Tainted Chinese toothpaste may
be dangerous to children.

Cheap Chinese toothpaste containing antifreeze ingredient.

When I about this FDA warning concerning toothpaste made in China, I was interested to see why, in this particular case, the FDA stepped in and protected the American public. It seems that it may be more political than oversight in perhaps attempting to embarrass the Chinese government. I guess this shouldn’t surprise me since the Bush administration uses the American people as guinea pigs for unsafe products. What’s so fascinating about this case is that it wasn’t the FDA who inspected and found this unsafe product, it was an alert consumer in Panama who noticed that diethylene glycol was listed as an ingredient in the Chinese toothpaste. This was after over 100 deaths were reported in Panama due to the Panamanian government inadvertently mixing the poison made in China into 260,000 bottles of cold medicine. So, how did the FDA get involved, and what does China have to say about it? It’s enough to make you sick — literally.

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Look into my eyes.

When you have about 200 toxicologists, pediatricians, epidemiologists and other experts who get together and declare that exposure to common chemicals makes babies more likely to develop an array of health problems later in life, wouldn’t you think our governmental agencies and industry groups would be concerned? Well, no, they aren’t. Why? Because particularly in the United States, they said there is little or no human evidence to support concerns about toxic residue in air, water, food and consumer products. Yet as a nation, we are seeing more asthma, allergies, respiratory illness, confusing and alarming increases in autism, and other behavioral disorders like ADD and ADHD. What is it going to take for these governmental agencies and industries to begin to revise regulations and procedures that would take this into account? With profit and big business interests more important than human health, I don’t see these issues getting any attention any time soon. So, what’s the story?

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