USA: Chinese Jewelry “Poisonous”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 14, 2010 16:10 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Crime, Law, Made in China, Shopping, Toys, USA
The USA has condemned Chinese manufacturers for responding to a ban on lead in children’s toys by replacing it with cadmium, potentially even more toxic.
The US recently attempted to effect a ban on the import of poisonous toys, imported from China and frequently containing high concentrations of lead, but the response of Chinese manufacturers has simply been to substitute lead with other toxic heavy metals, rather than actually stop using toxic materials altogether as was presumably desired.
The US government’s top consumer watchdog, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, was outraged by recent media reports that cheap jewelry for children, sold at such stores as Walmart and supplied from China, was found to contain as much as 91% cadmium.
They warned parents against buying metal jewelry for their children in no uncertain terms:
“I have a message for parents, grandparents and caregivers: Do not allow young children to be given or to play with cheap metal jewelry, especially when they are unsupervised.
We have proof that lead in children’s jewelry is dangerous and was pervasive in the marketplace. To prevent young children from possibly being exposed to lead, cadmium or any other hazardous heavy metal, take the jewelry away.”
The retailers concerned have withdrawn the offending items from sale, but imports are unaffected, and naturally China’s factories continue to uphold their famous reputation for quality.
Democrats were quick to jump on the China-bashing bandwagon:
“It is just despicable that a manufacturer anywhere, in this case in China, would use something that’s known to be poisonous to children and put it in children’s jewelry to save a few bucks.”
Cadmium has long been known to be highly toxic, usually as an industrial pollutant; Japan’s notorious “Itai-itai disease,” a condition which killed and deformed thousands for many decades, was found to be caused by cadmium contamination.
It seems the complete lack of scruples displayed by Chinese manufacturers, and the willingness of American consumers and retailers to place price before safety, is truly a match made in hell.
Via AP.
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China QUALITY.
Profits over safety. >.>
Chinese jewelry it's not made of gold and silver instead it's made from old batteries and fail.
lol @ all the anti-Chinese comments. I'm Chinese, and if you guys want to direct hate, direct it at our crappy government, don't group us in with them. Ah, fuck it. Every body discriminates, so whatever. =3
o lol, this is a clear win for china
i just find it hilarious that the us banned lead and not cadmium, it would be like banning knives and not guns...o wait, they do do that
I avoid buying Chinese produces at all cost. Less thing to worry about.
>Stop painting your products with poison
>Start painting them with something even more poisonous
China
I
Am
Disappoint
It is the companies that sell these products who are at fault. China only makes these because these big companies (who probably know what goes into these toys) want something cheap regardless of safety towards children.
If the dirty american companies gave a shit about its customers, and didn't buy them, they wouldn't be produced.
This looks like an attempt to poison massive amounts of people
note to self stop buying cheap trinkets for my baby cousins that are made in china
also
The only heavy metal i want in my toys is gold xD
关于你们对于我的言论的评论
我想申明几点
你们有没有想过
中国那么多人
怎么管得过来呢
你们失望的心情我们很理解啊
但是我们也很失望啊
政府总是在查这些BAD company
但是有些人就是很没有道德
就会做这些违法犯罪的事情
查收了一次,
接着又有人这样做
你们说我们自私
这样的社会造就这样的我们
我们连自己的安全都保证不了
怎么来维护你们的权利呢
我真的很抱歉
每次看到这些报道
我都很愧疚很抱歉
但是我们实在没有办法
人多,社会又乱
这是我们的国情
请你们能体谅一下作为一个中国人的心情
不要说风凉话了
我多少次的羡慕你们的社会福利
但是我这里却连个医疗保险,养老金都无法保障
你们该叫我们如何是好呢
请体谅一下吧
如果实在不行,你们花多点钱可以买好东西啊
中产阶级的公民做不到吗
我们都只处于地下的社会生产水平
可能一百年以后才会有改进
所以发生这样的事情一点都不奇怪
请不要再大惊小怪了
这样的事情无时无刻的发生在我们身边
真的很抱歉I'M SO SORRY ABOUT THIS.
