel’N Baby Mini Hair Dryers, which were not equipped with an immersion protection plug to prevent electrocution if the hair dryer falls into water. Electric shock protection devices are required by industry standards for all electric hand-held hair dryers.
- Improperly Wired/Flammable Lamps: Hong Ten Trading recalled about 4,000 electric oil lamps that had power cords that were not correctly secured and had no strain relief on their switch housing. The switch housing was also not flame-retardant, which poses a fire hazard.
February 2007
- Overheating Remote Controls: Best Buy recalled about 10,000 Isignia DVD Player remotes after it was found that improper battery placement in the remote could result in overheating and present a burn hazard.
- Lead Poisoning Hazard: 115,000 Claudia Jublot children’s rings, which were sold at Big Lots stores, were recalled because they contained dangerous levels of lead.
- Defective Lamps: Currey & Company of Georgia recalled about 2,600 Chinese-manufactured lamps that had defective light sockets, which could pose electrical shock and fire hazards.
- Lead Accessories: Kidsite jewelry sets, which were sold at Kmart stores across America, were recalled for containing high levels of lead.
- Toxic Jackets: Samara Brothers recalled thousands of its outwear jackets for children because the snap closures on the jackets contained excessive amounts of lead, which poses a lead poisoning hazard.
- Lead Bracelets: Imported Chinese bracelets that were sold under the “Ultra Gear” brand were recalled because they contained high levels of lead.
- Hazardous Toy Batteries: JAKKS Pacific recalled over 240,000 battery packs for toy vehicles after dozens of reports of the batteries melting or catching fire.
- Lead Rings: About 280,000 children’s Rachael Rose Kidz rings were recalled after they were found to contain high levels of lead.
March 2007
- Breakable Bike Frames: Target’s made-in-China Triax PK7 and Vertical PK7 bike frames were recalled after it was found that the frames could break rather easily, injuring anyone unlucky enough to be riding such a bike.
- Razor Blades For Kids: Tri Star International recently recalled a made-in-China children’s stationary, which contained a dangerous razor blade.
- Shocking Extension Cords: Dollar Stop Plus recalled 15-foot extension cords that had undersized wiring, and failed to connect properly at the plug and receptacle ends. This poses fire, shock and electrocution hazards to consumers.
- Lead Easels: Discount School Supply recalled Elite about 2,500 5-in-1 Easels after finding that the chalkboard side of the Chinese-manufactured easels contained high levels of lead.
- Lead Necklaces: Children’s necklaces sold at Accessories Palace were recalled because they contained high levels of lead.
- Toxic Paint: Toys R Us recalled over 128,000 Elite Operations toy sets because the paint used by the Chinese manufacturer of the toys contained high levels of lead.
- Lead Mood Necklace: About 47,000 children’s mood necklace imported from China by Rhode Island Novelty were recalled for containing high levels of lead.
- Dangerous Sconces: Home Dectorators recalled about 900 Chinese-produced wall sconces, after finding that many were missing back plates, which exposes consumers to live wires and poses a risk of electrical shock to consumers changing the light bulb.
- Lead Paint On Baby Toys: Stuffed Fun Balls, which were sold at dollar stores and other discount stores from June 2006 until March 2007, were recalled because the paint used by the Chinese manufacturer of the baby toy contained dangerous levels of lead.
April 2007
- Poison Pet Food: Two Chinese companies intentionally exported contaminated pet food ingredients to the United States, killing hundreds of American pets that ate the food.
- Unhappy Hanukkah: Aviv Judaica Imports recalled its Chanukah Oil Candles sets after it was found that they can become engulfed in flames and melt the plastic cups holding the candles in place, allowing hot wax to leak out, which poses fire and burn hazards to consumers.
- Oil Heater Fire Hazard: Holmes Group recalled about 300,000 of its oil-filled electric heaters after discovering that a poor electrical connection within the Chinese-manufactured heaters could overheat and cause fires.
- Flaming Boomboxes: Coby Electronics recalled over 13,000 USB/MP3/CD boomboxes due to electrical problems that could cause them to overheat and catch fire.
- Collapsing Baby Seats: Infant Bouncer Seats were recalled by Oeuf LLC after reports the seats’ metal frame breaking.
- Flammable Baby Clothes: Disney Stores recalled its Baby Einstein Caterpillar Sleepwear and Baby Einstein Duck Sleepwear because of a failure to meet the children’s flammability standard, posing a risk of burn injury to children.
- Hazardous Candles: McCormick Distilling Company recalled 60,000 Tequila Rose Strawberry Cream candle sets after finding that the martini glass containing the gel candle can break while the candle is burning, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers.
- Lead Bracelets: A&A Global Industries issued a recall for about 4 million of its Children’s Groovy Grabber Bracelets, which were painted with paint that contained high levels of lead.
- Lead Key Chains: Dollar General Merchandising recalled about 400,000 Chinese-manufactured Keychains because they contained high levels of lead.
- Shocking Palm Trees: iObjectSolutions Inc. of Georgia’s Chinese-made Pre-lit Palm Trees was found to have electrical problems with its lighting system, which could cause fires or electric shocks.
- Unguarded Blades: Sears warned customers to remove the “Craftsman” logo label from their Chinese-made Craftsman Circular Saws, after it was found that the label could become partially detached, leading to exposure of the saw blade and injury to those operating the saw.
May 2007
- Toxic Fish: It is believed that imported Chinese monkfish was actually deadly puffer fish, a labeling disaster that lead to the hospitalization of at least one person in America.
- Tween’s Lead Jewerly: Tween Brands Inc. of New York recalled a set of Chinese-manufactured metal jewelry for children that jewelry contained high levels of lead, which can cause adverse health effects and is toxic if ingested by young children.
- Toxic Drums: The Boyds Collection of Pennsylvania recalled its “Eli’s Small Drums and Liberty’s Large Drums” when it was found that the paint used by its Chinese manufacturer contained dangerous levels of lead.
- Children’s Rings: Cardinal Distributing Company of Maryland recalled its “Children’s Turquoise Rings” for containing dangerous levels of lead.
- More Lead Jewelry: Spandrel Sales and Marketing of Arizona recalled 200,000 children’s necklaces, bracelets and rings because they contained dangerous levels of lead.
- Collapsing Stools: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store recalled over 2,000 Chinese-manufactured kitchen stools, which had been found to unexpectedly collapse during use.
- Lead Bamboo: Anima Bamboo Collection Games, manufactured by HaPe International Ltd., of Ningbo, China, were recalled when the toys in game sets were found to contain lead paint.
- Hazardous Grills: Grills produced in China by Sagittarius Sporting Goods were recalled after many were found to be missing a hose that connects the grill manifold to its side burner, posing a risk of fires and burn injuries to customers.
- Toxic Jesus Fish: Oriental Trading Company of Nebraska recalled over 130,000 religious fish necklaces for children, which had been found to contain high levels of lead.
- Hazardous Candles: Vivre Royal was forced to recall a set of Chinese-produced candles when it came to light that their exterior coating and decorations were highly flammable.
June 2007
- Kerosene Eyeballs: Gemmy Industries recalled several hundred plastic “Floating Eyeballs” because they contained kerosene, which if broken, presents a chemical hazard to children.
- Deadly Tires: Tire importer Foreign Tire Sales, based in Union, N.J., recalled as many as 450,000 tires after it was reported that the treads on light-truck radials manufactured by Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber Co. in Hangzhou, China, were shoddily manufactured and could separate. Several traffic deaths have been blamed on such tires.
