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, July 25, 2011

Chinese Moms Shop Overseas for Baby Products
The Epoch Times
By Olivia Lee & Gisela Sommer Chinese parents have developed the habit of looking overseas for baby food, after a poison-milk powder scandal in 2008 and a ...

Chinese Pigs Fed Poisoned Milk Powder
The Epoch Times
Melamine is used by unscrupulous players in China because it can make the milk powder appear to have more protein in tests. The chemical is toxic to humans, ...

Drugs in 'bath salts'
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Poison-control centers across the United States received 3470 calls linked to ... Depending on the form of the product and on the user, the bath salts are ...

DYING FOR A SMOKE
Daily Star
... insect eggs, flies, wood, rat poison, battery acid and even human faeces. ... Once there, Chinese workers thicken it with chemicals before rolling the ...

Relatives of tainted syrup victims decry ruling in Spain
Expatica Spain
The syrup was contaminated with diethylene glycol, an industrial product not ... the product, which was supplied to it by China's CNSC Fortune Way Company. ...

 

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