真是非常抱歉,如果说了失礼的话
请原谅一个社会主义国家吧.
I really hope America gets its manufacturing jobs back. It is getting tiresome to have imports that are low quality. It's not so much a China thing, it is a money thing. Companies need to stop putting their greed ahead of safety.
With so many things stamped "Made in China". It is hard to even find something that isn't made from there... something as simple as a pencil has the stamp.
Is it even safe to buy china plates anymore?
no... not anymore
Moralfaegottry from Dems completely justified here. Cadmium is definitely more poisonous than lead. Hopefully, this spurs my country to actually make cheap jewelry ourselves. We must stop the Chinese jewelry makers from turning American kids into r-tards (even faster) w/ their jewelry and painted toys.
But, then again, they do own nearly $1 trillon of our debt, so...
*Face Palm*...you must be Chinese.
Is there anyone else out there thinking that China actually wants to reduce the population and effectiveness of other countries by exporting poisonous goods? Just recently(and maybe even now) they tried to start a war with the small country of Japan(small when compared to China). Maybe this is just some strategy to increase their chances of winning the 3rd great war?
Fat chance. This is greed driven.
A lot of China's own citizens are living in appalling conditions, using malicious products.
Everything from China is poisonous. Especially the knock-off meds and exploding watermelons.
How is this China's fault? Blame Walmart for making the demand in the first place. Simple rules of supply and demand... And btw, don't buy Chinese toys.
Think of it this way. Without China engineering great buildings out of trash and mass producing toys out of toxic waste, who would we poke fun at? Life would become so much boring. I guess we could concentrate more attention into bashing sea shepperd and equality now.
basically... the chinese are now undoubtedly going for quantity over quality fucking up standards and safety. the chinese aim to sell more by fucking up consumer safety.
您说的倒好听
那是因为你们国家的经济制度完善
如果我们要保持声誉能保得住
我们早就保得住了
is there sbd forget china is a developing country?
一个发展中的国家如何一步做的位
你以为这些东西就没人管?
我们有很尽力,
中国现在对对外出口的贸易已经管的很紧了
但是我们要一步步慢慢来啊
当你们有电灯时
我们还在点蜡烛
我很佩服你们能发展的很快
但是这些缺陷是无法避免的
现在我们去管理了,我们一定会做到好
你们的方法就是不要再去买中国的东西
你们要买日本的东西,欧洲国家的都没问题
只是请不要认为所有的中国的都没良心,都不负责
有些人是没良心不负责任
让你们受罪了
但是请记住大部分的中国人还是有责任心的!
我并不是在找借口
就算您认为我在找借口我也只能说我尽力了
因为事实就是如此
我们在改变,只是比较慢,
请相信你们会看到更好的中国
我再一次的向您说对不起
这样的中国很糟糕,我也希望政府能做的更好
来保护你们的利益!
我只是个14岁的中学生
说的都是些不成熟,没有说服力的话
但是并不是全无道理的
希望你们能体谅
>is there sbd forget china is a developing country?
Thanks for the laugh, funny Anonymous.
唉
好好和你说话结果你就这样
你就笑吧
笑死你好了
看谁笑到最后
你这烧饼
反正你要说啥我也无所谓啦
我又不会少一块肉
关于你们对我言论的议论
我想声明一下的几点
你们说你们对中国很失望
我们自己也很失望啊
我们连自己的安全都无法保障
怎么来保障你们的呢
中国现在有14亿人口了
有八亿的农民
不是像你们各个都能上大学,
有文化有素质
很多人他们没有文化
从来没有上过学
所以他们就会做一些违法犯罪的事情,
你们以为我们不管吗?
我们管不过来啊
今天管了
明天就再次犯错
社会给不了我们保障,
我们是自身难保的
怎么来保护你们呢?
