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  • June 2007

    • Colgate Cautions Against Fake Toothpaste

      Reuters  |  Jun 14, 07 4:23 PM CDT

      Colgate Cautions Against Fake Toothpaste

      (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. Colgate-Palmolive is working with the FDA to find the source. More »

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

  • May 2007

    • Trail of Chinese Chemicals Leads to Toothpaste

      New York Times  |  May 22, 07 8:02 AM CDT

      Trail of Chinese Chemicals Leads to Toothpaste

      (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 the toothpaste to factories in the Danyang region. More »

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      China  • health  • food  • chemicals  • contamination  • pet food recall  • toothpaste  • cold medicine  • diethylene glycol  • glycerin

    • Toxic Cough Syrup Causes Deaths in Panama

      New York Times  |  May 6, 07 8:00 AM CDT

      Toxic Cough Syrup Causes Deaths in Panama

      (Newser) - American drugmakers are on the lookout this week for another in the growing list of potentially deadly Chinese exports. This time, it's diethylene glycol, a sweet-but-toxic chemical that masquerades as glycerin in common medications like cough syrup and that has already killed almost 400 people—many of them children—in Panama.  More »

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      China  • health  • medicine  • FDA  • Panama  • cough syrup  • diethylene glycol  • glycerin

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