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NEWS ABOUT: toothpaste

toothpaste stories: 6 news summaries

Chinese PR Combats
Export Rap

Enemies in Washington stymie effort to promote food products called unsafe

Jun 30, 07 11:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - China is on a public relations blitz to keep its exports solvent after nonstop coverage of unsafe toothpaste, fish and even tires in the US, China's largest customer, last week. Beijing broke its pattern of protest over the coverage, shutting down 180 offending factories and promising consumers that tainted food... More »

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China • food • health • toothpaste • fish • safety • contamination • public relations

Toothpaste Scare Widens—Again

Tainted tubes from China turn up
in Georgia prisons, hospitals

Jun 28, 07 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese toothpaste scare is far from over and is more than just a scare. Tainted tubes have turned up, as expected, in discount stores—but officials have also found them in institutions such as prisons and hospitals, the Times reports. Nearly 1 million tubes containing varying amounts of a... More »

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China • food • Florida • toothpaste • Georgia • chemicals • food safety • tainted toothpaste • safety • contamination

China Shutters Scores of
Food Factories

Crackdown spreads to plants using industrial chemicals in edibles

Jun 27, 07 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Chinese government has closed 180 factories that were using dangerous and illegal ingredients, such as formaldehyde, in food products. The relatively large number of plants casts serious doubt on Beijing's insistence that the recent rash of tainted products originated with a small number of sources, the AP reports: A... More »

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China • food • melamine • toothpaste • chemicals • food safety

Safety of Chinese-Made Toys Is Hardly Child's Play

Flood of recalls raises concerns

Jun 19, 07 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The latest Chinese products posing safety problems for consumers are children's toys, joining toothpaste, pet food, and drugs on an increasingly worrisome list, the New York Times reports. Last week's recall of Thomas & Friends train toys brought the total number of toys recalled by the US this year to... More »

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China • consumer • pet food recall • toothpaste • children • toys • safety • Thomas and Friends

Colgate Cautions Against Fake Toothpaste

Counterfeit dentifrice may contain toxic chemical, company says

Jun 14, 07 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Colgate alerted the public today that counterfeit toothpaste bearing its brand name and possibly containing a deadly chemical has turned up in discount stores in four Northeast states. The phony products' packaging is riddled with misspellings and gives the manufacturing location as South Africa, where the company doesn't make toothpaste.... More »

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China • FDA • Panama • toothpaste • chemicals • Colgate • counterfeit • Costa Rica • South Africa • diethylene glycol • Colgate Palmolive • Dominican Republic

Trail of Chinese Chemicals Leads to Toothpaste

Governments on two continents investigate tainted product

May 22, 07 8:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Dominican Republic is the latest country investigating the possibility that a poisonous chemical from China wound up in a consumer product. This time it's toothpaste that contains the industrial solvent diethylene glycol, which has already turned up in Panama and Australia, the Times reports. The Chinese government has tracked... More »

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China • food • health • pet food recall • toothpaste • chemicals • contamination • diethylene glycol • glycerin • cold medicine • Mr. Cool Junior

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