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2007-06-04 China-Japan-Koreas

China stonewalls poison toothpaste claim; disses FDA

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-06-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Calling the FDA warning "unscientific, irresponsible and contradictory,"

This from a country who sent up their first spam-in-the-can astronaut almost a HALF-CENTURY after we did.

China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement posted on its Web site late Saturday that low levels of the chemical have been deemed safe for consumption.

"We feed our citizens antifreeze all of the time and only a few of them ever die from it. What's the big fuss with you guys?"

... monkfish that turned out to be toxic pufferfish

"Poison poison tasty fish!"

"Come on, pal! Fugu me!

... drug-laced frozen eel

You say anago, I say unagi, let's call the whole thing off!

juice made with unsafe color additives.

"Mmmmmmm ... day-glo irradiated fake juice!"

DEG was blamed for the deaths of 51 people in Panama after they took tainted cold medicine. China has admitted it was the source of the deadly chemical but insists it was originally labeled as for industrial use only.

"This tainted cough sylup was stlictry for the consumption of rathes and hydlauric stamping machines onry! Any idiots who imbibed it cannot have regar lecoulse against us. Am I creal?"

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-04 02:13|| 2007-06-04 02:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Did anyone else expect anything different? The standard Chinese response is the same as the Clinton response: deny, deny, deny. They're trying not to lose face. They can't ever admit anything, because that would seem to hint that they were not infallible, and every Chinese knows that his country is the best in the world - criticism from outside, regardless of how legitimate it is, is not welcome.

And Zenster, Chinese don't confuse their r's and l's like that. The Japanese do. Please try not to be so muddle-headed in the future.

Posted by gromky 2007-06-04 02:32|| 2007-06-04 02:32|| Front Page Top

#3 No glot clum Flyday.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-04 04:09|| 2007-06-04 04:09|| Front Page Top

#4 g: And Zenster, Chinese don't confuse their r's and l's like that. The Japanese do. Please try not to be so muddle-headed in the future.

It's a little more esoteric. There is no L sound in Japanese. So many Japanese substitute the R sound for the L sound. Which means that "late" comes out sounding like "rate". Similarly, there is no R sound in Cantonese (who comprised most of the first Chinese immigrants to the US, and mostly spoke not a word of Mandarin, which has both R and L sounds). They substituted the L sound for the R sound. This means that when Cantonese immigrants pronounced the word "rice", it came out as "lice". Mandarin speakers don't have this problem - they have other ones.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-06-04 04:39|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-06-04 04:39|| Front Page Top

#5 glomky, ya' have to admit, Zhang Fei got ya p0wned. ;-)

Posted by twobyfour 2007-06-04 05:03|| 2007-06-04 05:03|| Front Page Top

#6 China just doesn't get it. If they want to send their crap into this country it must meet OUR standards, not theirs. It's called rules, and they seem to have a real problem with the concept. As if it's not enough that they break every clause of every trade agreement that they have ever made with us, send us poisoned pet food, and spy on us relentlessly.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-04 12:08|| 2007-06-04 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Get us the HELL out of China and their sphere of trade NOW,it'll be hard to do and take time, but if we dont want to get Phucked by these commie assholes we have no alternative.

Posted by Omaiter Bourbon8038 2007-06-04 12:28|| 2007-06-04 12:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Word, bigjim.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-04 14:33|| 2007-06-04 14:33|| Front Page Top

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