AP: Up to 100K Houses Built With Contaminated Drywall from China
I can't be the only one who's avoiding just about anything made in China:
At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short supply, American construction companies used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was abundant and cheap.
Now that decision is haunting hundreds of homeowners and apartment dwellers who are concerned that the wallboard gives off fumes that can corrode copper pipes, blacken jewelry and silverware, and possibly sicken people.
Shipping records reviewed by The Associated Press indicate that imports of potentially tainted Chinese building materials exceeded 500 million pounds during a four-year period of soaring home prices. The drywall may have been used in more than 100,000 homes, according to some estimates, including houses rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina.
“This is a traumatic problem of extraordinary proportions,” said U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat who introduced a bill in the House calling for a temporary ban on the Chinese-made imports until more is known about their chemical makeup. Similar legislation has been proposed in the Senate.
One of the ingredients they used was fly ash. You remember fly ash, don't you?
Neither the authority nor the E.P.A. has released the results of tests of soil or the ash itself. Authority officials have said that the ash is not harmful, and the authority has not warned residents of potential dangers, though federal studies show that coal ash can contain dangerous levels of heavy metals and carcinogens.
“You’re not going to be endangered by touching the ash material,” said Barbara Martocci, a spokeswoman for the T.V.A. “You’d have to eat it. You have to get it in your body.”
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation also released a statement saying there was no indication of risk unless the ash was ingested.
Personally, I think breathing in particulate matter counts as ingested. But that's just me! Oh, and look out for leather furniture, too.
Just wonderful.
OH, FRIST!
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Whatever it takes to NOT buy from them. Even it if it means buying NOTHING.
Hopefully, this story will gain some traction and put to rest once and for all the myth that China's phenomenal growth over the last 20 years is indicative of "better" economic policies and conditions. Indeed, China’s remarkable growth, initiated by Deng Xiaopeng in 1978, has not come without a price. The rapid and extensive industrialization prompted by Deng’s economic reforms has resulted in widespread degradation of the envirnoment and has compromised the health and safety of China's population. While workers flood China’s largest cities looking for economic opportunities, sanitation and pollution controls have not keep pace. Among other environmental problems facing China:
● China is home to 16 of the world’s 20 most polluted cities.
● Water pollution affects approximately 70 percent of the country.
● Air pollution has been blamed for the death of some 400,000 Chinese per year.
● China emits as much sulphur daily as Tokyo and Los Angeles combined despite having only a fractions of the automobiles.
● Experts forecast that solid waste production will more than double by 2014, making China the world’s leader in solid waste.
(The Economist, August 19, 2004).
Consequently, China is faced with a burgeoning crisis. China must somehow achieve a balance between its expectations regarding future growth and the heath and welfare of its citizens before the latter compromises the former. Whether China has the will to achieve this balance is an open question.
According to testimony delivered by Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies, on September 22, 2004, to the House International Affairs Committee:
In 2001, the World Bank reported that 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world were in China, and in 2002, almost two-thirds of Chinese cities tested failed to achieve standards set by the World Health Organization for acceptable levels of total suspended particulates, which are the primary culprit in respiratory and pulmonary diseases. Acid rain, resulting from sulfur dioxide emissions from coal burning, affects over one-fourth of China’s land, including one-third of China’s agricultural land, damaging crops and fisheries throughout affected provinces. China’s dramatic growth in automobile use poses the greatest future threat to China’s air quality. China today has over 20 million cars, trucks, and buses; 20 million agricultural vehicles, and 50 million motorcycles. By 2020, conservative estimates suggest that China will have 110 million cars; critically, national standards for carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide are well below those in the United States.
(http://www.cfr.org/publication/7391/congressi...)
As Ms. Economy correctly points out, one of the main factors fueling China’s pollution crisis is its reliance on coal to power its growing number of factories and cities. While coal is both abundant and inexpensive to mine, its use is not without cost. Burning coal produces large quantities of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulates, and releases mercury into the air. Chinese cities lead the world in the amount of airborne sulfur dioxide and particulates.
Source: The World Bank, Clear Water, Blue Skies: China's Environment in the New Century (The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1997), Figure 1.1, p. 6.
