Re: China Boycott update, Friday 9 May 2008

"YaluRiverRosie" <kinkysr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:f219f84e-cb47-4a02-a2ad-c5be4ade5c78@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> My dear brother bought a made-in-China ceramic vase at a Target here
> in Madison, Wisconsin. Cost, $19.95.  But by the time he'd gotten
> home, the lead that was in the paint on the vase had somehow
> penetrated his skin and he died of a brain hemorrage within three
> hours.  Then, his wife took the vase back to the Target, but she, too,
> had a stroke that a later autopsy determined was caused by massive
> lead poisoining.  Later, four store stock clerks also died of lead
> poisoning after placing dozens of the vases on the shelves for sale.
> Is there no end to this?

The story, above, is perhaps more satire than actual. However, it is true 
that China has not at this time, developed a high level of product safety,

both in the people and in the institutions. It will some time before they 
reach the more acceptable levels that exist in developed nations. It has 
been re****ted, for example, that 76% of Japanese distrust food from China.

More and more that has become the perception worldwide. I, myself, check
all 
food sources, and try to avoid items that originate or were partly
processed 
in China. I do that for my own safety. I do not record that on a boycott 
list. it does not matter what China says, I decided myself.