Category Archives: Tainted Products
Senators Introduce Children’s Jewelry Legislation
Senators Introduce Children’s Jewelry Legislation
Several prominent lawmakers are trying to stop the use of cadmium in children’s jewelry, following reports that Chinese manufacturers are liberally substituting the dangerous metal in place of safer alternatives, like zinc. The legislation, called the Safe Kid’s Jewelry Act, would ban cadmium, barium and antimony from jewelry marketed [...]
China finds 170 more tons of tainted milk powder
CARA ANNA, Associated Press Writer
BEIJING – The discovery has punched a 170-ton hole in China’s promises to overhaul its food safety system. Officials say they’ve found yet another case where large amounts of tainted milk powder from the country’s 2008 scandal that should have been destroyed were instead repackaged.
China ordered tens of thousands of [...]
More melamine-tainted milk products found in China
BEIJING – Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
The announcement calls into question the effectiveness of a crackdown launched by Chinese officials [...]
Toxic metal found in kids’ jewelry very dangerous
JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer
Cadmium is a soft, whitish metal that occurs naturally in soil. It’s perhaps best known as one half of rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, but also is used in pigments, electroplating and plastic.
Lab testing organized by The Associated Press shows that it also is present in children’s jewelry — sometimes at eye-popping [...]
RC2 Corp. to pay $1.25 million penalty for selling Thomas & Friends toys containing lead
Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Illinois firm agreed to pay a $1.25 million settlement for importing and selling Thomas & Friends children’s toys that contained lead levels above legal limits and risked sickening children.
In agreeing to the penalty settlement, RC2 Corp. denied that it knowingly violated federal law as alleged by the [...]
China executes 2 for role in tainted milk scandal
BEIJING – China executed two people Tuesday for their roles in a tainted milk powder scandal in which at least six children died and more than 300,000 became sick.
Zhang Yujun was executed for endangering public safety and Geng Jinping was executed for producing and selling toxic food, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
Their [...]
Feds To Release Second Chinese Drywall Report
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The federal government is set to release its second report on problematic imported Chinese drywall.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is leading the investigation, was set Monday to release findings from a 51-home indoor air quality study, including preliminary data about electrical corrosion and fire safety.The agency last month [...]
South Florida home buyers leery about Chinese drywall
By Paul Owers
South Florida Sun Sentinel
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Home buyers in South Florida are petrified of tainted Chinese drywall.
rule out entire neighborhoods or houses and condos built within the past seven years. Others don’t want anything to do with builders known to have used Chinese drywall. And buyers who do sign contracts seek [...]
Yankee Candles' Haunted House Candle Holders Pose Fire Risk, Recalled
With Halloween quickly approaching, a spooky item is deemed a fire hazard. Haunted House candle holders sold exclusively at Yankee Candles are being recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Court-ordered Chinese drywall inspections begin
ALLISON ROSS
PALM BEACH POST Homeowners’ efforts to get relief from their Chinese drywall problems are moving ahead as court-appointed inspectors began examining a handful of affected properties this week.
A house in the Cobblestone Creek subdivision west of Boynton Beach will be inspected next week. It and 14 other Florida homes will help set a protocol [...]