Approximately 70 percent of China’s electricity is generated by power plants burning over 7 million tons of coal per year. In contrast, only 56 percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is produced by coal plants. The relative impact of coal-burning plants in China versus U.S. plants is further magnified by the poor quality of the coal used in China and superior pollution control technologies employed by coal-burning plants in the United States. (Id.) Consequently, the amount of sulfur, mercury and other harmful products released into China’s air by coal-burning plants is staggering. As detailed in the August 19, 2005 edition of Economist’s View:
China has tens of thousands of small mines that pay scant attention to environmental concerns or safety . . . Such neglect helps keep costs down, so most of China's electricity comes from power plants that burn high-sulfur coal. Worse, few have effective emission controls, a big contributor to the acid rain that falls on one-third of the country.
(http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsv...)
Estimates indicate that acid rain falls on about 30 percent of China’s mainland. (Id.) The problem is so pronounced that China's 2006 carbon dioxide emissions surpassed those of the United States for the first time, by eight percent, even though the number of cars in the United States, approximately 243 million, vastly dwarfs the number of vehicles in China, approximately 28 million. (http://www.bts.gov/publications/national transportation_statistics; http://www.chinaguide.org/guide/china-statist...) Moreover, the trend is headed upward. “China used 2.1 billion tons of it in 2004 -- more than the United States, the European Union and Japan together. Even if the Chinese economy only continues to grow seven percent annually, its coal usage would double to 4 million tons within ten years.” (http://www. spiegel.de/ international/spiegel/0,1518,461828-2,00.html)
Even Beijing, China’s capital city and host of the 2008 Summer Olypics, is unsafe. “On many days of the year, Beijing is covered by a dome of pollution made up of the exhaust gases from more than 2 million cars, as well as the dust from construction sites and cement plants. ‘The government doesn't want to talk about it before the 2008 Olympic Games, but the level of exhaust gases in Beijing's air is dangerously high,’ warns a high-ranking government official. Satellite measurements have revealed that Beijing is covered by a blanket of nitrogen dioxide of previously unheard-of proportions.” http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/ 0,1518,387392,00.html)
Water pollution is also a problem in China. Chinese waterways and other groundwater sources have been heavily damaged by industrial concerns, municipal sources, and agricultural interests over the last thirty years, as China’s water distribution network has failed to keep pace. “Half the rivers are so polluted that their water cannot be used by industry or agriculture.” (http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3978) Again, according to Economist’s View:
Some 70% of China's lakes and rivers are heavily polluted, largely because more than 80% of its sewage flows untreated into waterways. What's more, even where waste-treatment gear is installed, some companies opt to pay fines rather than operate expensive equipment. Regulators say that while most major industrial plants have water-treatment facilities, one-third don't operate them at all and another third use them only occasionally.
(http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsv...)
Making matters worse, China’s water treatment efforts are almost non-existent. “Both municipal and industrial wastewater is inadequately treated -- only 5% of household waste and 17% of industrial waste received any treatment as of 1996, according to the UNDP and Chinese authorities.” (http://www.wri.org/biodiv/pubs_content_text.c...) Consequently, polluted waters are utilized by citizens downstream for irrigation and household use, resulting in significant health problems, including waterborne diseases like cholera, typhoid and dysentry. (http://www.chinaenvironment.net/sino/sino5/pa...)
The lack of wastewater treatment infrastructure has resulted in “widespread contamination of drinking water supplies, and in turn resulted in significant episodes of illness. Statistics show that sewage is the leading contributor of contamination to water supplies, i.e., piped water, surface water, and groundwater, and that sewage contamination produces more cases of illness as compared to chemical and pesticide contamination.” (Id.)
Frankly, in my opinion, the next emerging industry is going to be pollution controls and bioremediation in places like China, and India. These countries cannot sustain this model.
....there is much more crap that is more dangerous than drywall or lead paint coming out of China that we don't even know about. We will pay the price years from now.
And NO, I don't subscribe to the Glenn Beck "End of the world" theory.
and with more and more people out of work and on public (low income) health care...... forced to buy their household goods from cheap big box retailers like Wal Mart, who buy all their cheap crap from China.....