- Tainted Seafood: The FDA detained imports of three types of Chinese fish — catfish, basa and dace — as well as shrimp and eel after repeated testing turned up contamination with drugs unapproved in the United States for use in farmed seafood.
- Toxic Thomas the Tank Engine Toys: American toy company RC2 was forced to recall a series of wooden toys based on the popular children’s show after it was revealed that they were painted with dangerously toxic paint.
- Lead Earrings: Accessories・Silver Stud Earring Sets, jewelry for kids that was sold in Kmart stores across America, were recalled after being found to contain dangerous levels of lead.
- Deadly Cribs: American company Simplicity Inc. recently found that the directions for its made-in-China Nursery-In-A-Box crib had been improperly produced. If followed, the Chinese-made directions could cause the crip to come apart and trap/injure babies.
- Poisonous Toothpaste: The FDA recently found that several low-priced toothpastes imported from China contained diethylene glycol, which poisons the liver and kidneys and depresses the central nervous system.
- Lead Necklaces: Geocentral’s Butterfly Necklaces for kids were recalled when it was found that the metal clasps on the necklaces contained dangerous levels of lead.
- Unexpected Shattering: Pier 1 Imports recalled over 200,000 Chinese-made glassware pieces after it was found that they can crack or break unexpectedly, posing a laceration hazard to consumers.
- Collapsing Recliners: Rockingham Deluxe Lounge Chairs, imported from China by Rockingham Deluxe Lounge Chairs, were recalled because the chairs can collapse or fall backward due to faulty support brackets or weak frames, posing fall and severe laceration hazards to consumers.
July 2007
- Dangerously Crappy Hammocks: A free-standing hammock manufactured by the Chinese company Danlong Industries has been found to break quite easily, sending anyone unlucky enough to be resting in the hammock to the ground. Several people have reported injuries.
- “Essential” Lead Jewelry: Future Industries of New Jersey recalled their “Essentials for kids” jewelry product line after the Chinese-manufactured jewelry was found to contain dangerous levels of lead.
Are you concerned about the safety of "Made In China" products?
[Note: Most products on recall lists we checked were American companies’ products manufactured in China, but we have chosen to mention only the incidents that seem most likely connected to problems on the Chinese side, such as dangerous/faulty materials being used in production.]
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The razor blade link is wrong. Here is the right one.
I notice you continually blame the Chinese manufacturer despite the fact that the companies who import or re-brand refuse to test their products.
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How about other countries? It’s not just China.
Three things stand out:
1) Apparently, the East Asian land mass is composed solely of elemental lead.
2) American children are now bejeweled like Circassian whores.
3) Anybody who buys a Tequila Rose Strawberry Cream Candle Set will probably have their decor improved by a fire. It might smell better, too.
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This article seems to imply that only Chinese manufacturers are making dangerous products. Instead of railing on about how dangerous Chinese products are, why don’t you put this into perspective. why not provide a similar list for Mexico, Japan, Taiwan, or even better, the good ol’ USA?
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do you have a list of the withdrawn/rejected/dangerous made in usa products? might be interesting.
when i was young, “made in japan” meant junky. in a decade or two, chinese products will rule.
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Considering the sheer number of products produced in China compared to the rest of the world, I think this is a pretty good number. Can you provide some sort of comparison between the countries, but given in the context of a percentage? I mean, the United States might have fewer incidents in one respect, but produce fewer products in that field, too.
I think this is an over-simplified analysis. If there was some evidence that this is an anomaly, apparent only in the Chinese sector, then I would call for more action.
PS: Due to the sheer volume, might this also signal issues with the checks on intercontinental imports? Why are we finding out about these products after they mess up and have to be recalled?
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This is interesting, but useless without some sort of comparison to the total number of products produced versus the number of recalls per total products in other countries. Without that this information is meaningless
Would be interesting study to see however, comparison of the quality of goods from different countries based on the number of recalls per number of total products produced.
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i know that china made products are not up to par with qualities those made in the usa. but i believe that you should not single out china as the main culprit. because it is usa based companies in the first place who imported these items. these companies should be held responsible, not china.
on the other hand, think about a world without china, a big market for generalmotors/ ford company. now, that americans want their toyotas, do you think that american companies will just shrug off china? think again!
fyi i went to china in 1986, and i was surprised, because i rode my first audi limo, which is just their taxi at that time! actually at that time in shanghai, most chinese taxis are either mercedez or audi.
More media hysteria. When I was a teen I remember plenty of food recalls when I worked in the stock room of a large grocery chain. They were all domestic products.
Take the bird flu and SARS hype, one of the biggest bird flu outbreaks took place in Pennsylvania ,Maryland and Virginia in 1983 killing 20 million birds. But if you were not in the poultry industry you probably hadn’t heard of it since the media didn’t create mass hysteria like they do today.
Dangerous Made-In-China Products: 2007 Timeline…
With recent high-profile incidents involving dangerous goods imported from China, the American media has finally begun to warn consumers about the dangers of cheaply producing goods in a country hardly known for its strict safety regulations….
On the positive side, we’re able to employee millions of chinese people instead of employing people in our own country and paying them a living wage to make a good product. Who cares about China’s human right’s record and the fact that they’d love to wipe America off the earth? They’re cheap and that helps the CEOs! And really, they’re the only American citizens that matter.
These facts are nonsense.
Key point is how much percentage of the goods market does Chinese goods occupy. How much does percentage of goods is dangerous.
In fact, we could list a longer list that US goods is dangerous if someone has such free time.
Check out Banterist for a spoof list of recalled Chinese toys, like the toy shopping cart with razor sharp wheels that release toxic gas when exposed to water:
http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000480.html
You’re right, the American companies that imported the items should be held accountable, AS should the Chinese companies. Hopefully increased awareness of incidents such as the list we’ve posted will encourage both American and Chinese companies to have higher standards.
[I was in Shanghai a few months ago, and most of the taxis I saw were Volkswagens.]
I think the one who wrote this article is very irresponsible. Just think about the bigger picture. Think about how China is becoming a BIG potential untapped market for US goods. Think about what if China dropped all these US made goods, how many americans will loose their jobs. Would you really think GM and Ford will survive without the Chinese people? Because the Mainland China have closed its doors from the outside world before; what made you think that this new found capitalism will even last? I am just pointing out that if you pushed China too hard because Americans are loosing jobs to the Chinese, don’t you think it is healthy for the USA economically to do without China? Ok, let’s leave out the car issue, still many American and European businesses are putting their top men in China, because they want a piece of China.
Don’t forget the pet food recall - high dollar brands killing animals!
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I read an article in the Wall Street Journal recently (w/in the past month) that indicates that there may be an enormous Chinese-made tire problem. The tires were allegedly manufactured without gum strips, threatening tread separation with possibly lethal consequences. The tires haven’t been recalled because the importer claims it can’t afford to recall them, and also claims that the Chinese manufacturer is stonewalling it and refusing to tell which tires have the problem. I’m afraid that I don’t have an electronic (only paper) subscription to the WSJ, so can’t supply links. Perhaps someone else can find it and send it to you.
