Tainted Toothpaste

The FDA is advising consumers to throw away toothpaste from China.

A ban on all imported toothpaste from China has been enacted by the FDA on Friday, June 1, because the agency wishes to err on the side of caution. The FDA is asking consumers to report any problems experienced to FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting.

The FDA's bombshell resulted in a brusque retort from the People's Republic of China chief of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, (AQSIQ), who said that "up to 15.6 % (of the chemical DEG) is safe for prolonged use." China's contention is that experimental human testing done to 1,965 people over an extended time with 15.6% DEG toothpaste is proof enough that the toothpaste is acceptable. China has issued a statement charging that the DEG poison warning was "irresponsible" because nobody has died yet in the United States.

These are real products that China is rigorously defending, not illegal or counterfeit impostors. The syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is being used as a fake saccharine-like sweetener. The AQSIQ said the ingredient is legally registered as a dye within the United States. The FDA attests that United States laws ban diethylene glycol to be used in toothpaste.

In 1937, a mass DEG poisoning is what gave the FDA the onus to pre-approve all new drugs. The FDA allows DEG to be registered because it's specifically registered for use in California, a state with an enhanced set of environmental health and well-being statutes. Most countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia have allowed zero DEG to be registered to be used for any specific product.

The mass poisonings in Panama are from counterfeit "99.5 percent pure glycerin'. As reported in the New York Times , a retired salesman for the Taixing Glycerin Factory was quoted "TD means "tidai" which means substitute." The Panama mass poisonings originating from the Taixing Glycerin Factory, is still advertising on its website, " Famous for its TD Glycerin". Now the factory is infamous for the worldwide mass poisonings resulting from its fake glycerin.

The State Food and Drug Administration, P.R. China, (SFDA), said that it has no jurisdiction in the Panama case because the factory is not certified to make medicine. Nothing was done then later, SFDA announced that the matter was handed over to AQSIQ, who has denied that assertation. China has just recently sentenced to death, Zheng Xiaoyu, former director of the SFDA.

In Panama, Chinese-imported strawberry bubble gum Mr. Cool Junior toothpaste, has been found to contain more than 50 times the safety limit. Shi Lei from Danyang City Success was quoted, "DEG has been used for years." China has finally admitted to the poisoned Panamanian toothpaste on May 23, and is considering marshaling a recall. Panama has already removed the poisoned toothpaste.

Australia's current import laws has a legal loophole that toothpaste falls into because it is neither considered a food nor a drug, granting passage of poisoned indigestibles.

DEG is found in the USA imported brands, Cooldent Fluoride, Cooldent Spearmint and Cooldent ICE. Acceptance rate of China's exports to the United States is 99%. For the last 20 years, there have been DEG mass poisonings in many countries, of which several were originated from China.