Contaminated baby milk, candy, food products and medication?

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• 1 Mrs. Cleavers Beaver // Sep 22, 2008

  Not soon enough, I have a $2000.00 vet bill for tainted pet food. It so hard to buy all made in America good b/c everything is from China. All I guess we can do as citizens it buy from America when possible.
  I keep forgetting this isnt an America only forum. So insert your country where I said America. I have noticed England makes the best BPA free bottles.

• 2 Obber // Sep 22, 2008

  The problem is hardly limited to China.

  “In fact, between 1982 and 1994 alone, there were 22 significant recalls of infant formula in the United States due to health and safety problems. Seven of these recalls were classified by the FDA as “Class I” or potentially life threatening.

  And the problem doens’t stop there. In the following we detail 9 recent recalls of formula. Recalls were made for all the well known companies, Nestle (Carnation), Abbott, Mead Johnson, Wyeth, Nutricia and more. Products were recalled for such things as contamination by Salmonella, Klebsiella Pneumoniae and bits of glass.

  Some of the recalls were huge, the recall of jarred infant formala by Mead-Johnson contaminated with bits of glass covered more than 102,000 jars. Recalls noted below were made for such well known products as Alsoy, GoodStart, Isomil, Nutramigen and Soylac.”

  http://www.breastfeeding.com/advocacy/advocacy_recalls.html

• 3 BraxOwl // Sep 22, 2008

  You do NOT want China to stop exporting goods to the United States. The majority of our goods are imported from China, and the majority of them are good, safe products. It just seems as if a lot of items from China are recalled because they supply us with so much-but, overwhelmingly, most of the items are safe.

  What needs to be done is that the procedures be adequately followed, testing products BEFORE they are in the hands of consumers, to make sure that there are no flaws that are dangerous. What the US government is failing to do is make people aware that not only did something go wrong in China (which happens elsewhere, as well) but that they failed to do THEIR task. It is easier to put the blame on China than to accept responsibility for their actions that also contributed to it.