From TOI
Some Indians are gleeful about the terrible bashing China's image has taken after a spate of scandals about the quality of its exports to the US.

l Toothpaste and medical exports contained toxic antifreeze, passed off as glycerine

l Gluten in pet food contained toxic melamine, and poisoned thousands of American dogs and cats

l Fish were contaminated with banned antibiotics and chemicals

l Toys contained banned lead paint

l Juice exports had unsafe colour additives l A toxic dye was used to colour egg yolks red

l Pork was tainted with clenbuterol, a banned feed additive

l 450,000 tyres were found unsafe, liable to burst
The problem extended beyond exports. An internal Chinese survey in the first half of 2007 disclosed that one-fifth of the products of 6,300 factories had quality or safety violations. A reporter of the Los Angeles Times, who was investigating a case where bribes saved a company from penalties for light bulbs that exploded, was kidnapped and threatened by company employees. They told him that complaining to the authorities would not help him: they were the de facto authorities.

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