• U.S. officials pushed products deemed unsafe by China
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[quote](Reuters) - When it comes to protecting consumers, American politicians in China don't always practice what they preach, unpublished U.S. diplomatic cables show. In 2007, two U.S. Congressmen privately admonished a Chinese official about the sudden spike in potentially harmful Made-in-China products being shipped around the world, according to a cable from the U.S. embassy in Beijing obtained by WikiLeaks and provided to Reuters by a third party. At the time, China was under fire from the United States and other nations for a host of toxic exports -- everything from lead paint in toys to poisonous chemical substitutes for ingredients in medicine and pet food. In August of that year, Mattel alone was compelled to recall 20 million toys that had been manufactured in China. Two years later, the cables show, the same U.S. Congressmen -- Mark Kirk, then a House Republican from Illinois, and Rick Larsen, a Democrat from Washington -- returned to Beijing, only this time they had an entirely different message. Kirk and Larsen asked Chinese officials to look the other way as an American company failed to meet regulations restricting the use of a toxic chemical in medical equipment sold to Chinese hospitals. The company, Baxter Healthcare, was making blood bags for intravenous delivery using polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic softener that has been banned in some other parts of the world. A chemical found in PVC has been shown to build up in humans, causing developmental defects in children, among other things. The European Union banned the chemical in question -- commonly known as DEHP -- from all household products this year. According to the diplomatic cables, China was seeking to do the same for its hospitals. Its regulators had already stipulated that new IV bags must be manufactured without PVCs. On behalf of Baxter, however, the two Congressmen pressed the Chinese commerce minister to buy time for the company, which was the third largest contributor to Kirk's 2008 reelection campaign. In 2010 he was elected a senator, filling the vacant Illinois seat left by President Barack Obama.[/quote] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/us-wiki-china-baxter-idUSTRE7287OR20110309[/url] Wow, dickish
Chinese make the best products that are safe. Only polystations and mcdonalds toys are specially trusted by great leader.
Corruptions a dangerous game.
damn how bad must the shit be that even china deems unsafe
I read this as China banning American products.
Well this is what you get when you have lobbying in government. It is really a form a bribery but not called as so.
[img]http://www.browse-tools.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/wicked-laser-arctic.jpg[/img] Yeah, totally safe.
Amazing, blood bags? Really?
because chinese totally dont make hazardous cheap shit
[QUOTE=Moose;28594701]because chinese totally dont make hazardous cheap shit[/QUOTE] You didn't read the article did you?
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