Something new that has bad ingredients in it on the shelves.

This is really becoming problematic. I personally feel that it is time to stop importing products. Apparently other countries do not have as tight of controls as our manufactuers do! Also, to make things in our country would increase jobs for our people. I know that doing so would raise the price of goods a bit, but I would rather pay a few cents more for my toothpaste and dog food and LIVE than to die of some god-awful disorder!

I know I can't understand how this happens either. I hadn't heard about the toothpaste that is awful. And all the recalls on dog food not to long ago. How did RAT poision get in that?? Makes you wonder. My husband and I think that all these people getting cancer now days is due to the food we are eating and the stuff they have in our foods etc. One never knows

I heard this, but there is a huge list of things that are being turned away from China because they are not quality, let alone poisoned. The USDA group that monitors imports recently found meat in boxes labeled clothing (which has been an illegal import for many years from China). People ask why this happens. Well, the system used for inspection was built in the 1950s before there was world wide trading. This system has not been upgraded and therefore is very behind the times. It has been a ticking bomb. Granted, they have stopped the import of many many dangerous wares over the years. I read recently (I believe it was in an article on CNN), that a small percentage (I believe is was 20%) of imports are inspected and of the percentage, more than half of things inspected are turned away for various reasons - including boxes not being marked, dirty fruit, etc.

I heard about this too and am appalled. On one hand, I keep asking myself why we (U.S.) would evey import something like toothpaste from China...just like the dog food ordeal...why were we using products from another nation to make something that a living animal would eat? On the other hand, I am amazed that someone, anyone, would actually put something like this in toothpaste. I mean, we are all human.

Oh yes, I started hearing this the other day....What the hell is going on here..I mean who would think a simple common, ordinary everyday product like toothpaste could turn out to be lethal?? Supposedly its not a threat here in America...but then who knows?? I found a link of what this discussion is about http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18841928/

Unbelievable! I wonder what brand it is. This reminds of the big pet food scare that's been taking place. Whatever it was was causing pets to die, have kidney problems, etc. That freaked me out, because we (the public) dont have any control over this. Those poor defenseless animals...

Yes, I had heard about this on the news a day or two ago! What in the world is going on with these producers? You would think that they would have found this problem BEFORE putting it out on the shelves! They should have anyway! You just almost don't want to buy anything else from the stores anymore!

I haven't heard of this, but most toothpaste in general contains SLS (sodium lauryl sulphate) which is a detergent. It's the ingredient responsible for the foaming and it's also the main ingredient in industrial floor cleaner. "They" say that the tiny amount present in toothpaste has never proven to be harmful. I think we'd all be surprised if we started digging deeper into the ingredients of the products we use.