Investigative Report: U.S. ships unsafe products

[Robbien]

Source: The Sacramento Bee

Ten days ago, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced another in a series of well-publicized recalls of Chinese-made goods: children's art sets containing crayons, markers, pastels, pencils, water colors -- and lead -- distributed by Toys "R" Us.

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But 13 months earlier, in July 2006, the CPSC, without a press release or corresponding media attention, authorized a Los Angeles company to export to Venezuela 16,520 art sets that violated the same CPSC standard protecting children from dangerous art supplies. The following month, the agency authorized a Miami company to export to Jamaica 5,184 sets of wax crayons that also violated the standard.

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Using the CPSC's database of exports of non-approved products and hundreds of pages of documents obtained through the federal Freedom of Information Act, The Bee found that between October 1993 and September 2006, the CPSC received 1,031 requests from companies to export products the agency had found unsafe for American consumers. The CPSC approved 991 of those requests, or 96 percent.

Agency spokesman Scott Wolfson said the CPSC is simply following export notification law "as Congress spelled it out for us." But CPSC Commissioner Thomas Moore strongly objected to the policy.

"Our agency, through our governing statues, cannot claim much moral superiority over the Chinese, or any other foreign country, when it comes to our own export policy," Moore said in a list of his legislative proposals submitted to Congress in July. "Our export policy is based on a desire to see U.S. manufacturers be able to compete in foreign countries in terms of price and marketability, not safety.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/368866.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. Well - they shipped flawed Salk vaccine

forty or so years ago so I guess not too much has changed

edit : if anyone thinks I made that up then start here and carry on searching : http://www.laleva.cc/choice/vaccines/vaccines_whyNOT.html

[skids]

2. Pesticides...

...not allowed here? Clear for export to farms elsewhere.

Globalist "free trade" is just a way to slink around progressive laws and standards and to make money off the chaos that surrounds attempts to reconcile laws and standards between trading partners.

[dipsydoodle]

3. The generic expression for such things

is products which fuck brown people.

[NYC]

4. And us.

We sell the (unacceptable in the U.S.) pesiticide to a foreign country, then buy back their produce. No labels, no warnings. We consume the pesticides. Lucky us.

[Nite Owl]

5. And still the GOP screams about

regulations put on businesses and how they don't need regulations because if the did something harmful the market would punish them. That hasn't worked out so well for us has it? They can't be trusted not to poison us, they can't give workers a living wage, they have to ship jobs overseas to make their bottom lines. What does this say about the system, about capitalism itself then.