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 11, 2010

China Finds Another Way To Poison US Kids
24/7 Wall St. (blog)
The CPSC and toy firms claim that they cannot police the hundreds of facilities that make the products. Chinese companies continue to export toys to the US ...
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AP IMPACT: Toxic Metal in Kids' Jewelry From China
ABC News
It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist ... in China say cadmium has been used in domestic products there for years. ...

Cadmium found in trinkets from China
Boston Globe
It's a poison,'' said Bruce A. Fowler, a toxicologist at the Centers for Disease ... While the Consumer Product Safety Commission has cracked down on the ...

AP IMPACT: Toxic metal in kids' jewelry from China
Westfall Weekly News
It'sa poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and ... company's office in southern China who would not give her name said FAF products "might ...

AP IMPACT: With lead use barred, tests reveal toxic cadmium in ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
By JUSTIN PRITCHARD , AP Do they have a plot to poison the population and take over the ... if you can find them, to a China product, the price is the same. ...

Albany Times Union

AP IMPACT: Toxic metal in kids' jewelry from China
Albany Times Union
Jewelry industry veterans in China say cadmium has been used in domestic products there for years. Zinc, the metal most cited as a replacement for lead in ...

Canada's pharmaceuticals will be coming from China
Toronto Sun
The Post tells us some 40000 natural health products are available in Canada, a huge number of which are produced in China. It's anyone's guess what's in ...

Your View: Free Trade With China; Lawyers and Facebook; and More
Jakarta Globe
The FTA is bad for Indonesia because China's products are heavily subsidized by the ... China's development model is not sustainable and is poisonous to its ...

AP IMPACT: Toxic metal in kids' jewelry from China
The Olympian
A spokesman for the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, which regulates ... It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist ...

Telegraph.co.uk

The perfect antidote to Anjem Choudary's Islamist poison
Telegraph.co.uk
Some schools already in the UK do not prepare pork, or any products with alcohol within them, ... Nearly 20 million Muslims live in China. 5. ...

Intentional Poisoning: Feds probe cadmium in kids' jewelry from ...
By Europe
Moving swiftly, U.S. product safety authorities say they are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children's jewelry imported from China after disclosure of lab tests showing that some pieces ...
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Carcinogen found in Chinese jewelry | Bryan/College Station, Texas ...
It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7. Jewelry industry veterans in China say cadmium has been used in domestic products there for years. Zinc, the metal most cited as a replacement for lead in imported jewelry being sold in the United States, is a much safer and nontoxic ...
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The Adventures of Melody Yellowvan: Avoid jewelry made in China ...
By Becca
Avoid jewelry made in China--Cadmium poison! Cadmium is a highly toxic, cancer causing substance that is cheaper than zinc and is being used to replace the now-highly-regulated lead in toys and jewelry, especially those manufactured ...
The Adventures of Melody Yellowvan - http://beccajones.blogspot.com/

AP INVESTIGATION: Tests reveal toxic cadmium in kids' jewelry from ...
By JUSTIN PRITCHARD
Moving swiftly, US product safety authorities say they are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children's jewelry imported from China after disclosure of lab tests showing that some pieces consisted ... It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7. ...
San Francisco Examiner AP Story... - http://www.sfexaminer.com/templates/ap-stories-rss

China selling children's jewelry in U.S. contaminated with ...
By Staff
It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7. .... An official at FAF's headquarters did not respond to multiple requests for comment when informed of Weidenhamer's results; a woman at the company's office in southern China who would not give her name said FAF products "might naturally ...
The Hour Headlines - http://www.thehour.com/

More poison from China,now in kids jewelry? - Yahoo! Answers
Do you think it's by accident all of these poisonous products keep turning up from China or are they just that inept? This one contains Cadmium a known ...

China Recalls Milk in New Poison Scare - Melamine contamination ...
The recall so far is limited to products from a... World News Summaries. ... China Recalls Milk in New Poison Scare. Melamine contamination feared in 7 ...

New ad campaign touts 'made in China' - USATODAY.com
BEIJING — Tainted toothpaste, drugged catfish, lead-painted Elmos, poison pet food. ... "It's a fact that many products made in China are designed in ... "It helps create a positive, objective image for made-in-China products." ...

YouTube - China Continues To Poison Americas Children!
And all those China made shoes are good(not include fake one).You can boycott each product/company/Dealer which sell poisonous product and it works much ...