Did Someone Ask Oh Gawd What Next? - Firm Sues Chinese Co. For Metal Shavings In Aspartame

[DeSwiss]

Firm Sues Chinese Co. For Shavings In Aspartame

Aug 18, 2007 7:01 am US/Central

(STNG) CHICAGO Libertyville-based DMH Ingredients has filed a federal lawsuit against Changzhou Kelong Chemical Co. Ltd., saying DMH found metal shavings in 11,200 kilos of aspartame artificial sweetener the Chinese company shipped in 2005.

DMH seeks more than $174,000 from the Chinese company to cover costs DMH had to pay Wisconsin-based Sturm Foods, where the metal shavings were discovered, the suit says.

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_230080400.html

*** - Okay here's the plan. We don't eat, drink, sleep, wear any clothes or take any medicines. Oh, and no brushing of teeth either. Then we should be safe. We'll be sick and dying, exposing those tires around our middles and we'll smell really, really bad. But we'll be safe....

[MadMaddie]

1. Wow....it just doesn't stop does it....?

[DeSwiss]

4. Not yet....

...and when Marvin sang the song that said, "everyday there's something new," I'm sure he had no idea that he was talking about our future foreign trade policy....

[aquart]

2. Free market kills.

[DeSwiss]

6. This is beyond "FREE".....

...this is reckless abandon. And TOTAL GREED.

[MadMaddie]

7. That would make a good bumper sticker wouldn't it?

[treestar]

3. Freeper heads explode as their theories on unregulated

capitalism and regulated "frivolous lawsuits" fall apart. Look at China, they're not regulated (obviously)

:rofl:

[DeSwiss]

5. A Boolean search....

...for the word "China" would produce "0 hits" on the Freeper site, right now I'm sure....

[krispos42]

18. It's cheaper to make a dangerous product and cover it up...

than make a safe one in the first place.

So much easier. Lawsuits take years to resolve, but you can settle with a giant airtight non-disclosure agreement and a few-thousand-dollars-a-plaintiff payout.

Or intimdation works, or the occasional unfortunate accident involving a cement truck. That kind of thing.

[treestar]

26. Like the infamous Pinto case, where Ford decided it was cheaper

to pay out the damages rather than redesign the vehicle.

[krispos42]

27. Right. An extra plate welded on to prevent the fires would have cost like $4 more

But....


And also, they defend themselves vigorously even when wrong just to discourage lawsuits in the future. Give up NOTHING without a fight.

[Wiley50]

8. Why are You Bitchin' about Getting Iron-Fortified Nutrasweet for the Price of Regular?

Americans just can't be satisfied!

[Hekate]

14. Oh, I see: That's not a bug, that's a feature! LOL. nt

[DeSwiss]

15. Well call me picky....

...if you want to, but I prefer that when taking my iron supplement that I not have to follow it up with a trip to my oral surgeon.

Hey, I'm funny that way....

:rofl:

[Hekate]

9. That was me, over at the post about formaldehyde in children's clothes and toys.

I have a two and a half year old grandson... This is just nuts.

Hekate

[DeSwiss]

16. Ohhhh....

...now I remember. I was you Hekate. You don't use this stuff do you?

I stopped using it years ago when I found out that it was invented on Donald Rumsfeld's watch at Seale in Chicago (I believe it was Searle if memory serves). It was originally being tested as an "anti-ulcer" drug. It was banned for 16 years by the FDA (before it became totally corrupted). I figured it out even back in the 70s that if Rumsfled had anything to do with it, it couldn't be any good. I remembered who he worked for (Nixon).

DeSwiss

[LiberalEsto]

10. Are they sure it wasn't aspartame

in their iron shavings?

I can't figure out which is worse for you.

[DeSwiss]

17. Well.....

...you'd be taking your chances eating iron shavings, no doubt. On the otherhand, they've known that aspertame causes cancer almost from the start when it was invented. I'd take my chances with the shavings....

[Bluebear]

11. Frivolous lawsuits! Shyster lawyers! Anti-competitive!!!111

[Disturbed]

12. How long has China been producing poison products?

I wonder if they sell this crap to their own people.

[Bluebear]

13. Poppy has been kneedeep in the Chinese economy since the 70's

Who knows?

[krispos42]

19. Considering their air and water quality...

they probably don't notice.

[DeSwiss]

20. I'm sure its probably worse for the Chinese....

...at least if they're eating and wearing the stuff they make for the US. Plus all that toxic crap ends up in their water systems and soil.

On another note, many people are probably not aware that most of the vintage electronics that we throw away -- things like that old 286 or 386 PC, printers, televisions, and every other type of electronic devise imaginable -- many of them find there way onto barges and are shipped to China, India and other poor Southeast Asian countries where people bid on lots so that they can tear them apart for precious metals and other substances that are then resold to electronics makers.

The simplest way to get at these metals is burning. And of course the smoke is highly carcinogenic. And the people stand at their fires protecting them and separating the metals, exposing themselves and their children. And, in the absence of federal laws, there are only a few U.S. communities that mandate the proper disposal and recycling of this crap in the country right now....

Discarded computers, televisions, radios, batteries, cell phones, cameras and other gadgets contain a stew of toxic metals and chemicals such as lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium, brominated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says American consumers generated nearly 2 million tons of electronic waste in 2005. Gartner estimates that 133,000 PCs are discarded by U.S. homes and businesses each day.

Only 10 to 15 percent of electronics are currently recycled, industry analysts say. The rest collects dust in people's homes or gets dumped into municipal landfills, where environmentalists worry toxic chemicals can leak out.

Among the e-waste that is recycled, activists say, up to 80 percent is exported overseas to dismantling shops where poor workers are exposed to hazardous fumes and chemicals while trying to extract valuable metals and components.

Researchers for Greenpeace International have detected high levels of toxic metals in soil and water samples collected around electronics-dismantling workshops in China and India.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/tech/20070303-1101-recyclingcomputers.html

[DeSwiss]

21. Yeah!!!

Who the hell are these people who want to live and not get sick? Selfish assholes the lot of em'.....

[NYC]

22. Recommended.

People need to be warned.

[madrchsod]

23. the manufactures involved

http://www.sturmfoods.com/about.html
Sturm Foods

http://www.dmhingredients.com/
DMH Ingredients, Inc.

[billyoc]

24. Yeah, here's the thing, you'll actually have to hold your breath, too:

China is finding its many coal-burning power plants hard at work generating the much needed electricity power – as well as huge amounts of air pollutants like sulfur dioxide and mercury. The earth's climate system, however, does not recognize national borders, and that is how increased quantities of Chinese pollutants have joined, what the authors in this article call, a global "conveyor belt of bad air."

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=5058

[Bitwit1234]

25. Read the labels...nothing from China

A can of fruit or vegetables will say packed by so and so but imported from China. They all have that on the can. And when you buy something that doesnt list where the ingredients came from...ask ask ask.