我每次看到这些报道
我就会觉得很伤心很难过很愧疚
怎么我们的人会做那么自私的事情呢?
不过你们有那么好的社会保障,就不要说风凉话了
我们这里连一个简单的医疗保险或者是养老保险都无法保障,我们是在保障不了你们的利益了.
BECAUSE OF profits?
yes,they do this
in our society.
it isn't emergency.
it is usual
this dirty society make us become more and more selfish.
here is lack of education,so their only way is cheat us,also you,we always feel afraid,because we don't know what will happen tomorrow.in china,an old woman fell,no body will help her,maybe you just think we are cold blood,but infact,this old lady just fell by herself,nobody knocked her down,if you help her,you will be to blame for this phoniness accident,is it unbelievable? I think so too.so,this is my to tell you;china is complex,but you must remember ,it didn't means all chinese are suck,i'm so sorry that chinese make you feel so unsatisfactory
我们实在是没办法了
我再一次向受害者道歉.
Here in lies the fall of the human race...
I find it quite sad that so many products are made in China. Its no wonder people poke fun at goods that are made in China or feel questionable when it is.
If there's a laptop made in China and one made in Japan with the exact same specifications and price, we all know that 90% of us would take the one made in Japan. Like the previous Chinese guy said, a lot of them are uneducated and you can't blame all Chinese folks for what a bunch of idiot manufacturers. That's true.
So why not do something about it? Where's your mighty Chinese communist government with all those big portraits of your dear leader? If your government can devote so much time to hunting down and executing civilians trying to spread "dissent and trouble" (aka DEMOCRACY AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS), surely they can devote a quarter of that money to tighten up factory regulations right?
Its the Chinese people's own fault for their bad reputation. Of course with 1 billion of you guys there, its gonna be hard to start picking names.
FACE-PALM
I could have sworn that heavy metals like cadmium and lead had proper uses in electronics and are quite valuable for that. Why waste these valuable metals by putting them in childrens toys, etc. when you could use them to make useful stuff?
Also, 91% cadmium? That's pretty damn pure. I should buy some just for that. Not sure what I'd do with all the cadmium, but I'll think of something.
It's used in rechargeable batteries such as nickle cadmium cells commonly found in power tools.
It does not have the energy density of lithium but they are robust cells and are capable of supplying very large currents which is why they find use in tools.
Cadmium is an unwanted toxic byproduct. Its probably not worth very much. Its also banned for the use of almost anything electronic other than batteries. And according to wiki, the highest concentration was 91%. Most of it was 10%.
Cadmium used to be used for light detectors; the element's resistance would change depending on the amount of light present.
Lead and tin were and still are used in solder; but non-lead-based solders are currently used in many electronics manufacturing plants ("ROHS-compliant").
Selenium used to be used in high-power rectifiers (diodes).
Gallium arsenide was the basis of cutting-edge, high-speed electronic devices during the 1980s.
Industries are trying to move to less-toxic alternatives, if only to avoid bad press.
In the major metropolitan U.S. area where I live, I've noticed the electric company has at one substation, replaced the big, heavy, nasty polychlorinated biphenyl-laced cooling oil-based transformers with samller, much-more-efficient transformers (which don't need metal cases, heat sinks, or even fans, as the older ones did).
Where's the OP pic from?
China's doing the world a favor; either teach the arrogant americans to stop wasting money or have them die. In fact it's their choice.
and who the fuck are you to tell others how to spend their own money?
someone who isn't american
well said, anon
Jewelry containing cadmium!!??
Blasphemy!!
Next thing you know, they'll be selling dog meat as cat meat!!!
who buys cat meat anyway
谢谢你们总是以一切方法来诋毁我们.
不过呢
我们自己也深受其害,
你们买到中国的东西就是你们倒霉啦.
Google translate:
Thank you for always all the way to undermine us.
However, it
We ourselves have suffered,
You buy things in China is your bad luck 啦.
