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 25, 2010

Los Angeles Times

1.5 million strollers are recalled
Los Angeles Times
"I'm a little dismayed that something like that could make it through product testing." Many merchants responded to the recall by posting the agency's ...
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Recall: 1.5 million Graco strollers
Chicago Tribune (blog)
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Graco Children's Products Inc. today announced a voluntary recall of 1.5 million Passage, Alano and Spree ...
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Dorel Asia cribs are recalled after a 6-month-old dies
Los Angeles Times
By Andrea Chang The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Tuesday announced the recall of about 635000 cribs after the death of a 6-month-old child and ...
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China Province Discovered More Melamine-Tainted Milk
Wall Street Journal
11 conceded delays in publicly announcing the action—including a national recall of the problem milk and closure of the dairy that produced it—by saying the ...
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Product recalls: syringes, cheese products, mops, ovens, elliptical trainers
ABC News
—About 162000 Lysol steam cleaning mops, made in China by Conair Corp. of Stamford, Conn., because hot water mixed with Lysol can spurt out and rupture the ...
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Asian Stocks Fall for Fifth Day Amid China Tightening Concern
BusinessWeek
China said yesterday that fourth-quarter gross domestic product grew 10.7 percent from a year ago, while the World Bank said developing Asian economies face ...
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Peugeot Citroen recalls 263 cars in China
China Daily
French auto maker PSA Peugeot Citroen will recall combined 263 autos of three models sold to the Chinese mainland due to defective radio, China's product ...
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China jewelry makers say toxic metal cuts costs
SouthCoastToday.com
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced it was opening an investigation into the AP's findings, and China's government also took notice of the ...
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Consumer Product Recalls in 2009
InjuryBoard.com (blog)
Consumer Products in the United States are regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). There have been several recalls of consumer products ...
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Melamine-laced milk products still for sale in China: report - Posted
By Gillian Grace
It quoted a former dairy industry official as saying it was likely more tainted goods remained in supermarkets despite a major recall after the 2008 scandal, which highlighted China's persistent product safety problems. ...
National Post - Posted - http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/default.aspx

Sliced Fingers Spur Graco Stroller Recall - CBS News
The recall by Graco Children's Products Inc. includes certain model ... I would much rather use American made product instead of from China, Japan, etc. ...

GlossyNews.com | Tag Archive | product recall
Tags: birth control, chinese goods, condoms, product recall, prophylactics, ... That's right, yet another "Made in China" product has copulators all over ...

MCOT English News : Peugeot Citroen recalls 263 cars in China ...
Peugeot Citroen recalls 263 cars in China mainland on faulty radio ... mainland due to defective radio, China's product quality watchdog has announced. ...

 

New York Daily News

Discovery of China's cadmium trinkets sheds light on prevalence of poison in ...
New York Daily News
"Cadmium is a poison. "We don't see cadmium poisoning in children in the US, but if it's in products from China, the potential exists for effects on ...
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Inspect Chinese Goods
The Ledger
How much longer are we going to allow China to systematically poison us? We should stop allowing any imports from China until they pass inspection. ...
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Venezuela Using Low-Priced Appliances to Counter Recession
Appliance Magazine
It brings refrigerators, television sets, and washing machines we'll be selling at low prices, as we already do with food products in the Mercal chain," ...
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Warnings issued over cadmium toys, jewelry
Alexandria Echo Press
Given the safety interests at stake, we need to conduct a full investigation into unsafe products from China and stop this once and for all. ...
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Poison milk fears hit China again
The Press Association
A new poisoned milk scare has hit China, just over a year after hundreds of thousands of children fell ill in a massive dairy safety scandal. ...
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Our World — 23 January 2010
Voice of America
The law requires that these old machines don't end up being dumped, where their toxic chemicals can poison humans and the environment. ...
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Hindus want India to be an economic superpower Only Bharatiyata can unite India
Organiser
They will never allow the injections of communal poison from the Pakistan army to communalise Indian society. The Hindus undeterred by the China-Pakistan ...
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Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (subscription)

JAL bankruptcy a tsunami whose waves circle the world; maybe ...
Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (subscription)
Star in particular has a very evil tasting poison-pill exit penalty, something the others ... but linking BA and Iberia remains far from a finished product. ...

Could Botox ingredient become a terrorist tool?
msnbc.com
The amount of poison in a prescribed dose is so small that a determined terrorist would have to obtain hundreds of vials at $400 each to kill even a single ...
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Venezuelan president: PlayStation games are 'poison'
Good Gear Guide
He implored Venezuelan manufacturers to stick to more traditional products, such as dolls and "educational" toys (we foresee a lot of disappointed ...
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Poison milk fears hit China again (Belfast Telegraph)
By Yahoo! News Search Results for baby products
A new poisoned milk scare has hit China, just over a year after hundreds of thousands of children fell ill in a massive dairy safety scandal. Related Stories Bid to save wildlife from oil spill Ethiopian plane crashes into sea ...
Free Baby Product - http://freebabyproduct.org/blog/

Anyone See The May Edition Of National Geographic, Devoted To ...
By David.Ge
She met with school children there and when she passed around an American magazine, the children showed no interest in it and passed it so quickly to and fro and back to her as though it were poison. Small wonder since they, like the Chinese, ... Mainland China's political persuasion is communist, so teaching their kids to hate us is what they do. We import every imaginable piece of crap they produce, which seems to mean, we borrow from them and then buy their products. ...
China and Chinese - http://www.chinesechina.org/

The new rules of Imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products ...
By aurick
Today, more than a third of Chinese men are addicted to cigarettes, generating billions in annual profits for Big Tobacco companies who are right now producing more Chinese casualties than any war in China's long history. .... "Poison the world and reap the profits!" The future belongs to smart nations. Any nation that wishes to protect itself from the same fate America is headed towards would be wise to reject American foods, medicines, beverages, consumer products, ...
Quantum Pranx - http://quantumpranx.wordpress.com/

24/7 Factories Can't Meet Chinese Demand « The Reasoned Review
By pavanvan
The article also mentions that cars are "ceasing to be a luxury item and are instead becoming a standard consumer product." And there's 1000 million of them. Incidentally, China is already dealing with some major traffic issues, as the Daily Mail demonstrates: ... Until we shake off this neo-imperial paradigm of "development", I fear the "third-world" will forever be deceived into chasing an impossible dream, and irrevocably poison themselves in doing so. ...
The Reasoned Review - http://pavanvan.wordpress.com/

Jellynat: China Glaze - Liquid Leather
By jellynat
... in the Snow • Time-less is More [ ORLY ] Iron Butterfly [ Rescue Beauty Lounge ] Mismas • Scrangie [ Sally Hansen ] Purple Pizzazz [ Sinful Colors ] Daddy's Girl • Green Bean • I Love You • Jamboree • Morph Goddess • Poison Ivy • Queen of Beauty • Secret Admirer .... If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. ...
Jellynat - http://jellynat.blogspot.com/

Poison milk fears hit China again | BreakingNews.ie
A new poisoned milk scare hit China today, just over a year after hundreds of ... Tainted products from three companies, Shandong Zibo Lusaier Dairy, ...