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Personal Care
This Blog relates to the products that you use everyday, such as: Toothpaste, Supplements, Deodorant etc. Do you ever consider how these products are made and what they consists of?
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Know Your Toothpaste - Part 2
KNOW YOUR TOOTHPASTE
PART 2 of 3
This is very disturbing –
This is part of a report written by Joseph S. Enoch of ConsumerAffairs.com on May 24, 2007
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FDA Bans Toothpaste from China
Foreign-Made Toothpaste Found in Many Discount Stores
These efforts will not affect major brands such as Crest and Colgate as their U.S. products are made in the U.S. However, many of the illegal tubes we discovered were Crest and Colgate, manufactured overseas and illegally imported. Although the Crest and Colgate tubes failed the FDA’s labeling requirements, they all contained the FDA’s fluoride dosage requirement, making them safe for use.
“Regardless of the country where we manufacture it, Colgate toothpaste is made in strict adherence to our global safety and quality standards,” Colgate spokesman Tom Paolella wrote in an e-mail.
The FDA’s increased scrutiny will likely be aimed at knock-off brands.
The one illegal tube of toothpaste we discovered from China is called “Classic” and is packaged in colors and a font similar to that found on Crest products. It does not contain diethylene glycol, but appears to be many years old and does not have the correct labeling.
When shopping at discount stores, consumers should ensure the product has the drug facts labeling that includes: a list of active ingredients, a description of the product’s use, warnings, directions, a list of inactive ingredients and a toll-free phone number.
FDA's Problems
The toothpaste alert follows Congressional and Government Accountability Office charges that the FDA is not doing enough to protect American citizens from dangerous foods and drugs.
While FDA spokeswoman Veronica Castro did confirm that it was in fact illegal for those tubes of toothpaste to be sold in the U.S., the agency’s spokespeople, including Castro, refused to say whether the manufacturer, distributor, importer or store would be held legally liable.
Agency spokespeople also refused to say what penalties might be applied and how the tubes made it past the FDA’s import inspectors. Agency spokespeople then refused to say why they refused to comment.
To be continued – PART 3
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