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Article: China's trade damages.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2009
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Byline: Henry Miller, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Lethal tampering with food or drug ingredients (to say nothing of lead paint in toys and poisonous toothpaste) from China seems to be business as usual.
In 2007, melamine was deliberately added to an ingredient in pet food that sickened and killed cats and dogs in various parts of the world. In the same year, Chinese-made diethylene glycol, mislabeled as nontoxic glycerin, was mixed into anti-fever medicines for children, killing at least 100 in Panama. Last year, the contamination of precursors of the blood-thinning drug heparin with another chemical caused hundreds of allergic reactions and 19 ...