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How about a list of all the products made in the USA, Canada, and Mexico that had been recalled for one reason or another. Surely the number of American-make (GM, Ford, Chrysler) vehicles should equal the total number of dollar store junk from China recalled? Plus faulty cars exploding, catching fire, running into things cause more damage to people or property than eventual possible lead poisoning.
well said. when things are fine everyone’s happy with saving a few bucks in buying chinese products, or CEOs getting fat by opting for chinese suppliers. then all of a sudden chinese goods became the evil? how about those importers who neglected their own inspection? or government agencies responsible for testing consumer products? why nobody ask the question on why and how the importers and government agencies let the product out in the market in the first place?
isn’t it the american government’s job to serve and protect the american public? so don’t put all the blame on the cheap labors over in china, instead, blame the corporates who elected to not pay them a decent wage and make them proud of what they do.
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I don’t think people should take this story too seriously. The author’s just trying to point out that when you do all of your business over thousands of miles, mistakes can and will be made, often with dire consequences.
That, and the fact that those Chinese sure do love putting lead in everything.
I respect the fact that whoever posted this wanted everyone to know but I’d also like to point out that this is the result of poorly paid labor.
Say if you wanted a car but you didn’t want to pay a lot for it. Say you paid $2. You’d get a toy car slightly bigger than your thumb.
And now so many Americans are complaining about the economy and the loss of jobs. Yet, so many or their superiors don’t care! They’re like ‘we need cheap labor. Let’s go to China.’ Don’t complain about poorly made products cause you aren’t paying their money’s worth.
“Aww! The workers aren’t getting paid enough!”
The employers raise wages to quell public complaints…and voila. The public complains back about how expensive things are getting. And then the U.S. decides to go to another country for cheap labor. Tis quite a paradox.
Don’t complain about it. Pretty much everything in your home is from China. Or at least made in China. You just can’t seem to accept that your life is good enough. You have a deficiency orientation. I can seem some traces of egotism already.
I’d also like to point out that many of these products are just useless. And the way you present this shows slight exaggeration.
O no! Only one person in AMERICA!!!!! Think about everyone else who has to suffer. You’re lucky to be living like this in America. If you haven’t read that issue of TIME magazine a few weeks ago, you’d know that what you make in an hour can feed a family in another country for a week if not a month in some cases.
Stop focusing on just China and get a grip on reality.
This shit happens everyday in different forms. It’s an eye for an eye. In this case, poor pay for poor labor.
Don’t forget that much of the money we pay Chinese companies (and the technology they need to make stuff) is skimmed off to finance a formidable military. Although they are still “friends” currently, they are still communists.
why doesn’t things that come from china have to meet any special critiea?? whats up with our goverment letting this happen??what are our politician doing about it??are we that stuipd that we can’t see that there doing this on purpose especially with so many things!!!!!
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Well what do you expect? Pay them peanuts and you get shoddy low quality junk.
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Rather curious that so many of the products listed here are children’s toys painted with lead-based paint and clothes with buttons, and such, containing dangerous levels of lead in the mix; especially when the world has known for 30 or more years that lead, ingested by pregnant mothers, causes birth defects in unborn children and is a major impediment to their mental development during adolescence.
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Are they trying to KILL us? I think they are… come on now, hiding it in overalls?
WE DO NOT NEED TO BUY EVERYTHING FROM CHINA.CHINESE PRODUCTS HAVE TOTALLY FLOODED THIS COUNTRY.IN ADDITION TO DESTROYING OUR ECONOMY,CHINA USES AMERICAN DOLLARS TO BUILD THEIR MILITARY.DO YOU THINK THEY MAY WANT TO BECOME A SUPER POWER?LETS GIVE THEM THE MONEY AND FIND OUT.
what
Thats mass production for you!
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An embargo against China isn’t going to do much unless we also punish the idiots in America who order and import this kind of merchandise.
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hey. read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. it’s a story about the terrible squalor of American manufacturing at the turn of the century. it’s an american classic, but we can’t really expect ourselves to be familiar with our own nation’s literature. raise your hand if you’ve read something that’s more than a week old.
i thought so.
quality control is something all developing nations struggle with, and yes, believe it or not america was a developing nation once, with the same problems and the same stigma. contrary to popular belief jesus didn’t wave a magic wand and poof -america.
so this is not a question about race or culture as the powers that be would have you believe- it’s a question of class. developing nations and developing industries etc. the only silver lining is that today we have the internet and the push for chinese quality control is so much more apparent and by virtue of instant communication- more eagerly remedied.
not fifty years ago your parents probably ate hotdogs that had all kinds of shit in it. ears, chicken beaks and fingernails. there are still houses in america that have the “lead is poisonous…” warning on it. some buildings still have asbestos. what are you going to do, move to fucking canada?
be careful, but don’t blow this out of proportion.
and for all those people who are going to comment on geopolitics (china’s a war machine etc.) read the newspaper once in a while and find out who’s the biggest military hegemony in the world.
i’m an american citizen, but i’m also chinese. i love both countries and the future is big enough for everyone. put down your tv dinner, step off your lawn in to the street and grasp the knowledge that is so freely available to you.
fear and ignorance are the only enemies.
Heh … sometimes it’s the typos that are the entertaining part of the article. Let’s all head down to the local Crack Barrel & get some dangerous (or dangerously overpriced) merchandise.
@Richard, We understand your passion but typing a message in caps is considered rude and insulting - online it is the equivalent of yelling.
ITS WAR! except instead of attacking the ones responsible, they are attacking our children, our future, its CHEMICAL WARFARE!!! if im full of it, then why all the lead in all the kids toys?? cripple our health system by infecting the children…. spread sickness to the innocent…. *screams GENOCIDE*
…and of course chinese airgun rifle, B3, called in Poland “fingercutter”, ’cause few accinents during loading a pellet.
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Obnoxious, way obnoxious. Get over yourself, everyone else isn’t a hillbilly you snide booch. If you really loved this country, you might find something wrong with lead in kids toys being sold by corrupt Chinese - so you are pretty much full of shit right then and there. The Chinese are so crooked it’s ridiculous, and your stuck up attitude and bullshit won’t change that fact.
We install hydraulic systems on commercial vehicles. We were recently supplied with Chinese pneumatic tubing and valves. All have failed in less than 1 month. Customers lost so far = 2
agree wholeheartedly that we shouldnt buy “made in china” merchandise. the fisher price recall was the proverbial straw for me. im boycotting EVERYTHING!
but, it is just as much, if not more, the responsibility of these American companies that outsource and manufacture products in China.
do they not test for lead before their products go on the market??
shame on fisher price and mattel for letting my child come in harms way.
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If everyone stopped buying products made in China everything would be shipped to Burma. Then we would have problems with products coming out of Burma. Look buying products made in a third world country is never ever safe. So why on earth should we continue to let American countries operate in third world countries? Okay its too expensive to operate in the Us. Fine, but why not Ireland? Or Greenland….. OR we could just pay more instead of Less and have everything made here. Yes the poor will have less. But what would own won’t be piles and piles of garbage like they do now. They will instead have a few nice things rather than a house full of junk that will retard or worse kill their children. You get what you pay for.
no one seems to mention that this is communist china, an enemy.
You are only as strong as your weakest link.
There is much truth to that statement. I would like to hear less arguments that state something like, “some Chinese products are good.” My response is, so what? They regulate none of it, inspect little of it, so I say boycott all of it.
Respect to all
M
We bought and paid for these problems by allowing American manufacturers to lay-off American workers so they could build factories in China and other foreign countries and make huge profits by paying for cheap labor there. We are paying for it twice–first, by American workers losing manufacturing jobs, and second, by allowing products into this country that are health and safety hazards because they come from countries that don’t regulate their products the way the United States does. We wanted cheap products and like the saying goes, “YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!!!”
Has anyone thought that this maybe a terrorist plot?
