Some Chinese painted ceramics are lead contaminated

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:25:58 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:


LOL! Touch?.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
J. Clarke wrote:

The California proposition process has resulted in some good and some
kooky laws. Which are which is a matter of political opinion. Good
hearted intelligent people can and do gather together the same facts and
then use them to come to opposite political opinions.

So you're saying that a law that informs people of toxins is a bad idea?
I get how that can interfere with free commerce. I get how that can
increase prices. The labels can also be used to apply pressure on both
merchants and manufacturers. There's also the problem that ingredients
tend to be on the market for a long time before it is learned they are
toxic - Figure that out and the market for such products drops much more
quickly in California than in other regions. Is your objection in that
list?
 
A couple years back China exported to us all those toys with lead
paint all over them, not to mention the poisoned dog food that killed
about 2,000 dogs in the US. They know they can get away with it
because we are dependent on them and have no choice but to buy their
crappy products. There was a time when MADE IN JAPAN meant shoddy
products, but these days the Japanese products are really good and
MADE IN CHINA is the words you should avoid.
 
In article , [email protected] says...

It doesn't inform people of toxins. It puts a toxin label on just about
everything, so there is no information conveyed.


No. My objection is that the labels are so commonplace as to be
meaningless.
 
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:34:21 -0700 (PDT), "Michael O'Connor"
wrote:

How about putting some guts back into the agencies that are supposed
to protect us from that cr*p?


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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
Michael O'Connor wrote:

Give them time. The quality of their products is improving as least as
fast as the quality of Japanese products did. Their labor costs are
starting to rise as well. It took decades for Japanese labor to become
more expensive than US labor. How long before the same happens in
China? Their one child policy ensures that it will happen quickly.

Labor continues to move across the world but there are only so many
places it can go. Once the entire world is industrialized the advantage
of cheap labor will be gone. I wonder if I will still be alive when
that happens. I expect my granddaughters will still be in the
workforce when that happens.
 
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