Originally Posted By: loneryder
Originally Posted By: c502cid
While I would kinda sorta trust Walmart to inspect and monitor something like this, I wouldn't. I do a lot of business in China and I bring suitcase loads of different items to them because they don't trust their own products. For instance I bring a lot of baby formula each trip out there. I would never buy any pet food or treats from China either. Of course as I say this, I use Chinese toothpaste every day and have for years so you are probably ok
That's interesting that they don't trust their own products. I have received quality manufactured stuff from China but I don't think they have any oversight on drugs etc. They counterfeit a lot of stuff.
There was a rash of infant deaths in China from companies there manufacturing baby formula with some cheap chemical to make the protien content test falsely higher than it was. When it got too big to be covered up, there was big outrage in a country with a 1 child policy at the time.
There was a spate of pet deaths here from pet treats imported from China someone had played some similar chemical games with.
I have a difficult enough time with pharma from India, hopefully meds I depend on won't be shifted to Chinese manufacture. 60 Minutes had a feature some years ago where the daughter of a pharma company executive in India was continuing to get worse with his company's drug, they finally in desperation treated her with the brand name drug from a Western factory and it saved her life. That pharma exec said on camera he would never give his family products from his company again and advised anyone needing that medication yo insist on name brand.
But like many the health insurance I have pretty much insists on generic if available to be covered. I've had generic prescription medicine from Singapore (which was a self-administered injection), as well as generic prescription meds from India, Israel, and Mexico, and so far, I'm still here.