Tit-for-tat safety spats
Tit-for-tat safety spats
SAFE FOR CHILDREN?: A toy vendor hawking her wares in Shandong province. The quality of toys made in China has been in the spotlight. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A NUMBER of made-in-China products have been taken off the shelves recently for safety reasons, while China has hit back with its own list of unsafe foreign imports.
PROBLEMATIC PRODUCTS IMPORTED BY CHINA
Aug 9: China charges that 24 imported gas turbines made by US industrial institution General Electric had caused several big accidents.
Aug 15: China bans the import of three types of biscuits made by Arnott's Indonesia, a subsidiary of US food giant Campbell Soup, saying the biscuits contain levels of aluminium three times beyond the safety threshold.
Aug 21: China announces that it returned 272 heart pacemakers imported from the US in April after quality tests found problems.
Aug 22: China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine says it has found pesticides, poisonous weeds, and dirt in soy bean imports from the US. The beans - crushed for oil and used as animal feed - are the biggest single US farm export to China.
PROBLEMATIC MADE-IN-CHINA PRODUCTS
Aug 1 and Aug 15: US toy giant Mattel issues two separate recalls involving over 20 million Chinese-made toys it says were coated in lead-laced paint and contained small magnets harmful to children.
Aug 18: A chain of Dutch bed stores says it will be recalling more than 1,300 Chinese-made foam mattresses amid fears that they had been sprayed with toxic insecticide.
Aug 19: New Zealand launches an investigation into woollen and cotton clothes made in China after scientists find dangerous levels of formaldehyde.
Aug 22: Chinese-made blankets found to contain high levels of formaldehyde are recalled across Australia and New Zealand.
SAFE FOR CHILDREN?: A toy vendor hawking her wares in Shandong province. The quality of toys made in China has been in the spotlight. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A NUMBER of made-in-China products have been taken off the shelves recently for safety reasons, while China has hit back with its own list of unsafe foreign imports.
PROBLEMATIC PRODUCTS IMPORTED BY CHINA
Aug 9: China charges that 24 imported gas turbines made by US industrial institution General Electric had caused several big accidents.
Aug 15: China bans the import of three types of biscuits made by Arnott's Indonesia, a subsidiary of US food giant Campbell Soup, saying the biscuits contain levels of aluminium three times beyond the safety threshold.
Aug 21: China announces that it returned 272 heart pacemakers imported from the US in April after quality tests found problems.
Aug 22: China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine says it has found pesticides, poisonous weeds, and dirt in soy bean imports from the US. The beans - crushed for oil and used as animal feed - are the biggest single US farm export to China.
PROBLEMATIC MADE-IN-CHINA PRODUCTS
Aug 1 and Aug 15: US toy giant Mattel issues two separate recalls involving over 20 million Chinese-made toys it says were coated in lead-laced paint and contained small magnets harmful to children.
Aug 18: A chain of Dutch bed stores says it will be recalling more than 1,300 Chinese-made foam mattresses amid fears that they had been sprayed with toxic insecticide.
Aug 19: New Zealand launches an investigation into woollen and cotton clothes made in China after scientists find dangerous levels of formaldehyde.
Aug 22: Chinese-made blankets found to contain high levels of formaldehyde are recalled across Australia and New Zealand.
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