I just fail to see how its actually "saving us money" to use Chinese made goods.
look at the most recent pictures of Chinese scenery. its disgusting and full of smog.
look at the pictures of their citizens at the bottom of the class ladder. riddled with infections and scars.
think about the cavalier attitude with which they deliberately sold their own citizens tainted milk.
the leaders of Chinese industry care *NOTHING* for humans, outside of their own class and demograph. they care *NOTHING* for us Americans, their biggest customers.
we traded our jobs, for poor health. what a rotten deal.
the best thing, would be for a massive series of lawsuits. every time we buy a tainted Chinese-made product from Wal Mart, sue Wal Mart. forcing Wal Mart to sue their supplier or distributor.
if neither Bush, nor Obama, nor our Congress, are willing to re-write the tax code to make it profitable for America's business leaders to bring jobs back..... then sue America's business leaders for selling dangerous products, until fear of litigation forces them to bring our jobs back.
the reason Chinese-made products are so cheap, is because they are un-inspected. its time we cut our losses, and cut our contracts. put America's manufacturers (and America's QA inspectors) back to work!
it was safe for the 9/11 rescue workers?
what is everyone worried about?
The FDA/CDC allow pharma to regularly inject aluminum and mercury (it has never been completely removed STILL) from childhood vaccines and they say it isnt a problem.
OK, before you start a panic regarding any use of fly ash in building materials, first note that the article you link to says that the problem contaminant is currently unknown , specifically:
"Researchers do not know yet what causes the reaction, but possible culprits include fumigants sprayed on the drywall and material inside it."
Fly ash is actually a very common ingredient of domestic drywall and is more and more frequently mixed in with cement. In fact, using fly ash is widely viewed as a green building practice because it is recycling a waste product. I highly recommend people who are concerned to google "fly ash" and "green building" Or go to www.usgbc.org - the organization behind the LEED green buiding certification - and type in "fly ash" into the search.
To the extent that there may be a difference between the fly ash that U.S. manufactures use and what the Chinese may use is how the fly ash has been treated. Again from the article:
"Fly ash can be gathered before it ever reaches the smokestack, where technology is used to remove sulfur dioxide from the emissions. The process of “scrubbing” the smokestack emissions creates calcium sulfate, or gypsum, which can then used to make wallboard, experts say."
I worked in industrial cleaning for quite a few years. Including a couple of the local coal fired generating stations, and their next door drywall manufactures.
i don't eat anything from china. avoiding buying anything from china is impossible. i call wal-mart china -mart. our entangled relationship with china is basically for no-rules capitalism. we borrow/sell our debt so we can buy their crap. NOW goggle is going to continue to allow china free online music since 99% of them pirate the music. goggle will try to get advertisers to absorb the burden but that model is NOT used here in the states......a double standard. it's interesting i realize china has come along way and we have helped but it's a communist country with poor human rights yet our corporation want to have everything made their. they just want to take advantage of "cheap labor"/NO rules. they are trying to establish that model here.....less union(s),less benefits and less pay. the world is changing before our eyes.
they're about as "communist" as obama is. try fascist; perhaps not a perfect fit, but certainly closer.
There is no difference between communism and facisn to the person living under either. They are both totalitarianism. The only difference is the rhetoric used to put them in place. Obama is rapidly making the US a totalitarian state where everything is government-owned and/or government-controlled, call it what you like.
So let me get this straight. They're claiming we bought contaminated drywall from China because our own drywall industry couldn't keep up?
Oh. Wait a minute. Now I get it. What it will really come down to is that it was CHEAPER to get drywall from what apparently is the most toxic country on the face of the fuckin' planet.
It's obvious to me Halliburton must have major investments in Chinese industry. Thanks a lot, Cheney. Please eat shit and expire horribly.
If you want to do something, stop shopping at Wal(China)Mart. Boycott the bastards and stop pouring our money into the sweat-shop Chinese industries.
Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years
sounds like, "i stole it because i couldn't afford it". these are hypocrites. it's okay until you get caught and even when you get caught NO big deal small consequences. yeah it's good thing they were able to build a lot of homes so people could get the "liar" loans to purchase the homes. the "cheap labor " used to put up the drywall was NOT going to say anything in fear for their jobs/status. i agree don't support the CHINA sweat shop. i also don't support the U.S. illegal "cheap labor" sweat shop strategy the corporations and elites are trying to do here in the states.
Inhalation and ingestion are not interchangable.
If it hits your saliva, it's being ingested.
to go into your digestive system than your lungs. Not recommended either way, but your digestive system has a heartier barrier to your blood stream than your lungs.
You're not the only one. I've gotten meticulous about checking labels. Not that I have money to buy much these days, but you can't be too careful.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
so the smell might not be so bad...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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Q U E S T I O N:
Why weren't those homes built with drywall...
... "MADE IN AMERICA"?
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Feed Americans.
I'm afraid there are many factual errors associated with this story. For one thing drywall made from fly ash is actually an ecologically friendly product. http://blog.ecolect.net/tag/drywall/ The gypsum that derives from the scrubbing units on coal fired plants is exactly the same composition regardless of origin but doesn't come from China because they don't use scrubbers on their coal plants yet. It has nothing whatsoever to do with fly ash which is the residue left over from the combustion of coal and is no different from the ash in your fireplace leftover from burning logs. It is mildly toxic at best (no worse than Portland cement) and is very commonly used as a low grade cement in paste fill systems in mines. If you pile it up and let rainwater leach through it can cause problems in aquifers. I'm not sure what,if anything, might be wrong with drywall made in China but I believe I'll wait to see what chemical analysis will show. Frankly this sounds like an attempt by Gypsum mining industry to derail the competition
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I agree. The information here is lacking at best, and hardly seems enough to come to any sort of conclusion with. There was another story that Susie referenced a number of days ago about the recent earthquake in Italy. It was also somewhat lacking in evidence. Hope it’s not a trend…
If the Chinese car doesn't kill you and the Chinese toy doesn't kill you and the Chinese house doesn't kill you and the Republican war doesn't kill you and you don't kill yourself because of the Republican economy, congratulations you made it. It's what's called the new standard for making it in America.
We have had a Democrat congress for over 2 years and a Democrat President for several months now. At some point you will have to stop blaming Republicans.
"Most of it came into the country in 2006, following a series of Gulf Coast hurricanes and a domestic shortage brought on by the national housing boom."
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Considering the Democratic Congress to which you refer was not elected until November of that year, I believe that this oversight was done during te reign of your Rethug pals.
But thanks for playing...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Oh now we're back to talking about the drywall, I thought you were talking about the economy when you referred to the Republican economy. Sorry my mistake.
The Republicans had 12 years of control of Congress along with control of the White House for 6 of them. I find it funny and somewhat sad that you would equate that with a year and a half of Democrat control of Congress (a very slim majority at that) along 3 months in the White House.
The more I hear Republicans post this rhetoric the more I know that the party is in trouble.
because the bad economy IS thanks to the Republicans. Deregulation occurred under 20 of 28 years of Republican administrations and 16 of 28 years of Republican majorities in Congress.
The fact that any adult can think 2 years of a slim Democratic majority against a filbustering Senate and Republican administration, plus a mere 10 weeks of a Democratic President, indicates any kind of responsibility for the mess we're in, is laughable. We can only thank the stars we don't have gramps McCain and Bible Spice sitting in the WH right now.
assigning responsibility to the party that says they're all for responsibility.
Like the whiny kid said, "Everything I do, they blame on me!!"
For the previous eight years, Repukes controlled fully two branches of government and dominated the third for the first six. At some point, Repuke trolls are going to have to suck it up and admit that their party is a total fucking failure.
"[A] a Democrat President for several months now"? Not even three months yet, numbnuts. You're reaching, and grabbing air.
The company that imported this drywall to America was American.
So the first question to ask is " What QC Program was in Place?'
Fly ash is is a Pozzalin which is a substitute for cement which has been in use in America for some 40 years.
The best and longest lasting concrete is in Italy where pozzalin based concrete has been is use since the Roman times.