This anon speaks the truth. The present situation is the result of lack of free speech, corrupt officials, and above most, capitalistic values.
But hey, who would have guessed that a system which places profit above all could lead to criminal abuse.
China has suffered greatly for this and other byproducts of industrialization. That's what amazes me the most - I could see it if they were just screwing over the rest of the world to gain an advantage. It would be unethical and brutal, but to harm their own people so commonly and so callously... it's unthinkable. These factory owners would stab their own brothers in the back just to make a bit of coin.
tsk tsk 如果你们也‘深受其害’，你们应该有责任来防止这些事情发生吗。你们中国人太自私了。Yeah, I'm not from China btw.. =.= shouldn't you guys have the responsibility to stop these things from happening the first place? You guys deserve the criticism because you're too selfish in the first place
look, they are toys not food. stop bloody eating them and u wont fucking die, stupid children.
Like it was said above, you don't even need to put the thing in your mouth to be poisoned. And Cd isn't fatal through limited exposure. However it does have long-lasting and even permanent negative effects.
/facepalm
Its just like the high school rich family with dumb kids beating up a poor family with smart kids so the rich family gets their dumb kids to 1st chair and 2nd chair in band class and the top cheerleader spots. Then the poor family with smart kids has to spend the year in the hospital trying to get their kids to recover.
China is doing this on purpose to make sure any one in the future is taken out ahead of time so China can appear smarter and over run the world.
I recently received a gift in the form of a mug during Christmas. I was told the mug cost around $13 or so and the mug itself was on sale, so let's say $20. The mug itself is made from the USA, hence the rather hefty price tag. I'm pretty sure I can find a near Chinese equivalent for less than a fraction of the price, but I don't think I'd want to sacrifice quality over quantity; in this case saving a few bucks on a mug with questionable build quality.
Maybe I'm just being paranoid with Chinese-made goods, but I steer clear of any consumable Chinese goods and reserve my Chinese-made purchases on electronics; though not like I have any choice given that most electronics nowadays are assembled in China.
I'm amused that Americans fail to see that Chinese manufacturers obviously cut corners to lower prices. Guess the people here just expect top quality for a cheap price...
What do you expect when you buy cheap stuff. If it's cheap, than there is a reason it's cheap. Being Chinese, I'm not proud of what my country do(I laugh at them) but end of the day, it's the Americans that are buying them, giving them the money, which encourages them to continue to make them. The idea is to cut the top of the chain off(consumer/retailers) so those company go bankrupt. And yea, terrorist really should learn a bit or two from China, cause it seems China manufactures does more damage than terrorist these days(America I think does the most, but I'm not going to include them since we are talking about China).
So... Terrorists Win?
More like China epic facepalm.
Some Americans presume the lower cost is due to cheaper labor, and some Americans just don't care why it's cheaper.
As other posters have pointed out, suppression of information combine with corruption to produce this sort of reesult.
It's the advantage and disadvantage of mass production and mass markets: things can be made much more cheaply (without taking shortcuts), but refusing to put in a five-cent-cost safety part, or using toxic materials, times millions and millions of units add up to so much god-damn money that corruption occurs frequently (and I mean here in the U.S., not just in China).
Oh China what will you astound us with next? anyone got any ideas?
China quality condoms
Made from folded up paper and infested with Anthrax ?
Balloons.
Second hand condoms.
QUALITY at it's finest.
Wait wait, I'm sure they're kind enough to wash it and disinfect it with acid before putting it into another sticky taped packet then export it to walmart
or plastic wrap laced with rat poison.
I say we export a few of our 'heavy metals' on China
Something along the lines of tungsten rods dropped from space?
I say we export Heavy Metal to China.
you think their so dumb to import poisonous stuff ????
oh wait...
What's poisonous about Heavy Metal? Other than the fact that it's actually not a very good movie.
In china, poisonous substances don't kill.
it don't it only makes you super rich.
China quality strikes again.
