CHINA-FREE

DEFINITION chi-na-free adj. A term proposed for use on food labels to show that products are not made in China.

CONTEXT In light of recent health and safety scares regarding Chinese-made food and products, a U.S.-based company called Food for Health International has announced plans to put "China-free" stickers on its goods. The subtext: These products won't make you sick or have harmful contaminants like melamine.

USAGE Given recent recalls of items from toys to toothpaste, China-free labeling could catch on, though consumers would do well to remember that not all products from China are tainted and not all tainted products are from China.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Another poison arrives from China
The Virginian-Pilot
Chinese companies apparently switched to cadmium as their poison of choice after US officials waged a highly publicized crackdown on products containing ...
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Cheap Jewelry Finds New, Better Way To Poison Your Child
The Consumerist (blog)
... Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The AP says jewelry industry veterans in China say "cadmium has been used in domestic products there for years."
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TOXIC TOYS: Dangerous Chemicals in Children's Items Sold in RI
WLNE-TV (ABC6)
Lead was regulated under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, but there are no cadmium restrictions on jewelry. ...
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Cheap jewelry may pose health concern for children
St. Joseph News-Press
The American Association of Poison Control Centers said nationwide, one adult died from cadmium exposure in 2006, but no recent incidents had been reported. ...
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Thallium: A Poison And More ... Much More
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Back in the summer of '07, a student at the China University of Mining and Technology, in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu province, poisoned three of his classmates by ...
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Klobuchar wants hearing on toxic-laced Chinese toys
Minneapolis Star Tribune
A Chinese product safety official said Wednesday that the growing outcry will prompt the government to looking into findings about the dangerous levels of ...
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Bush, Cheney made this terrorism mess
Lansdale Reporter
China even made poisonous baby food and knowingly sold it to their own citizens. How stupid are we to keep buying their products? Why import anything from ...
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Comments on this Story
Arizona Daily Star
Obama says he cares about the health of Americans and yet his government is allowing China to poison our children. Obama needs to stop trying to ...
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P&G CEO Bob McDonald on Why Size Doesn't Matter
AdAge.com (subscription)
So why, if we develop a good product that works well in China, couldn't we expand to all the Chinese in Asia, rather than think about the Chinese in ...
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Darts and laurels
Salisbury Post
As if toxic toothpaste and contaminated pet food weren't bad enough, now we're having to contend with poison charm bracelets. The Consumer Product Safety ...
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Buy Chinese Goods and Die « Buffalohair Gazette International
By buffalohair
In yet another round of recalls for poisonous children's toys US Product Safety authorities scramble to investigate *children's jewelry tainted with deadly poison, again. Ironically China's export earnings have skyrocketed causing an ...
Buffalohair Gazette International - http://buffalohair.wordpress.com/

Google, China and Reality « Phil's Favorites – By Ilene
By ilene9
If we poisoned Chinese children with products exported there they would (rightly so) consider us to have committed an open act of war against their population. Why is it that we continue to permit this sort of outrageous conduct – the ...
Phil's Favorites - By Ilene - http://philsbackupsite.wordpress.com/

An Average American Patriot: China number one in the world in ...
By an average patriot
We borrow from them so they can poison us! 60% of all recalls by the consumer products safety commission are products of every sort and ilk from China. I refuse to believe this is happening and too often. I am sure you can all add to ...
An Average American Patriot - http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/

politchick: sermon on the left coast
By politchick
How many years have we been hearing about how China has been injecting poison into its farm and factory products, usually because the poisonous ingredient is cheaper than the real one? I know it's hard to avoid buying products from ...
politchick - http://politchick.blogspot.com/

RConversation: Google, China, and the future of freedom on the ...
By Rebecca MacKinnon
The responsibility of a soup company not to poison me, and the shoe company's responsibility not to sell me a shoddy product that makes me twist my ankle, can be dealt with largely through government regulation and national law. ...
RConversation - http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/

poison products made in China
poison products made in China - xyzzzz. Posted: Jan 14th, 2010 - 3:00 pm In Reply to: Yes, I have evil inside, but I think a perfect world - L&L ...

Poison swapped for poison? Stores pull potentially dangerous ...
Poison swapped for poison? Stores pull potentially dangerous children's jewelry ... Meanwhile, an official with China's product safety agency said it would ...

Walmart Pulls Suspected Poison Jewelry - CBS News
Find out more about lead poisoning and get expert tips on how to protect your ... products from China should be subject to additional scrutiny," said Rep. ...