I know people that are acting as agents to import products from China. Those people have have no clue what QC is or what they are importing.
China is a problem but look to the American's that are making money on the China/US trade.
Medieval walls are often contaminated with the corpses of children who were buried alive to protect the edifice.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
My grandson has a small white message board in his bedroom. I was commissioned to purchase a new set of dry erase color markers by his Mom (my daughter.) TWO different BRANDS of four-color-packs were hanging next to each other at WalMart. The "EXPO" brand is clearly marked as made in the USA... and cost about 35 cents more than the "made in China" brand. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
I'll bet nine out of ten people out there would buy the CHEAPER ONE because it's cheaper. I'm sorry to admit that I was even IN WalMart, because, I agree that it's like shopping in Shanghai. I think WalMart's price-CRUSHING policies have RUINED a big chunk of the American retail economy... and I do examine the labels all the time.
I paid the extra few cents for the MADE IN USA product. That's what we ALL SHOULD DO.
I paid the extra few cents for the MADE IN USA product.
Anybody who doesn't has nobody to blame but themselves when their economy goes tits-up. Simple.
Seems like once the drywall is sealed with primer and paint it would not pose a heavy metal risk via inhalation. It is the unfortunate people who cut and sanded the drywall and others exposed to the dust during the building process who would have been inhaling heavy metal laden dust particles. This is similar to how farm workers are for the most part the ones exposed to high levels of pesticides and herbicides, not consumers.
Reagan-worshippers, rejoice! Reagan's visionary world is upon us: A world with no regulation!
A world where bankers are free to steal from taxpayers!
A world where children are free to consume lead!
A world where everyone, regardless of social standing, is free to get mad cow disease!
A world where the polluters regulate themselves, which means nobody gets regulated!
A world where pets are free to die from tainted pet food and babies are free to die from tainted baby food!
And most of all, a world where the richest media mogul is free to choose what we believe!
I don't know if anyone has told you but Ronald Reagan passed away some time ago. He is no longer President. The vogue thing to do now is to blame everything on George W Bush, but he too is no longer President. Unfortunately it is considered racist to blame anything on the current president.
It is considered stupid to blame him for things that occurred before he became president. If there is anything that happened in the last hundred days or so that you'd like to bitch about feel free to chime in.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
...I mean next you will be bitching about a blow job in the White House.
us, it is very apt to blame him still. But it also goes to the people who rely heavily upon 'Ronnie's Philosophy,' at least the one that was manufactured for him to sell. And in the future, when much of what we will be doing is cleaning up after George Bush, it will be apropos to blame him in generations. It's 'rulership' like Reagan's and Bush's that put us behind socially and civically by generations.
This guy is just trying to shovel up the hugest steaming pile ever left behind. It's a Herculean task.
me-oww!
and don't waste your time (okay like I did) responding to him. He can read up on history himself.
that was carrying a brand new metal chair in a clear plastic bag.
I asked her where she bought it and she said that actually she bought it the day before at a box store.
She was now carrying it onto the bus because she was returning it. It was made in China and the chair had been heat seal bagged before the paint was dry. When she got it home on the previous day she discovered that everywhere she had handled it by the bag to carry it home it was missing painted surfaces that had spread away from the metal supports.
There is a difference in quality when the importing country employs inspectors like with some Apple Computer products.
At the price we pay for Apple stuff, you'd think it could be made once again in Milpitas, California by Americans, even if components are imported.
Gremlins (1984) - The Kitchen Scene (2:10) YouTube
The plastic bag was the clearcoat...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Chinese drywall was not used cause it was cheap. Chinese drywall is actually more expensive. It was not necessarily more abundant either. Chinese drywall was used solely because american drywall companies could not meet the demand the housing boom had put on it.
I quit buying any jewelry from there. I don't need the lead.
Jeanne
Who rejects merchandise that is made in China? And I'm not even boycotting, I'm just concerned about poisoning my family or something.
Another one here!
Don't bash coal power. Drywall would be a lot more expensive without coal power plants. Why you ask? Well FGD's, (Flue gas desulfurization) which help cut the SOx emissions from coal plants.
