The story continues ( melamine in pet food, poison in toothpaste? )
I received this via email because of the alerts I signed up for when I was tracking the Menu foods pet food/melamine poisoning crisis.
Diethylene glycol, a poison, has been found in 6,000 tubes of toothpaste in Panama, and customs officials there said Friday that the product appeared to have originated in China…
…Diethylene glycol is the same poison that the Panamanian government inadvertently mixed into cold medicine last year, killing at least 100 people. Records show that in that incident the poison, falsely labeled as glycerin, a harmless syrup, also originated in China.
There is no evidence that the tainted toothpaste is in the United States, according to U.S. government officials.
From the International Herald Tribune
Bookmarking for now, more complete write up to follow when I have time. For now, it seems worth observing that the thesis: “global markets without global governance are unsustainable” looks truer all the time, at least if we value niceties like safe food and consumables.