I just tested mini blinds that have been in our house for over 12 years. They came with the house. Guess what….positive lead. Trashed them and alot of other stuff from China and are now having my children tested for lead poisoning levels. This isn’t something recent …China has been putting lead in things for over twenty years and we’re too stupid to care. It has been widely known since 1978 that lead is the cause of serious mental deterioration. No excuses…China has known and we’re the dumb ones.
It always takes a disater to bring attention to anything. Well, I will tell you a disaster before it happens. Counterfeit electronics being sold in China. Most appear to be in the SCHENZEN area. What will it take before this problem is taken seriously. An airplane falling from the sky? Perhaps a missle hanging a u-turn in flight. I’m telling you, something must be done as these parts are being bought and sold all over the world. Not just commercial parts but Military spec parts. Then and only then will the media jump on the bandwagon. Looking for someone to help expose this serious problem BEFORE it becomes “fashionable” to jump on the bandwagon.
I’ve been leary for a long time but recently was grocery shopping and had garlic powder on the list. Don’t know what compelled me to look at the label, but I did and was shocked to discover in very fine print that McCormick’s garlic powder was a “Product of China”. Like I feel comfortable buying some offwhite powder from China to put in my tomato sauce. If this were some Brand-X, or if it was in the 88 cent rack at the Dollar Store, I could understand, but McCormick’s has been reputable US brand for as long as I can remember, and for $4.99 for 3 oz. I’d expect something grown in the US. Did we stop growing garlic in the US? So long McCormick.
Made in China…. More than just a recall, it’s a wake-up call! Recently Trump published a book called, “Why We Want You To Be Rich” sending a message that medicare, social security, and products made in different countries are creating major problems for the USA. If you aren’t concerned with these issues that we face today, you will be eventually when you are faced with the decisions that you will have to make for yourself and your loved ones down the road. Hopefully, we won’t have to be concerned if we take care of the problems now instead of later. And if you don’t particulary like Trump, Dateline is a good source for info. They just had a story on that investigated prescription drugs sent from China to the USA. It was shocking to find out what they were making prescription drugs with- knowing (People of All Nationalities) were going to be taking the drugs. Talk about cruel…almost as bad as Hitler in a way. I would rather die quickly than slowly.
I refuse to buy the products of any company that sells this dangerous junk. It is clear they put profit ahead of safety. Mattel can now be added to that list.
About 7 years ago I was assembling a number of computer desks from kits that came from China. There was a white powder coating the parts that made me sneeze. Made me believe that with China’s lax manufacturing/worker protection standards, they could be sending us products tainted with anthrax, or anything…
It’s their responsibility to regulate their manufacturers, not ours. But I guess now we will have to check anything that comes from another country.
I’m not buying products from China again, if I can help it.
Now I hear that if we start imposing stricter standards on their products, they’ve threatened call in our debt to them. Is it true that 40% of America’s national debt is owed to China? How did our country get so screwed? Give you one guess…Mr Borrow and Spend!
Buy toys made in the US and Europe instead. Believe it or not, there still are toy manufacturers here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/business/15toys.html
Those toys may cost more, but think how much you’ll save when your kid gets a college scholarship because he didn’t get stupid from eating lead.
I read an article recently that says American Manufacturers care more about packaging their goods against damage for transport from China to North American than they do about the workers in China. The article included pictures of young people with mangled hands resulting from unsafe workplaces. We consumers only care about cheap prices, not cheap lives. Unfortunately, I’m guilty.
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Yes, there have been many defective products made over the years, some with terrible consequences. The difference between these and the defective stuff from China is that the Chinese mfgrs knowingly diddle the formulas - for instance, they knew not to put lead in the paint but did it to skim a profit. How do we know it was done with intent? Because the guys commit suicide when caught!
Look, putting poisonous or useless ingredients in products to make a tiny additional profit shows a complete lack of regard for human life - like that’s a surprise coming from China!
I got rid of ALL of my cooking and eating utensils that were from China (about 90%). it has been almost impossible to replace them — almost everything in the stores is made in China, no matter what the brand — I repeat NO MATTER WHAT BRAND. Every corporation has simply become a marketing image to package the poison and then recall it if caught.
I also wonder how does anybody have a manufacturing job anywhere in the world, other than China?
Scary, really scary
From toxic lead paint on children’s toys: bacteria and viruses in plush stuffed toys: deadly chemicals and toxins in food: deadly chemicals and toxins in; plastic, vilyl, nylon, -cooking utinsils - toothbrushes/floss - and other everyday use products.
Seems like their trying to kill us?
The lead paint, however, is being purposely added to destroy our brain cells so we all think like good little socialist democrats, their kind of people!
(Think/meaning-not for ourselves!)
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It’s amazing that the US refuses to deal with Cuba telling their people that the communist country is a threat, yet China is becoming their biggest trading partner, and Wal-Mart and Costco’s biggest supplier. We’re going to regret this trend in the future, dealing with a government that couldn’t care less about copyrights, business ethics, worker rights/health/safety, the environment or what they put into their products. Just wait until their produce takes over our shelves (because most of it is banned in Europe and Australia).
You know whats funny?
Americans who demand a boycott of Chinese products.
If there was a real boycott of all Chinese products in the US the economy would collapse entirely. Most businesses would close.
And the average US home would get very, very empty, very very fast.
For starters, none of these fools would be posting any comments on the net, because they WOULDNT HAVE COMPUTERS.
All you US people calling for a boycott of Chinese goods, take a look around you. Screaming Fox news style for an impossible boycott is very nice, but maybe what you should be screaming for instead is for some American-based manufacturing. And the people you should be screaming at are all the corporate pigdogs who have moved your business overseas.
There are many American produced goods that can supplant those produced in China. However, US citizens refuse to buy them because of cost no quality or otherwise.
The same goes for high-gross imports like cars. Though many car imports are coming from Japan instead of China, they have flooded the market and absolutely wrecked the US economy. People percieve Japanese cars as having better better quality, and no matter how much quality or design, or luxury US car manufacturers put into their cars, Japanese cars are yet AGAIN more appealing because of the cost.
I feel that a boycott could be a plausable course of action with more emphasis on corporations staying at home and producing.
Of course, as I said, there are many products from countries following international standards for production and exportation of goods, the US simply must consume more of those goods instead.
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, I remember the phrase “BUY AMERICAN!”. Little did we know, we had the first word misspelled, “BYE AMERICAN!”
Forced Programs like Affirmative Action, “helped” kill our competitiveness. Companies need to hire someone based only on their abilities and qualifications which will streamline production and quality, therefor translating into lower costs, higher profits and positive global competition for our superior quality products- -once again!
Also, overtaxing working people and giving Millions of dollars in “Corporate Welfare” to BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATIONS (Oil for instance) who in turn rape the American consumer, needs to be stopped.
china has proven itself to be dangerous. He wants to kill other races thru its chemical soak products. What can we benefit from this communist country? why do we patronize dangerous products which find their way in the international market? Because of their cheap price but dangerous effect? Let the chinese eat their own chemical soak products, and not other races.
To hell with all china dangerous products. We should not patronize them. They kill mankind, the way they kill their own babies by abortion.
