The sad truth about China's tainted products
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 4:30PM WORLD NEWS: "Tainted Baby Formula Blamed in Chinese Kidney Cases," by Loretta Chao, Wall Street Journal, 12 September 2008, p. A10.
ARTICLE: Chinese to tighten dairy testing, BBC, 17 September 2008
Point I made in an old column and reiterated in Great Powers: When there are safety short-cuts being taken, the exporting population typically suffers more than those who import, because that laxness reflects a general rule-set laxness throughout the producer's system.
Our system will catch the tainted products and will respond, but China's far weaker regulatory system lets the tainted baby formula penetrate deeply into local consumers, to the point where Chinese babies suffering adolescent kidney stones (something I know much about).
Point being: the more we crack down on this stuff from afar, the more we help the Chinese people in addition to our consumers. So pursue that sort of rule-set exportation very vigorously, because it's God's work.
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