Since we already have a thread about food scandals, this one is for other things people might want to know about.
If it can happen on one side of the Strait, I reckon it can happen on the other side.
Formaldehyde is present in the printing inks used in books, magazines and newspapers.
The verdict?
Doctors told the couple to confine their collection to one room and improve ventilation in their home, while experts suggested they get rid of some of the books.
You think you got trouble? Both at home and at work I am surrounded by mountains of newspapers, magazines and booksā¦some dating 50 something years ago.
And here I was worried about being so close to the printing machines and the resulting dust!
How about our 30 year old vinyl floors? And the asbestos/styrofoam ceilings?
Just as an aside we (or rather my wife) started using Japanese detergents for doing the laundry and she is astonished at how much fresher and cleaner the clothes are.
Theyāll say something like 'Taiwan year and then just say sri Lanka tea and Taiwan tea and not have any info on what type of tea or % of each.
Or olive oil margarine (or whatever healthier oil) but not state how much of it is olive oil. It could be 1ā° olive oil and 99ā° stuff that will kill you within 5 years!
Milk and dairy products such as yoghurt in particular are a disaster zone.
Then beer is another one where they donāt state the ingredients and calories.
You literally have no clear idea of ingreidents and how they have been produced.
It might have been you who mentioned āfake milkā. I actually bought one of these by accident - I mean, I was in a hurry and didnāt bother to read the ingredients list, and it said āFresh Milkā in English. Later on I checked: it wasnāt milk. It contained milk powder and water, corn syrup, and a bunch of other stuff I canāt recall. Iāll be checking more carefully next time.
To be fair, you get exactly the same problem in the West. Iāve seen āyoghurtā sold in both the US and the UK with ingredients that simply are not yoghurt by any stretch of the imagination - HFCS, starch, the usual suspects.
Anyway, I was referring though to manufactured food items which literally donāt have an ingredients list, not even a vague or abbreviated one. I canāt remember what the items were, now - if I see them again Iāll post the names.
The statement said some of the products were found to have bristles of metal brushes from the manufacturerās production line in the lens solution, while others were found to have irregular solution concentration levels that resulted in irritation of the eyes, so the company decided to recall them.