Well I guess the list has to be updated to include August now. Of course this list is only the icing on the cake. I am sure if I took my cellphone to get it’s coating analyed it has lead paint also but who cares since it doen’t belong in ones mouth. As for their products they have no name brand companies themselves known worldwide for high quality standards. They only produce for others mainly the US, Europe, and Japan. It is the companies from these countries that have to ensure their products are properly manufactured. The Chinese don’t care since it isn’t a Chinese brand product they are spraying that lead paint on. Many more people are checking labels now and looking for not made in China products. There are some websites out there and a large business has just opened offering products only made in the US and Europe. What a great selection of items. Prices higher of course but you pay for what you get. And yes toys, shoes, televisions, tools along with other electronic items from Germany and England, clothing and food from Italy and France, tires and many other items from the US. What a breath of fresh air this is!
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So who do we blame, Chinese Communists who use prisoner labor and poisonous materials, or the Greedy USA Capitalists who would rather sell you a $1.00 item thats impregnated with lead than a safer product that costs $1.25.
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Beware; Food made in Chine; I bought frozen organic spinach under the name Woodstock Farms, Dayville CT, Swojcik@unfi.com Shannon Wojcik Marketing Assc. Under the name of United Natural Brands. Cert Organic by Quality Assurance International. How can this be?
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MADE IN CHINA ..
That’s code for
“RED ARMY NEEDS ANOTHER BULLET”
You Special boy .
this seems like a persuasive scapegoat towards china
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Some of you (i should say very few of you) see the bigger picture. Americans buy China’s crappy products, China uses this capital to build a missiles to point at USA, China buys important USA companies (like Union Oil), China has caused all building materials to skyrocket (copper , steel, aluminum, even concrete). Doesn’t take a genuis to figure out where this is going to end up. The good news is they are about 50 years behind in military technology. So we will be a bankrupt country with alot of firepower. The USA still does one thing better than all the others combined….WAR!
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China is a country of peasants where the government officials are nothing more than a bunch of spolied children. The corruption here is unimaginable. Boycott anything chinese and support human rights.
WOW! The Chinese are seriously trying to kill us.
I say we all stop buying Chinese made products, and import lead containing products to them!
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I am sick to death of chinese-made products. They are junk, and most of the time, they don’t work or they stop working shortly after purchase. I read that after one death related to some chinese-made crap in Australia, and they have banned the import of chinese-made goods. When is this country (USA) going to get a brain and stop importing the junk from China???? Maybe we should have our own factories, manufacturing our own stuff by our own people????? This global thing is ridiculous!!!!!
I couldn’t agree more with those who want to boycott made-in-china. Whenever I’ve needed to buy something and I’ve found out the only one available was made in china, I’ve had to literally go through several of them to find the one that is the least junky. I am sick of this. I want our Manufactured-with-pride-in-the-USA labels back!! Bring the jobs and the pride back to the US, stop feeding the economic foreign dependency machine, and no doubt this will make us all safer and healthier in the long run. Demand better quality, and don’t pay ANYTHING for a trashy product. Indeed, if there is an American made alternative I buy it every time, but what disgusts me is that 99% of the time there is not that alternative.
My other point: Some would call my attitude towards this issue china bashing. Damn straight. If the shoe fits, wear it. I make no apologies whatsoever for bashing inferior products or their sources, and china is at the top of the shitlist (for all-too-obvious reasons) and china squarely deserves all the blame and the shame that’s coming their way these days. I don’t believe that designers in our first-world nation design their toys and foodstuffs to contain poison and filth. The problem lies with the low standards that certain chinese producers have, and they get away with this because they can–they know we are dependent on them and our FDA is a joke, so we are at their mercy.
Ultimately, it’s all about standards and what you’re willing to pay for quality, and conversely how low you’re willing to stoop for cheap, inferior products. We as a nation will pay the consequences in the long run for our choices today.
Search “McDonald’s Supply Chain in China” and check out the article that talks about importing produce for McDonald’s USA from CHINA. YES, I SAID MCDONALD’S IS IMPORTING FOOD FROM CHINA!!! When I e-mailed McD USA and asked what items were being imported, specifically, so I could avoid eating them…their response was “we do not use items included in the ban.” They never answered my questions or let me know what NOT to order.
I wonder how many other restaurants are doing this….it is SCARY!!!!
Most of our food is made in China and other countries.Even 90% of our popular breakfast cereals are made in China,shipped back to us to be packaged.Apple juice:the concentrate is made in China,shipped back to us,add the water,package it and voila: Made in USA.
Lead in KNOWN to be poisoning us,our children.China is not stupid,they know the problems associated with lead.They don’t care.They don’t care about their own citizens,why would they care about ours??Some say”Because they would lose their American/Canadian business.” Not true.These large corporations who ARE importing this crap don’t care about the citizens either.Bottom line/dollars are all that matters.They will still buy the China crap,or some other crap rather than manufacture it here and pay us decent wages to do it!!
boycott chinese products!!!
This is because we have let our Goverment Offical’s tell us what we are going to do.
We have believed them for too long unless we take it back and start protesting the leaving of all the Jobs they took from us.
We have given all our jobs to other countries and imported there workers here to take the rest of the jobs American people have become too lazy to think that job was beneath them.
America is not what it used to be we used to take pride in what we did. We grew our own food and sold the rest to China and all the other countries, we made our own steel and sold the rest to the other countries. We were making our own cloths here and towls and all kinds of other things and we never had the high unimployment that is now. They cover the amount of unimployed now cause there are people who have runn out of there unimployement and are setting on the street’s. America is loosing every day and if we don’t stand up and say enough is enough then we need to fall.
All of our children diserive better all they are getting is a big pile of shit left to them to streaten out. Believe me when I say unless you are down in the dirt with the rest you will not see it comming untill it hits you in the face.
There are people who are afraid of the Idea of making our goverment own up and change it back to us working for US that they will do nothing to change it.
We have become one nation Under China and all the other Foren countries we alow in here to take over.
Don’t cry when it hits your door cause it is comming fast you need to wake up.
We Need ONE NATION UNDER GOD AGAIN, NO matter what you believe no matter who you are If you are an AMERICAN you need HIM BACK.Then we need to take AMERICA back.
I Say boycott every thing not made in AMERICA and not made by AN AMERICAN. Because if it is made here give the jobs to the people who need it.
AMERICAN’s.
The USA has lost it competitiveness in the world market. Furthermore America is unable to manufacture products thanks to the U.S. Congress by allowing companies to out source jobs and services. We are destroying our economic future by creating nation of poor people who are being paid with low wages and struggling to purchase the products.
New jobs are being replace with low paying ones and a college education is a joke since employers need high school educated workers or illegal workers.
What happen to MADE IN AMERICA !!!!
Twenty Years Ago everything were made in America now it is possible to find anything made in America. Corporate America need to resume the manufacturing process in this country again. This will create more jobs in every sector of the country thus wiping out the Federal deficit in the budget and improving Social Securtiy.
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It’s a bit easy to blame all your product recalls on China when China makes all your products. If I were China though I won’t be too worried, once you completely conquered the American market, it’s going to take a lot more propaganda to dethrone that 80%.
Let’s just all boycott Made-In-China, there might be massive inflation and our economy will be destroyed overnight, but at least we will be happy in the thought that at least China lost 20% of their exports. Be patriotic, freedom does not come without price, we need to fight the evil communists to the end even if it means becoming a third world country.
Don’t forget, everything might be made in China, but they are all still invented in the US, manufacturing is a thing of the past, the US need to focus on what it does best: innovation.
