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Riddle Me This, Batman!

Friday, June 1, 2007

Someone needs to explain how diethylene glycol from Iran ended up in China, which ended up in toothpaste, which ended up in the US, which caused the FDA to check all the toothpaste shipments from China, which has caused Canadian officials to consider taking similar actions!

The escalating number of frightening and sometimes deadly incidents involving tainted products making their way from China into the world market is a riddle.

What is the reason? Is it for fun or profit?

Holmes loved a mystery; The Riddler taunted Batman. Countries importing tainted products from China may be wondering if the Joker sent them.

Mr. Cool and Excel toothpastes have been found to contain the poisonous chemical diethylene glycol used in antifreeze. The same chemical was found in cough syrup that killed 51 last year in Panama. The source of the cough syrup: Imported products from China.

Here is another riddle from China! When is a monkfish not really a monkfish?

The FDA warned consumers not to buy or eat imported fish labeled as monkfish. Why? Because it isn’t monkfish at all, it is puffer fish. Riddle solved!

US Government tests done after 2 Chicago-area people became ill after eat the puffer fish, which had been labeled monkfish. It turns out 282 boxes of the puffer fish were distributed in Illinois, California and Hawaii.

This is very serious business. Deadly serious for those using, consuming or feeding pets tainted products from China, or anywhere else for that matter.

China has a serious consumer confidence problem on their hands. Does anyone think sentencing Zheng Xiaoyu to death is going to shore up confidence in Chinese imports? Zheng, 63 is the former Director of China’s State Food and Drug Administration.

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