Just a PR Move or Real Change in China?

It’s too soon to tell.  But CNN reports that a new food safety team is being formed by top Chinese government officials to tackle the nation’s safety and quality problems.   The recent scandals involving poison ingredients in pet food, deadly chemicals in cough medicine, antibiotics in seafood, and more, have damaged China’s reputation with consumers in the U.S. […]

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Next Time Let’s Sting the Food & Drug Counterfeiters

Today the New York Times reported that a joint sting operation by the FBI and the Chinese government has led to the bust of a sophisticated software piracy outfit in China.   Hundreds of millions of dollars in counterfeit Microsoft software were seized and 25 people were arrested. 
David Finn, an associate general counsel at Microsoft, credits […]

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Dangerous Drugs Lead to More Than One Death Sentence

According to the New York Times, Zheng Xiaoyu, the former head of China’s equivalent of the FDA who was recently executed for accepting bribes and allowing dangerous products to enter the Chinese marketplace, started out as a reformer but succumbed to temptation and accepted money and gifts from unethical manufacturers seeking a way around safety regulations. […]

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You Get What You Pay For

In the midst of a slew of stories of product recalls and dangerous goods coming from China, USA Today reports that China’s trade surplus is at an all time high.  The imports are pouring in faster than ever and the safety checks are not keeping pace, yet we continue to buy.  And the reason, naturally, is […]

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Support Senator Schumer!

There are a few people in Washington who want to take action now to stem the tide of deadly products and make us safer.  Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is one of them.
What follows is an excerpt of Sen. Schumer’s press release from July 1, 2007.  (Read the full text here.)  Please tell your representatives in […]

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Am I More Diabolical Than the Terrorists?

With each new account of dangerous products coming from China, I can’t help but think, if I were a terrorist, I would be setting up shop in China right now with a plan to rid the world of infidels by their own constantly consuming hand. 

The popular assumption seems to be that Chinese businesses are cutting […]

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