If terrorist were any smarter, they'd learn a thing or two on manufacturing from China.
Discrimination!!
Artefact, you are so wrong as the xenophobes americans who hate the "otaku-weeaboos", hate a country is dumb, you are dumb.
You dont need hate china do love the japan, stop of be a dumbass.
Apolojuice is required nida!
Doesn't the blame fall equally onto Walmart for both importing these items and putting them onto their shelves without consideration to their consumers' health, and without proper inspection?
Don't be so quick to blame china. they just provide the cheap shit, america is the one that imports them. no one tells you guys to buy them
Proof that Walmart is an evil evil corporation that should be boycotted.
But cadmium in jewelry that's just extraordinarily stupid and or evil on the part of China.
You usually have to actually ingest lead for it to be harmful but cadmium is not even safe to handle.
I can see it in the headlines now. "China poisons worlds water supply. Half of the worlds population is wiped out. Those left on the critically acclaimed message boards of the world renowned website Sankaku Complex, have these words of wisdom to share. 'I don't think China is at fault at all. I mean, no one forced the people to drink the water. It was their choice'"
You sir, are an idiot...
Walmart doesn't do any product testing. They are a retailer. The product manufacturer is responsible for testing.
So if the jewelry is from Mattel, then Mattel is responsible for testing.
But that is beside the REAL point here and that point is....
WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU PUTTING CADMIUM into children's toys?!?! You don't need any special testing, you just need to NOT PUT POISON INTO THE TOYS IN THE FIRST FUCKING PLACE.
Stupid ass corrupted fucktards. That is the Chinese for you.
I'm assuming the 03 in your name refers to your year of birth, troll.
Actually the idea of communism is something pretty, but sadly no one ever put it into practice and probably no one ever will, because it's like, whatever we write on our flag, it's still the same type of people under it.
btw @ 13:55 15/01/2010: The 03 actually refers to nothing, but it makes STRG+F so much easier, as I don't always get 'kitchen'.
Well said Chen-03, I completely agree!
Why? Because cheap toys sell. It's called capitalism, deal with it or vote for communism. (Capitalism really needs this kind of thinking, it wouldn't be capitalism anymore if people wouldn't rip off others or care for their fellow men.)
Anyone find it slightly ironic that these toys/jewelery are probably under US commission?
And the idea of communism creates even more friction with morality so we're pretty well doomed to chose the lesser of evils.
lol Chen-03, very interesting perspective, yet completely true. The very idea of capitalism frictions against morality.
hm, so you're saying people inherently want to complain? Personally I think it's because people can't obtain happiness that they complaint and resent. Can you elaborate on your view on that?
Yes, I'm saying people like to complain or play the blame game and want to be better than others. Just watch the japanese. They don't have a lot of outsiders who they could insult in their country, so they invented this bloodtype-thing. (I'm not to sure how exactly it works, but I know there are bloodtypes that are better than others.)
I once read an article from some philosoph about the fullfillment of wishes and how every fullfilled wish wouldn't make actually happy, but make the person sad. It's because people don't actually want those wishes to become true, they just want to wish something. It's like kids wanting something they can't get. Just because they can't get it, they want it badly. (Or like with woman and married guys.) But if they fullfilled this wish, they wouldn't become happy, it would just leave a hole of some kind and make them sad because they lost something. They lost a wish. It's like that with happiness, too. We all want it badly and strive for it, but getting it would surely make us sad. I'm not talking about some happiness in your life, but about achieving total 'happiness' for all your life. It would finally get boring.
There are lots of stories about this, like young kids from rich parents who couldn't wish for anything do drugs or stuff because they are bored with their 'happy' lives. As a matter of facts it's the process of running after your dreams that is the most enjoyable. Finally achieving your dreams will leave you with the aformentioned hole.
Well, yes Artefact. This is also one of the reasons why communism wouldn't ever work. People aren't cut out for it. Most of us need to stay above others or at least try really hard to believe in it. Filthy chinese, filthy pagan, filthy otaku and so on...