If you take the SO2 and used some limestone (CaCO3) or lime (Ca(OH)2) in the presence of some water and Oxygen, you wind up with CaSO4*2H20, aka gypsum, aka the main ingredient in drywall. So you transform an air pollutant into a building material. Cheap electricity and cheap building material with far less pollution - truly a great thing!
No one is forcing anyone to buy Chinese products, and no one is forcing anyone to work under conditions they don't wish to. Can we all stop being victims and accept personal responsibility for our actions?
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
.....with your Republican leaders?
Forcing has nothing to do with it. When one works installing gypsum board and it contains fly ash that is not disclosed as an ingredient then one is a victim. There are such things as victims you know. Of course, it is becoming more apparent that if one buys something or works with something one should look to see if it is manufactured in China. If it is then one should remember that there is a relatively high probability that it is tainted in some way and consider the possible risks. As a side note: On earth there are many people who are in fact forced to work under conditions they do not wish to work under. What planet are you from anyway?
used in US drywall along with concrete and a few other things. And most construction material I've seen does not come with a ingredient list, no matter where its made. I used to work in industrial cleaning and the company I worked for had contracts with a coal fired generating station and the drywall plant right next door. They had conveyors to run the stuff over.
Edit I take that back there is quite a bit of material for construction that does contain a ingredient list. But those are usually mixes and such.
There is no evidence that the drywall is tainted yet the title of this article says Contaminated Drywall from China. This is not journalism, more like yellow journalism. In the article it says the drywall is potentially tainted. The US is forced to buy from China because the Chinese are financing the purchases.
Nawh. I've lived out in the Baltimore/D.C. area. They call blue ground clouds of pollution "fog" there.
I don't know about everyone else but I'm sick and tired of our jobs moving to china,this is just another example of how poorly the products are made and adds to the fact that china don't give a damn about who it hurts,first they kill our pets and now they are trying to kill us,You can't just blame Walmart for pushing chinese made goods because every where you go you can't buy anything thats not made in china.Our Government needs to start putting heavy taxes on chinese imports and give more tax breaks to companies to stay here in this country,I know this will make some people mad but the Unions in this country have got to go they are only adding to the problem with all their demands constantly striking and wanting more,more,more.Unions were a good thing when they were first started because of the unfair treatment and pay of the American worker,now they are simply pricing this country out of our jobs that is one reason all the companies are leaving for china and also mexico,which brings up NAFTA that is another thing that has to be restructured or dismantled,we are getting screwed twice on that one we are sending jobs to mexico and still the Illegal Immigrants keep coming and our do nothing government is to worried about hurting someones feelings to do anything about it!
Unions raised living standards to the point where illiterates could buy computers and post rambling bullshit on the internet with them. You should be thankful for that.
yeah well you can thank the Unions for doubling the cost of living and destroying the auto industry,there is no union worker worth 70.00 an hour they don't give a dam about keeping our automakers from going under all they care about is how much they can get for themselves
That you parrot the "$70 an hour" myth is proof that you're too fu
cking stupid to understand that you've proved me right. Good day, troll.And you are too fucking stupid to see past all the Union bullshit,I think the 70.00 an hour myth you speak of was actually based on the average it cost to build a vehicle in detroit,the UAW are the highest paid workers in this country when you add in all the benefits and retirement,but You idiots are never satisfied all you want is more even when your jobs are at stake.Union's are just helping put the nail in the coffin of our country's industry
Who is still allowing importing cheap, inferior products, from China after all the scares?
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"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
really crappy internet connection here.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Did everyone complaining about stuff from China continue to eat peanut butter and (now) pistachio nuts from the US recently? The issue is not country of origin, but morally corrupt business practices by corporations (here and abroad) and the single focus on profits only.
in this article: AP: Up to 100K Houses Built With Contaminated Drywall from China ...
it stated ...It is mildly toxic at best (no worse than Portland cement) and is very commonly used as a low grade cement in paste fill systems in mines....
Portland Cement is not a China owned company, it is a Japanese Corporation. The Taiheiyo Cement co.
http://www.taiheiyo-cement.co.jp/english/top....
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