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Article: The Chinese government.(BUSINESS BRIEFS...)
- Article from:
- Food & Drink Weekly
- Article date:
- July 30, 2007
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The Chinese government moved last week to quell international concerns about the safety of its exports, announcing that it had revoked the licenses of three companies that made poisonous ingredients later used--with lethal results--in medicine and pet food. One of the three, the Taixing Glycerine Factory, sold an ingredient laced with a potent poison, diethylene glycol that was later mixed into cold medicine, killing at least 100 people in Panama over the last year. Diethylene glycol, a sweet and inexpensive substitute for glycerin that is also a prime ingredient in some antifreeze, is the same poison later found in Chinese toothpaste, ...