After the whole toys with lead issue was all over the news, I keep hearing these scary stories about products made in China being harmful. I don’t remember who it was who told me they are putting anti-freeze in toothpaste and who knows what else.
I’m one of those people who take everything with a grain of salt, but since it’s been all over the news I have to give it some credit. I guess I’ve become more aware of where things are made (or maybe paranoid?), and I have to admit I breathe easier when I read “made in” places other than China. Maybe I’m stupid, maybe I’m not.
This morning I received an e-mail from a friend, and I thought “Great, another FWD…” – When I looked at it and saw it was about sandals made in China causing very bad skin reactions, my first reaction was going to Snopes.com to see if it was just an urban legend. Well, apparently it is NOT. They claim it happened, and here’s the story. I don’t know if it’s just one case, I don’t know if it’s the lady’s skin being extra-sensitive, but it does make me think. I guess I will enquire more about it.
For the time being, I like my new champagne flutes, made in U.S.A. ;-)
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In order to get cheap labor and products, money has to be saved, and the big place to do that is in the resources used to make the products. It’s likely whatever was in the sandals isn’t going to have any effect on you or me or 99 out 100 people. Some people have sensitive skin and companies are including chemicals in products that can be irritating. The solution? If you have sensitive skin, don’t buy 3 for $1 flip-flops.
I experienced the same issue she had with a pair of flip-flops I once purchased, except I didn’t have my head up my ass and stopped wearing them immediately and made a timely trip to a dermatologist. It never got close to the point that I had to make a website to display my dumbassery.
Yes, I was thinking that woman let it get too far.
Yikes! No way will I ever be tempted to buy cheap thongs* after reading that. Even considering senstive skin, that must have been quite a strong chemical in the rubber of the straps to have such a reaction.
*Yes, just to be confusing, in aussie land we call flip-flops thongs, and what others call thongs we call g-strings. heh
Lets put it this way, after first the pet food melamine disaster and then the antifreeze toothpaste debacle, the head of China’s food and drug safety administration was executed…
’nuff said!