France seizes a million doses of fake Chinese aspirin

is there more floating around and if so where are they?

I'm so confused

Besides, the market is so huge, who'd know?

But now that it's been caught, the owner of that company is now going to be in hot water with whatever Chinese Communist Party officials he gives bribes to for making them look bad. Things don't go well for those who party officials feel need to be cut loose and made an example.

This philosophy isn't unique to the US. Damn the consumer, hail the shareholder.

As I chew my aspirin. Some reason I have it in my head that they would work faster that way plus I like the taste . Why I like the taste I have no idea but I do

just reading that you chew your aspirin made my face jump to contortions.

but I don't go out of my way to savor the flavor.

I love the taste of aspirin, and I know why. My parents would occasionally give me one when I was sick. Bring too little to swallow it whole, they would have me chew it up when I was sick. (This was way before baby aspirin and way, way before anyone said not to give aspirin to babies.)

That was about the only time they paid me any attention at all. I came to associate the taste of aspirin with parental love. To me, it is comfort food. I'm just lucky I didn't become a hypochondriac.



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Now that its confession time, when I was a kid I liked the taste of chalk too

We used to eat it by the handful.

if you ever have signs of a heart attack, chew it while you're waiting for the ambulance. Some of it is absorbed through your cheeks and the rest gets into your bloodstream faster if there is no pill to break down.

It also feels great if you've got a really bad sore throat. Ice cream and popsicles feel better, but if you're trying to bring down a temperature at the same time, go ahead and chew it and get double benefit.

For headaches, not so much.

Still...

there is. How much could they possibly have saved by leaving out the active chemical in that? I just don't understand where the economy comes from.

and the answer will probably be more clear..

the actual aspiring should be fairly easy to detect on opening the bottle. Real aspirin will smell slightly of vinegar when you first open the bottle. If not, then there's probably no aspirin in there. Not a strong smell, which would indicate a breakdown of the active ingredient, but a slight vinegar smell is normal, especially when you first open a new bottle.

Personally, I always sniff medications before taking them.

is acetylsalicylic acid, which I learned to synthesize from salicylic acid and acetic anhydride in undergrad organic chemistry class. Commercial production is a straightforward process that imposes nothing approaching economic hardship upon the manufacturer.

Chinese manufacturers have really proven themselves to be evil bastards in recent years, and I can think of nothing worse than the case a few years back where melamine was put in infant formula:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

Even though I remain steadfast in my opposition to capital punishment, I wish those running domestic companies were held to the same legal responsibility as those involved with the scandal mentioned above. Besides, US companies are still buying pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs from Chinese companies, despite an abysmal record of contamination that is most definitely criminal.

else to harm anyone in this fake shit.

Industrial and Agricultural regulations seem to be nonexistent there.

I try not to buy any products from China, but China has monopolized our marketplace and sometimes I am forced to buy the inferior Chinese product because nothing else is available.

Does China make ANYTHING that hasn't been adulterated?

have gutted their QA programs for every product- this is happening with food clothing shelter, everything.
The hoops we used to go through to make sure clothing is safe and durable are mostly gone. Only super high liability/ bad publicity issues are dealt with. No one ever says "This price is too good to be true", and looks deeper.

if anyone thinks veges from China marked "organic" are really organic, I have a bridge, broken bridge to sell you.

PB

China is no more true to Marx than was the USSR. Their state apparatus exists to allow state capitalism to work.

--I wonder where they come from. I am trying online to find out but so far cannot. Maybe someone on DU knows.

i'll believe that there's some serious counterfeiting going on here but if you look closely at what they actually SAID:

they're accusing them of shipping a powder that was "mostly glucose and contained no active ingredients" "hidden in a cargo of tea".

what? really? tea and... and... sugar? say it ain't so! the bastards!



oh and just to be clear, i'm sure the pic is a stock pic of aspirin.

like i said, i'm sure actual counterfeiting is going on, but the article is not very convincing!