Most puzzling is btw that the people who would actually benefit from something like (real) socialism are the ones who destroyed it two decades ago in east germany. The sad thing is that happiness for everyone actually breeds anger. After all, what should I do everyday if there wasn't anything to voice my complaints over? A pretty dull life, I'd say.
Agreed again Chen, Communism as an ideology is great. Unfortunately human nature makes it impossible for that to work. China and other nations have proven that to the world as they gravitate towards capitalism.
Oh and to 13:55 15/01/2010, Chen is making insightful arguments with valid reasons, the only one that trolled in here's you.
ah yes, the obligatory name calling and groundless statements. how sad
Get out of here you filthy apologists. The very notion of communist "equality" is an abomination.
Though it's not a good reason by any measure of morality or ethics, it's because China produces a shit ton more cadmium than any other part of the world. As a result, it's pretty dang cheap over there, and since it looks like any other silvery metal, it would come as a benefit to the money-grubbing cockfags who run these cheap jewelry factories.
So the drug dealer is less at fault then his user customer? Walmart didn't inspect it because let's be honest NO OTHER COUNTRY DOES THIS! This is unprecedented.
wait a sec...u saying that you think your drug dealer is a good person? and dont expect a drug dealer to replace some of your coke with just a bit of rat posion?
Actually both are drug dealers. But, still, yes; this is outrageous!
And pointlessrockstar is right; drug dealers are often too shortsighted to see the symbolic relationship that the weak cattle expects.
actually yes, if no one buys the drugs, there wouldn't be a problem in the first place
good call, for the inside the nutshell version XD.
opps posted twice sry
Actually the analogy is slightly off
The market is split in to producer, supplier and consumer.
In the article China is the producer, Walmart the supplier and US people the consumer.
With drugs, drug farmers are the producer, drug dealers are the suppliers and junkies are the consumers. So yeah.
Actually i find this comparison a bit odd. Since the market is broken into producer, supplier and consumer.
In the article's case China is the producer Walmart the supplier and USA citizens the consumer
In the analogy you gave however Drug farmer are the producer, drug dealer are the supplier and the junkies are the consumer.
I dun see the link in your analogy
you know anon, i guess he didn´t mean THAT kind of Drug dealer....
It's basically Supply and Demand, if Walmart doesn't demand stuff at really low prices this would less likely to happen. They can either check the items first...which should have been done in the first place, since otherwise you don't even care what's on your shelf?
China is capable of producing better stuff, but you get what you paid for, or it's just you like production supervision.
well i was trying to go by wat the the first anon said about drugs (and trying to be funny about it in a sarcastic way but i guess that didnet work) but my point was this: they know that there products anit exactly "top of the range" but they still buy from them cos there cheap....so there just as evil as each other.
Go ahead.
I could name at least 4 or 5.
i said equally at fault not more.. u fail at reading comprehension
walmart doesnt inspect their product because THEY ARE LAZY AND CHEAP AND DONT CARE ABOUT THEIR CUSTOMERS!! any decent resellers should care for their customers to inspect their products and know what is in it before bringing it onto their market
no.its true actually.they put melamine in milk so the protein detector that detect N atom will have higher reading.and now that change lead into cadmium as lead has been banned.i lolled,China
In communist China melamine is called vitamin M.
Its just Vitamin C...
...admium
If it didn't help, you didn't use it enough.
Good for hospital revenues too.
Good for the mind body and soul lol
lol this reminds me of the time i tried to convince my friend to stop eating lead from his mechanical pencil in elementary school. after seeing news that chinese jewelry has lead in it i knew since i was in kindergarden but it took months to convince him to stop. i had to get our science teacher to tell him to stop eating lead. cant be too poisonous tho... he grew big and strong and is the tallest guy i know.
Lead from pencils isnt lead, it's graphite, or more commonly known as carbon.
Not neccessarily good for you, but not horrific to your health either.