Deal with china at your peril.
The gold meadl for cheating lying and deceit gioes to the Peoples Paradise
of Chicom
"Dr. Mengele" <kinkysr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Leave it to the Chinks that gave the world's children lead-laden toys
> to make and sell fake-branded TOOTHPASTE laced with antifreeze!
>
> Yep.
>
> NINETY-THOUSAND TUBES of the poisonous stuff was ****pped to the U.S.
> last year. Its ingredients cause liver and kidney damage.
>
> Chinese officials now, as then, just continue to shrug ... "What?"
>
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> "Criminal Charges Filed Over Poisonous Toothpaste"
>
> By Jacob Adelman
> Associated Press
> Friday, March 7, 2008; D02
>
>
>
> LOS ANGELES, March 6 -- Criminal charges have been filed against a
> company that prosecutors say im****ted and distributed nearly 90,000
> tubes of Chinese toothpaste containing a poisonous substance, L.A.
> City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo announced Thursday. A wholesaler that
> supplied local stores with the tubes was also charged.
>
> Selective Im****ts sold the toothpaste containing diethylene glycol to
> distributors nationwide between December 2005 and May 2007,
> prosecutors said. Vernon Sales is accused of buying some of the tubes
> and reselling them to Los Angeles stores.
>
> Diethylene glycol is a chemical used in antifreeze and as a solvent.
> Chinese manufacturers have used the chemical, known as DEG, as a
> cheaper alternative to glycerin, which thickens toothpaste. Exposure
> to DEG, however, can cause kidney and liver damage over time.
>
> Vernon Sales President Kamyab Toofer and Vice President Pejman Mossay
> were charged with 14 criminal counts each of receiving, selling and
> delivering an adulterated drug.
>
> Selective Im****ts President Frahad Nazarian and Vice President Yones
> Ghermezi were charged with two criminal counts each of receiving,
> selling and delivering products containing DEG.
>
> Each count carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000
> fine.
>
> The companies are liable for distributing the tainted product even if
> they had no direct knowledge of the risk because they were negligent
> in not ensuring the toothpaste was safe, Supervising Deputy City
> Attorney Jerry Baik said.
>
> Ghermezi said he had not seen the charges but was shocked by the
> filing. All the adulterated toothpaste was voluntarily pulled from
> shelves and from his Vernon, Calif., company's inventory eight months
> ago and destroyed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month,
> he said.
>
> "Everything we had was destroyed by the FDA," Ghermezi said. "I
> thought the file had been closed."
>
> Ghermezi said he supplied the toothpaste to Vernon Sales, also based
> in Vernon. He said his company never knowingly sold adulterated
> toothpaste and thought the product had FDA approval.
>
> "We didn't know of the ingredients of the toothpaste," he said. "We
> don't [have] any intention of hurting people."
>
> Vernon Sales did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
>
> The charges stem from an inquiry after the FDA confiscated some 70,000
> tubes of toothpaste delivered to the ****t of Long Beach in May, Baik
> said.
>
>
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20080306/AR2008030603618.html
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