BR-Sorry I did not catch the sarcasm. I know awhile back the glycol stuff got swapped with glycerin, put in human toothpaste and some people, I believe in the Philippines died.

Thank you

Did you read about the little beads for the kids to make crafts with? The Chinese put another product on them as a sealer, because it was cheaper. It turns into the date-rape drug when ingested from the beads or the sweaty little hands.

Well the grandkids found some little beads at the park last week and wanted to keep them. We had to insist they throw them all away and go wash their hands!!

That’s a little, uh, disturbing, given the notice went out a couple of days ago.

many pharmaceutical ingredients that need to be blended into say a cough syrup are not water soluable- which they need to be in order to be effectively compounded. to overcome this problem they experimented with members of the glycol family and found it highly effective when something wouldn’t dissolve in water. they had no idea that what they ended up using- what we now know as antifreeze( this was i think the late 20s early 30s-it wasnt used as the common product as it is now but was a denzien of the chemistry lab. you dont want to know what was in a lot of those unregulated patent medicines and cosmetics of the time)- was deadly. children died. the man who helped formulate the product killed himself and the first food and drug act was passed forming the FDA as a distinct entity.

it would appear perhaps because of it’s cheapness that the chinese are using antifreeze to dissolve compounds- it is in fact an industrial solvent- this would explain it’s presence . that they’re using it in things meant to be consumed by animals and humans is outrageously vile and does indeed, despite all it’s girly whining, come under the FDA’s mandate. that it’s been largely found in products meant for animals has allowed them a giant loop hole .the laws governing animal feeds and pet foods are not as strict as for that meant for human consumption. but we know toothpastes and medications for humans have shown up on our shores with antifreeze in them. i fear a raft of humans are going to have to die-middle to upper class americans( as it seems poor people can be subjected to the dollar store antifreeze toothpaste and it was a mere , forgotten blip)- before something is done. it leaves me speechless-it’s unconscionable- but such is the power of big business to flout laws,murder and turn a democracy into an autocracy dedicated to the f’ing dollar. i am largely a libertarian however when it comes to this sort of wanton disregard for aafety and life i have to say the government should be expected to go in and knock some damn heads and put an end to this insanity.

As for ‘country of origin’ labels… last I heard George was against them because he said they’d cost too much. Ghee… he wouldn’t want to interfere with the China to U.S. trade deficit by informing consumers of where their products are coming from, would he? … more sarcasm.

Yet, USA still has their PORTS open, freely accepting all products. I’d like to SHOVE SOMETHING UP the PORTS!

I have also yet to see any pet food LABEL changes on canned food too. They get away with not putting “THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN”. If it’s not made in USA, they don’t have to put the country.

This is all INSANE! I want to give a BIG F U to all you money loving scoundrels out there, that don’t care SHIT for our pets!

Wonder why companies are so quick to tell us what to do with the tainted products? Which are worth pennies, basically? Because they are EVIDENCE!!!

Lemme guess, it’ll get lost in the holidays like everything else did last winter.

The Friday Syndrome, or TFS for those following along.