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China Says Not to Worry: A Little Poison is OK - 6/3/2007 12:23:04 PM

selfbnd411

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Last updated June 3, 2007 1:13 a.m. PT
China rejects U.S. warning on toothpaste

By ANITA CHANG
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BEIJING -- China rejected a warning issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urging consumers to avoid using Chinese toothpaste because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.

Calling the FDA warning "unscientific, irresponsible and contradictory," China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement posted on its Web site late Saturday that low levels of the chemical have been deemed safe for consumption.

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The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said experts from the Health Ministry had deemed diethylene glycol a "low-level" poison that does not accumulate in the body and found no evidence the substance caused cancer or deformities.

It also said European Union standards allow for a certain amount of the chemical and cited a 2000 Chinese study that found toothpaste containing less than 15.6 percent diethylene glycol was not harmful. The Chinese toothpaste the FDA is concerned about contains between 3 percent to 4 percent of the drug, according to the FDA.

"Therefore the warning issued by the FDA ... is unscientific, irresponsible and contradictory," the agency said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_China_US_Toothpaste.html

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RE: China Says Not to Worry: A Little Poison is OK - 6/3/2007 12:27:27 PM

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China's right. The US is paranoid. This grants a higher expectation of quality in the US and a higher effiency in China.

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RE: China Says Not to Worry: A Little Poison is OK - 6/3/2007 12:48:14 PM

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Well, but they are taking it seriously: they recently sentenced the commissioner of their food & drug agency to DEATH for taking bribes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/world/asia/29cnd-drug.html

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RE: China Says Not to Worry: A Little Poison is OK - 6/3/2007 12:52:05 PM

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How does this relate to cows, and how does this relate to Gonzalez?

Discuss.

Lame, lame lame lame lame.............get to the right of this conversation, gentelmen.

LOL,
Ron

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RE: China Says Not to Worry: A Little Poison is OK - 6/4/2007 1:53:09 PM

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umm- i tend to beleive the FDA on this one.

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RE: China Says Not to Worry: A Little Poison is OK - 6/4/2007 2:24:26 PM

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As if the FDA has never flubbed up. Tell the former head of the chinese fda who has been sentenced to death for taking bribes that the chinese haven't been takling these things seriously.

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RE: China Says Not to Worry: A Little Poison is OK - 6/4/2007 3:15:15 PM

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