Pass The Ammo

Just read this in our local paper.

Outsourcing can put you out of touch
Posted: Sunday, Aug 05, 2007 - 02:36:39 pm PDT
By HARVEY MACKAY

Turning a blind eye to product quality can be dangerous to your health. In June, the former head of China’s food and drug agency became the ultimate object lesson: Zheng Xiaoyu, who ran the Chinese equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration for seven years, was executed for taking bribes and “dereliction of duty.”
Chinese prosecutors maintained that under his watch a host of people in Panama died from cough medicine laced with toxins of Chinese origin and more than a dozen babies in China perished from milk powder with no nutritional value. His demise is yet another bombshell for global outsourcing.

The risk to Americans doesn’t just come from goods imported here from China. Fifty-six percent of China’s outsourcing came from orders placed by Japanese and Korean firms. Many of these products end up as components or finished goods sold in the states. Read More…