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In an attempt to assure the world's children that the millions of Chinese-made toys currently being recalled for containing toxic lead paint and tiny choking hazards can no longer hurt them, high-level Chinese officials announced Tuesday that millions of playthings are being rounded up and immediately put to death.

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The boss of a toy company commits suicide after his company's toys are recalled.

"Lee Der made 967,000 toys recalled earlier this month by Mattel Inc. because they were made with paint found to have excessive amounts of lead. The plastic preschool toys, sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the U.S., included the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters.

Because of the recall of made-in-china toys by US toy giant, a HK businessman, whose factory manufactures bulks of these recalled toys, could not foot the bill and committed suicide in his factory in Foshan, Guangdong province, China. The toys are found to contain toxic lead paint.

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it had discovered the toxic chemical melamine in infant formula made by an American manufacturer, raising the possibility that the problem was more extensive in the United States than previously thought.

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Even companies that sell products to “wash-out” evidence of drug use
often fail to offer information about how such substances can allow
cheating on a blood drug test. The following article doesn't question
the effectiveness of such substances, but it does question the ability
of a drug user to satisfy the specific requirements of the test

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States added farm-raised fish and shrimp to a growing list of Chinese products deemed unsafe for US consumers, regulators said Thursday.

The US Food and Drug Administration said it would block the import of farmed Chinese seafood until importers could prove the shipments were free of unsafe contaminants.

The move comes just days after lawmakers urged a recall of up to 450,000 Chinese tires because of safety defects and weeks after thousands of cats and dogs died because of tainted Chinese pet food.

A summary of the recent New York Times report about how some uncertified, unregulated chemical companies in China are actively pushing pharmaceutical ingredients onto the world drug market.