Of course in 20 years that will be overtaken by China as well, but more reason to enjoy it while it lasts.
china suck they jerks and make junky stuff
i want to know which chemicals are ban or prohibited in china for export and the chemicals going to ban in 2008. we want to import them immediately. could any one help me to supply the list of chemicals going to ban in china?
thanx,
lubna bashir
lubna_sher@yahoo.com
mb dyes chemical and silk ind pvt ltd. pak
I have a new set of jumper cables that caught fire as we tried to use them. The polarity was absolutely correct, no fault there, but was traced to poor connections at the clip end which prevented the DC current from going into the other battery. I have the cables and I can absolutely prove what happened. So much for Chinese electrical products.
The Peoples Republic of China is an enemy of the United States. Plain and simple. They know they cannot beat us militarily, so they will destroy us from within. They have some very smart people who know how to take advantage of the greed and shortsightedness in the West. Their cheap labor and manufacturing is subsidized by their government for the sole purpose of acquiring technology and shutting down the industrial complex and destroying the economy of the United States. Their aim is also to pollute and contaminate our food products and consumer goods. Don’t look to the government for protection. The legislators are all in bed with the scum who is profiting from this fiasco. The only way to fight back is to boycott Chinese-made goods if possible and sue the crap out of the importers if you suffer a loss and get hurt.
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We had a brand new lamp from China that short circuited and smoked. We have two cheap quads made in China that broke within 6 months of purchase. The clutch spring broke on the Baja. The Buyang had the bolts rattle out of it and the back axle bearings failed. I would never buy anything mechanical from China again. I’m afraid to eat anything that comes from China now since hearing of their numerous dangerous products that have made it into our country.
It seems like there is a new product recall everyday. I am especially concerned about all the recalls on children’s toys and household products. I set up a personal file that alerts me to all product recalls and it sends me a timely notice when one of my products has been recalled.
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Do you people have even the slightest idea about how much your standard of living would go down by, if you really did ban/boycott/decide to avoid Chinese products?
I think not, before beating your collective breasts about superior American manufacturing etc.. do you own stocks in American companies that have off-shored?
Quit blaming the CEO’s they are reponsible for creating wealth for the shareholder, who is the shareholder? American citizens.
I have always said ‘vote with your wallet’ stop buying American stocks.
http://www.lamanaphotography.com/walmart6.htm
Look at these sandals - is this just bad manufacturing - or chemical warfare?
!!Are You NUTS” NO CHINESE CARS In AMERICA. I wouldn’t touch one of the sons of B****es 39 and half pole. Yugo cars are MADE Better-Russian cars are like IRON
Prior to the Holidays, my wife and I purchased a new digital camera. Of course, it is nearly impossible to find such a product still made in the USA; however, many cameras are made in Japan and a few are made in Europe. We told the salesperson we would accept a camera from Japan; but, stated a Chinese made product was unaccepatble. The salesperson did some research and showed us a Canon camera that would fit our requirements and assured us the camera was made in Japan. I looked at the label and sure enough, it said “Made in Japan”. We completed the purchase and took the new camera home.
When I opened the box, and pulled out the lens, it was clearly marked “Made in China”. I called the dealer and was told to bring the camera back. The salesman’s reply to my concern was, “The camera (body) was made in Japan, I never said the lens was not made in China”. We made another selection and this time, the entire camera, body & lens, was indeed made in Japan.
This past Saturday, we visited a department store “where America shops” witht the intent to purchase a treadmill. We told the salesman we did not want any treadmill that was not made in America. The saleman asked another employee where the treadmills were made and he quickly assured us they were all made in the USA. In fact, he had toured the plant himself and saw them being made. We purchased a Nordic Track model and arranged for delivery and set up.
It was deliverd today and upon reading the owner’s manual, I noticed it was “printed in China”. I needed to record the serial number, so I looked the unit over until I found the ID tag and sure enough, it plainly said “Made in China”. I called the salesman and asked why my wife & I were lied to. They are coming to the house to pick up this “Chinese piece of junk” and take it back!
Hot Garden Fountain Freak…
Although i totally disagree with you, i still appreciate you\’re post. (but you\’re wrong here
)…
Its’ taken 200+ yrs to get to our great dominate role
in the world and is being destroyed in less than 20 by
GREED base corps and politicians.
We are @ their mercy…..if ever a war or wrldwar we
hvae no more manufacture base!! Where is the pride
of people to see if the product made could be fellow citizen.Chk and demand made in US the futre depends onit
besides their products are inferior junk that looks fancy.
Look people, if you don’t like made in China products then STOP buying it then! No one is telling you that you HAVE to buy it. If any of you people would actually do some research before opening your big mouths you would understand the “crappy chinese products”.
People are poor. What do Americans call min. wage? $7.50? Take a wild guess what large companies like Fisher Price pay each worker in china?
They work less than a dollar a day. Where are they going to get that damn money to make all your stupid fancy stuff that you want at the price that you want?!
They’re over there competing for jobs just enough to survive. Barely passing two decent meals a day. And what do you eat? How many times do you eat a day? They can’t complain or they’ll lose their jobs. How many times a day do you complain about your damn job, or that crappy old ass car, or that stupid tiny house you live in, or how bland your food taste?
Oh yeah, I forgot to say one more thing, the value of the US dollar is dropping. So for all you people who are going to buy stuff from Europe, good luck at your job. Don’t complain too much because your will fire your ass.
It is not our problem how little they are paid in China. What is our problem? Our children and animals we care about and feed. What is made in America? Um, not much these days. Nope, it’s so much cheaper to have things made in any country but good ole USA. Thank your Government and ourselves for this happening. Yep, keep buying everything just to save a buck or we can finally shut up and buy what is made in USA (if you can find it).
I have finally gotten disgusted enough where enough is enough. What about anyone else? It’s easy to bitch about, but what about backing it up? How about inspiring people to buy from their own country and support the USA?
I totally support boycott of China products. It is difficult to do but it is possible. WE need to change perceptions and pocketbooks about US and China.
About once a week I receive e-mail alerts about either improperly produced or just flat-out fake medicines made in China. The latest one was about fake anti-malaria medicines that went out worldwide. It wasn’t like the ingredients weren’t refined properly or anything; the ingredients simply were not included. They sent out a PR release claiming it wasn’t an “authorized” manufacturer, but even the authorized ones are just horrible.
I have a number of Chinese friends who tell me that the Chinese govt allows local leaders **a lot** of control over companies in their areas–which just leads to cronyism, payoffs, etc., so the companies are never inspected or regulated. You fools think someone somewhere is inspecting this stuff. They’re not.
Also, a few years ago, a batch of vitamin A from China was tainted with Salmonella that was going to go into BABY FORMULA in Europe. Luckily a Swiss company tested their batches, caught the Salmonella before it could enter their market, and warned everyone else in Europe about it. The other countries tested their batches and some found it there too. SCARY!
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I have been on a no China products for a while. I am glad to see your site and appreciate all those who feel the same way. I hope someday we will bring production back to the USA and become that “Free Nation” that we were supposed to be. This constant dependence on other countries to supply our needs has been disasterious in every way. I say to all people whom I buy things from “Where does it come from”. I get a lot of flack from people saying “if it were made in the Us it would cost twice as much”. What they really mean is they wouldn’t be able to charge $15 for an item they paid $.50 for. Greed, it’s all been greed. I have heard the line too that states,”We want everyone to be able to afford everything”, All that has done is to create a larger poor class and a larger rich class, there are fewer middle class people. I am concerned about my toothpast and clothing, and food, and everything I have to buy to sustain myself. I am less concerned when I buy American made, and it makes me feel good that I am helping to pay a wage for someone to suport their family right here in America. Paula Curtis
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Not all products from China are substandard. I am supplying China made product to Malaysian telecommunication industry. Already 2 years in the market, with less problem compared when I am supplying european, or NZ or australian products. http://www.tpsmalaysia.com as my example.
