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ebonlockHead's up, some Chinese companies are putting antifreeze in toothpaste:
Consumers were advised yesterday to discard all toothpaste made in China after federal health officials said they found Chinese-made toothpaste containing a poison used in some antifreeze in three locations: Miami, the Port of Los Angeles and Puerto Rico.
Although there are no reports of anyone being harmed by the toothpaste, the Food and Drug Administration warned that the Chinese products had a “low but meaningful risk of toxicity and injury” to children and people with kidney or liver disease.
The United States is the seventh country to find tainted Chinese toothpaste within its borders in recent weeks.
You can check the brands here, if you've got one, chuck it just to be on the safe side.
Consumers were advised yesterday to discard all toothpaste made in China after federal health officials said they found Chinese-made toothpaste containing a poison used in some antifreeze in three locations: Miami, the Port of Los Angeles and Puerto Rico.
Although there are no reports of anyone being harmed by the toothpaste, the Food and Drug Administration warned that the Chinese products had a “low but meaningful risk of toxicity and injury” to children and people with kidney or liver disease.
The United States is the seventh country to find tainted Chinese toothpaste within its borders in recent weeks.
You can check the brands here, if you've got one, chuck it just to be on the safe side.
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Date: 2007-06-04 06:57 pm (UTC)Chinese government stance has been that toothpaste is not intended for ingestion, so it's OK to put it in there. Of course, it's important to sweeten children's toothpaste, and children would never swallow toothpaste... umm....