Chinese Pulls Johnson’s & Johnson’s
After all the sickness and deaths that Chinese products have caused over the last few years, they are now up in arms against the cancer causing chemicals said to have been found in some popular baby toiletries.
They have pulled J & J’s products from over 3000 of their stores in one Chinese city so far. J & J’s has said again that they do not add the chemicals, and that the trace amounts found have been deemed acceptable by our FDA.
Is this the new China who is now concerned about the health of their people to the extent that they would pull the products before even finishing their own lab investigations? Or is this vindictive China who is trying to get back at the US for nailing them on the heperin and formula situations? Or maybe a combination of both?
Melamine in Our Infant Formula
They announced on the news today that traces of melamine were found in a couple of our infant formulas. Good Start was named and Enfamil Lipil.
My dear grandson has been drinking the Enfamil Lipil since the first week of October. They haven’t said they are recalling the formula probably because the FDA doesn’t know what the safe amount is of Melamine that an infant can have without being harmed.
Over 53,000 babies in China were sickened by the chemical that was intentionally added to the formula over there. Four or Five died from it.
We’ve got a call in to a nurse we work with however with Thanksgiving tomarrow, I doubt she’ll get the message to get back to us. With the FDA not reacting I’m sure the answer from the medical community will be that it’s only trace amounts and not to worry. Somehow that doesn’t make us feel any better.
China Cracking Down on Melamine Eggs
China says it’s cracking down on feed manufacturers after finding melamine tainted eggs. This melamine hunt came about after finding melamine in pet food and animal feed.
China says they have closed 238 animal feed companies and have destoyed over 3600 tons of tainted feed. Those that are discovered dealing in melamine tainted feed will lose their business licenses and face criminal charges and prosecution.
It makes you wonder how widespread this melamine contamination goes. It’s already killed several infants and sickened tens of thousands of others. Now we find that it’s been used in animal feed, and who knows what else.
Even if the people who did this were not aware of the terrible health problems melamine poses, they certainly did know that they were diluting the original product and at the very least cutting the quality. With it in the feed will it be in the meat that people will eat? I’m sure we’ll have an answer to that very soon.
Melamine and Halloween Candy
Melamine is the chemical that is making all those babies in China sick. It makes milk look like it has more protein than it actually does so that the manufacturer can stretch out the original product.
Canada has issued a warning about Sherwood Brands chocolate coins sold in 840 gram packages that contain 240 pieces. Lot code is 1928S1 and UPC code 0 36077 11240 7. Sherwood Brands says this applies to Canada only and none have been shipped to the US.
They say that chocolate is not being shipped to the US from China since the melamine was discovered, and that all of it’s products are tested for Melamine before being shipped to Canada and the US.
Cadbury has taken several products off the market in Austrailia, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, but said the products in the US and Canada are safe.
Although no candy has been cited the FDA warns against consuming this list of products.
- Koala’s March Crème filled Cookies
- YILI Brand Sour Milk Drink
- YILI Brand Pure Milk Drink
- Blue Cat Flavored Drinks
- White Rabbit Candies
- Mr. Brown Mandehling Blend Instant Coffee (3-in-1)
- Mr. Brown Arabica Instant Coffee (3-in-1)
- Mr. Brown Blue Mountain Blend Instant Coffee (3-in-1)
- Mr. Brown Caramel Macchiato Instant Coffee (3-in-1)
- Mr. Brown French Vanilla Instant Coffee (3-in-1)
- Mr. Brown Mandheling Blend instant Coffee (2-in-1)
- Mr. Brown Milk Tea (3-in-1)
Of course do not use any infant formula that’s made in China
How Backward Can China Be?
China has decided to come up with it’s first real food safety law. How old are the Chinese people? First now they are coming up with a major food safety law? Almost 4 thousand babies have been made sick, 3 are critical and 4 have died, because middlemen added melamine to watered down milk to make it seem like it had more protein in it. This is what sickened all those poor infants and this is not the first time this has happened.
This is shameful for a people that have always considered themselves so honorable. I realize that there are greedy bad people in every country who would do something like this to improve their profit line. However, when this kind of thing happens in the US, the government or some agency comes forward right away to make some kind of legislation so that it can’t happen again. China knows that it has a big problem with fake medication and food being sold and sickening people, they’ve known for a long time and first now they are taking it seriously.
Shame on you China, shame on you!
Battens Disease, A Parents Nightmare
In case you haven’t been following the news you may have missed the story of little Hailey and her mom Miranda’s unfortunate encounter with Air Canada and Air China.
Hailey, who is five, has Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses or Battens disease. She has lost some brain function, has seizures ( at least 50 a day, down from about 500 ), is going blind, and does not even have enough function to clear her throat or eat enough to live. She has had a feeding tube put in and her parents have to clear the constant congestion in her throat themselves. There so far is no known cure and children with this disease die before they are teens.
Hailey’s mom Miranda and her husband Eric have tried all kinds of medications. diets, therapies, treatments, but to no avail. Hailey is getting worse. If this isn’t bad enough for these parents to deal with, they have a younger son who also has this disease.
Miranda was told by some other parents of children suffering from Battens, that there is some very hopeful stem cell implantation’s being done in China. Hailey will require three trips for the treatment at a cost of $50,000 each, and her little brother Carter will also need three trips at about $35,000 each.
They were accepted for the treatment and finally there was a glimmer of hope. The trip started out fine until they had to switch planes in Canada. Hailey was very congested and the airline people at Air Canada would not allow Hailey to fly. Miranda tried Air China, but those people too were ignorant and refused to take them. Hailey and Miranda had to fly back home, devastated.
Congressman John Yarmuth of Kentucky heard this story and is trying to help make arrangements for Miranda and Hailey to go to China.
I find it ironic that these airlines will fly a kid with a deathly allergy to peanuts knowing that there could be some on board somewhere, but won’t fly a child to try and save her life. Canada and China, what a surprise. The people who were involved in losing some of this child’s precious time should be deeply ashamed of themselves.
The family has a blog set up called Hailey & Carter’s Dream. They need to get the word out and raise money for the other trips and treatments, so visit the site and help if you are able.
Heparin Contamination Not Accidental
It has become clear that the contamination of the drug Heparin was deliberate. It is also clear that our friends in China where the contamination took place, are not going to allow us to get to the bottom of exactly who did it. China says that they want the right to inspect our drug factories if we expect to be able to inspect theirs. Huh? The Chinese are way out of line on this and as a country whose people are supposed to be so honorable, seem to throw out that honor when money is involved. You see while heparin costs $900 a pound, the contaminant costs only$9.00 a pound. You do the math.
The US is not the only country that was affected by this contamination so I am anxious to see what action other countries will take against this company in China. I also wonder how far the Chinese government will go to protect guilty parties.