Rgds!
I’ve always been suspicious about “made in China” products, because of their low prices, which means to me that if their manufacturing costs are low they might probably be using substandard raw materials for their production.
I think everyone everywhere should be careful about the quality of Chinese made goods - especially medicine, food, electronic equipment, electrical appliances, and toys.
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Products made in China possesess health hazard to many people.There ar many Americans who has Cancer and children with autism. American businessess should learn from this. First of all, think about this, China is a communitst country can you trust them?
Cheap is not good! There is russian example http://litemoney.blogspot.com/2008/05/5000.html - Dangerous Chinese Products in Russia
Don’t ask me why but maybe Marks & Spencer in England always sold goods “Made in the U.K.” and the quality was so excellent and clothes last so long (value for money), I know as I have a lot and some are over 10 years of age and as good as new virtually and yet products and clothes in M & S now are so cheap and the quality is not the same and many people are complaining about the lack of quality and do not like buying goods from the store any longer. It is awful how many companies are closing down and sending their work abroad to India, Japan and CHINA and so many people in this country etc are losing their jobs and who knows maybe having to sell their properties are they cannot get a job earning the same money etc.
It is about time this country realised that having so many products sent over to the U.K, America etc is not doing the environment any good.
Anyone who says, “what about other countries” and shit like that is copping out. Sure, we should worry about other countries, but the Chinese are currently the biggest threat to America, it’s citizens, it’s children, it’s environment, and it’s pets!! Fake Heparin (an anticoagulant used for reducing blood clots)what the hell is next (I believe that this came from China, as usual)!?! All jobs and products should have stayed in American where they were built way safer and more effective AND they actually help OUR economy (the idiotic and incompetent FDA is another issue). Please tell me what the hell can American citizens do to stop outsourcing, importing from retarded nations, and borrowing money from these countries with a wish to kill us due to our own current incompetent administration!?
I just read some of the other comments and boy are some people idiots, no wonder these countries get away with all this bullshit. America did not ever need Asian countries to survive (maybe other than Radioshack and Nintendo!). It is not necessarily American companies producing bad products, as it is the current American government outsourcing with no concern for it’s own citizen’s safety. America used to make good cars with real metal, until they gave it all away to Asian countries. Also, Asian spies stole computer chips from IBM many years ago that enabled them to produce “more effective” electronic crap. The American dollar means nothing anymore, because all these backward countries have a say in our economy (that many hard-working and caring immigrants helped to achieve for many years)due to the Bush administration and spending trillions on a bullshit war. We should have been looking for other renewable resources, we WERE an independent country for the most part. I am going to medical school, and it is disgusting how Asians, Indians, and other citizens from other countries can get a bullshit degree there and come to America and get these competitive jobs without barely knowing a word of english! Would all these countries give us these same opportunities (to basically medically kill people)?! China used to leave their baby girls out in the woods to die horribly, because they hated females in general, but all you people talk about how great they are and how they deserve to inherit America? All you hear about is Germany and the Nazis, but yet the Japanese just bombed Pearl Harbor in what 1942? Wait until some of you people are sick in the hospital with some foreign doctor who can’t spell “America” in charge of YOUR life, then tell me what to believe! I also worked for Social Services and immigrants receive full benefits without question, but if an American who broke his leg goes in for help (after working 20 years) they usually are not able to receive help, because they made too much money in the past! This country is all messed up now, and a huge improvement would be to bring America back to America and reinstate some benefits for American citizens who have worked for years, while getting screwed over to help other countries out. Maybe some of you people want to say this article is bullshit, but I appreciate this website for telling the TRUTH about a problem that needs fixing. Go cry somewhere else and double check the facts yourself, if it doesn’t compare every other country to your satisfaction, you’re just skirting around the issue and playing games.
One more thing, then stick a fork in me. Has anyone ever noticed how the adult cartoon South Park talks about relevant political issues in an almost hidden and very intelligent way? Please see Season 3: episode 310/Chinpoko Mon (remember all those garbage Pokemon toys, my kids will never own mind-numbing crap like that, I’d rather let them watch rated R HBO TV). It is very funny, but the implications are at least somewhat relevant. The description reads; The Japanese toy manufacturers have hidden anti-American messages in all their products, thereby enlisting children throughout the US to aid in completing their primary main objective of bombing Pearl Harbor……again. PS. I am sorry that China treats their own people like crap, but I must have forgot the nationwide vote where I could “get what I am paying for” by purposefully buying cheap, dangerous, Chinese garbage and thereby promoting the unfair treatment of the Chinese people.
And Tony Luthro f*cked & s*cked Brent Seaman/Stephens. Who killed his wife.
Gee, I wish I could say “I blew a murdering coward.”
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Tony now happily imports faulty chinese made electronic components that we use in our own military.
In our military!
What what happen to made in the usa? Should we just buy all our weapons from them as well?
Which makes me think, why did we bother fighting communism back in the past?
Ban importation of anything chinese. Period.
I happen to be a foreigner living in China. I have been out there and bought their toys. Yes, sorry, but they are junk and very unsafe. I have found that unfortunately, all those toys that contain high amounts of lead and have sharp parts, pieces that break and cause harm, etc…you know, all the stuff that was pulled from the lines. Well, its still being sold. It gets sold to all the thousand of shops strewn all over China. I have completely stopped buying any childrens toys because of the numerous and unbelievable safety hazards. Not only the expats children are in danger, so are the local children. I hope that regulations get stricter here, and soon, for everyones sake. Yes, the states may have received some crappy product, but believe me, the worst is still kept over here folks. Don’t blame the workers. They are good people just trying to make an honest living, by making what they are told. Blame the bigwigs that own the companies !
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the chinese are tying to kill everyone that isn’t chinese, with their shitty-cheaply made product that are made from hazardous chemicals
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To all the idiots who are defending chinese products and/or complaining about other countries: No one is saying that China is the only country that produces dangerous products. But this is a “made in china” article. If you want to complain about mexico or some other country, then make your own website. As far as “HKMulligan’s” comment. No this info is not useless. dangerous goods are dangerous goods - period. It doesn’t matter how many other products were not recalled. Especially when these companies knew beforehand and kept selling them. There is no excuse for that.
Sorry Rick Tan, but you’re wrong. These are chinese companies (not U.S. based companies) that sell raw materials to U.S. companies or sell finished goods through U.S. distributors. Nice try.
I can’t believe people are defending a goverment that poisons it’s own people (as well as others), brutally represses dissidents, and is committing genocide in Tibet. Gimme a break. You can whine that other countries do the same thing, but I’m not defending those governments either. They all SUCK.
yeah, I live in Indonesia and our products are much better than those chinese shit! they all a big f*** deceivers & will undermine all countries in this world by sending their stupid uneducated cabbage face spread around the world to collapse your economic structure..
You know the bottom line is… We need to take back production of products for Americans. We have to monitor what is being sold to our citizens. ALL these imported items come from countries with horrid inspection regulations. NAFTA no SHAFTA thats what we are all getting when it coming to imported goods. Bring the companies home and start watching out for our products ourselves. Wow! What a concept work for Americans.
Al the the godless commies loving dems can piss and moan and blame Bush & Cheney all they want. The real criminal is Bill Clinton and NAFTA. Its funny how Wal-Mart, the biggest commie organization in the US is HQ’d in Arkansas, whre evil Bill Clinton was Gov. What happened to it being our job to bomb the yellow man back to the stone age. Instead we just throw American money and jobs at the dirty, godless bastards. We are letting these inferior bastards get the lead on us. It’s time for America to Kick Ass again and TAKE BACK WHAT IS OURS. F*%K the Sliny Commie Bastards. KILL A COMMIE FOR MOMMIE BETTER DEAD THAN RED!!! Its also painfully obvious that anyone here that actually supports the importation of inferior asian products to the U.S. is probably invested heavily in and profits obscenely from it. You greedy slobs will do anything for money. F&*c You and China to REAL AMERICANS HATE CHINA AND ALL OF IT’S DANGEROUS IMPORTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Made in China means that the product must be very rotten.
Only idiot buy the product what made in China.
I find it very concerning that there are so many products being recalled from China. Personally I don’t care how many products are produced verses how many are recalled. The fact that almost every month something is being recalled should be enough to cause alarm. We shouldn’t have to worry about our children getting sick from clothing or food.
Our dog got sick from chicken jerky made in China. There are a lot of chicken jerky products out there for dogs, the majority of which are Made in China. Watch out, since these 3 little words are usually in very small print on the back of packages of American companies which pack the toxic treats. We did find one that is made in America which our dog loves! I don’t know if its okay to post here but its called Kona’s Chips at www.konaschips.com
Also, check out Lacie’s Site at www.laciessite.org for some really sad stories on dogs who have died and become seriously ill from chicken jerky from China.
If you are feeding your dog a chicken jerky product, check the package for those deadly 3 words!
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I just bought some halloween gummy candies to decorate a halloween cake for my grandchildren, once I got home I noticed that they were all made in China! I can’t use them only to find out after my loved ones have eaten them that they should have been recalled. When one country has sent out so many inferior and poison products why would our country still allow those products to be sold in our stores? Is it because all Chinese products are sold at discount stores and our elitest leaders don’t care what happens to the poorer citizens? I personally will check for the origin of every product before I purchase it from now on and I will be boycotting China.
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There is only one way to make the point to the chinese
and that is not to buy their products.
The only thing that will make them sit up and take notice is a large reduction in their sales revenue,
Since the milk problem was known about ,in china, about
11 months ago and not disclosed or ignored then one can assume that derivatives of the milk powder are throughout the food chain.
Rod
If a country had such a poor track record of dangerous
products you could, under normal circumstances, assume that the USA would ban all imports from that country ?.
However since the Chinese are financing a large part
of the 10 Trillion Dollar American Debt (Yes I did mean Trillion) the Americans dare not say anything
to the Chinese.
In Philippines, its our time to give our attention now to our native products. we know its more safe and no chemical contaminated unlike those dangerous chinese-made products. The chinese people (the government and whoever makes the products) should be more attentive and alert in making products that they will import so that it not only help and secure every consumers’ health, but as well as the good stability of their business.
I have found various products made in China to emit a strange chemical odor….heating pads, Christmas ornaments made of plastic,etc. Someone needs to be checking to see what the chemical is. Chemical warefare???
I am boycotting products made in China as I do not like China’s polical leadership. I do not know why we are supporting such a horrible country.
Many of their products contain poison and due to the greed of American retailers they are presented to the public.
I do without alot of things as so many products are made in China. The consumer does not have a choice with the origin of the products he/she is searching for. Try finding ladies sleepware at TJ Max, Marshalls or Ross’s that is not made in China. Its really awful how so many products have flooded the market from China with our polical leaders blessings.
I was very concerned that the UL logo and ETL logo were on some of these products. I am learning to be an electrician and the UL logo has always been considered to be sacred. Someone is asleep at the switch.
All your phones, computers and ipods are made in china. And $300 could support a poor chinese family for a year. I dare you chinese product haters to boycott these goods for year year and see where it gets you. Go on, I dare you.
They weren’t always in the past, you f***ing idiot, Jeanie. Have you been paying attention?, actually who cares about you-you suck. Actually many technological products were made in Japan in the past and they were better quality. All of you whineasses like you, Jeanie, should be shot into space or buried in a lead filled Chinese landfill so we don’t have to hear your loser dumba** thoughts. What, too hard to buy American/European? Why would anyone buy something from a country that you basically know is going to harm your children or at the very least stop working correctly in no time? Why don’t you personally support the Chinese? My hypothesis is that you are a f***ing retard whom only cares about herself. I have been boycotting Chinese products for years, what are you gonna do about it? God forbid, someone support their failing economy by not buying products that will kill everyone and pollute the world-what are we thinking? Get a life you f***ing loser B****.
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the american companies provide specifications for the products to be manufactured in china, however, the chinese manufacturers are cutting costs by using cheap, but dangerous ingredients/contents. And they are misrepresenting to the USA companies that have employed them. USA companies have higher standards in producing products, the chinese producers ignored our requirements and sold “bad/contaminated” stuff. It all boils down to one thing……MONEY.
Screw China!!!!!! What I just read up there was not a list of Faulty products it was a record of Attacks!. Their engineers are smart enough to create their own alloys, machines and all the systems required yet they didn’t know lead was poisinous? Sound like BS to me. We can’t afford to be as ignorant as we are………..
I found this article after reading about the drywall from China emitting dangerous toxic fumes in Florida homes. Why bother getting CHEAP CRAP from China when it costs so much in the long run (not just in money but the lives of people and pets)?
Good call on that Bob & Rob! I had just seen info about the drywall too. How hilarious that before it was toxic lead and now it is toxic sulfur byproducts and wastes that America & other countries are building all their walls with! The funny thing is, usually both the American and the Chinese companies do not lose shit because it is very difficult to sue these companies because of many reasons like lawyers who are too scared to do their jobs when it counts and because “China is too far away”. I’ve heard this shit a lot, they are not too far away to send us bullshit products and kill all of us, but they are too far away to face the consequences. I think anyone responsible for any of these products should be put away for life for hurting thousands of people, if not millions. Here is a website on chinese (a synonym for toxic, cheap, & faulty products now) drywall: http://www.chinesedrywall.com/. Shoot them all.
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i start right away by expressing my revulsion towards state socialism (the term soviet means “socialist people”)which enslaved over half the planet by a form of colonialism more brutal and controlling than the monarchies they overthrew).the ideology sounds good to those who don`t care about individual rights and and are control freaks enough to want concentration and centralization of power, while claiming”this is for your own good”,when we all know this growth in government power always ends in systematic corruption(absolute power corrupts absolutely) -China is the perfect example.
The solution-STOP BUYING MADE IN CHINA crap.we should stop exporting our manufacturing jobs to the world’s worst violator
,there are many other asian countries who have far higher ethical and quality standards and could agree to actually buy(instead of copying)some of our manufactured goods in exchange.
We can actually precipitate a political collapse in the chinese regime if we can convince the G20 to cut trade with china-the anti free market protesters can go to hell-those are the assholes who if they gained control would imprison us in labour camps for saying anything politically incorrect.
they consider any economic activity wrong and people evil for not giving away their life savings to third generation welfare recipients .in short , they want to destroy our economic system and impose a cuba type lifestyle on us (why the f**k don”t they just move there?) when all we need is better ethical trade and banking rules to improve the system that people escape TO, not from!
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Hi All,
I came from Malaysian and I have been working in China for quality management for past 7 years. I fully agreed with all of your concerns on China products’ quality.
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