Dumping

Made in the USA and dumped in Brazil, Africa, Iraq etc

When it comes to the safety of young children, fire is a parent’s nightmare. Little wonder that when fire-resistant children’s pajamas first hit the market, they proved an overnight success – more than 200 million pairs were sold, Like a bolt from the blue came the news that the pajamas were potential killers – the pajamas contained the flame resistant chemical Tris (2,3 dibromoprophyl), which has been found to cause kidney cancer in children. Because of the toxicity, the sleepwear could not even be disposed off.

Soon however ads began appearing in the classified pages that there was a buyer to buy all the Tris impregnated wears at 10 to 30 percent of the market price – the intent was clear – to dump the carcigonic products on overseas market. This was not the only product. There were the 450,000 pacifiers causing choking deaths and also the 5000 people who were hospitalized after eating wheat and barley treated with a US banned organic mercury fungicide. Winthstrol, a synthetic male hormone that were found to stunt the growth of American children was made available in Brazil!

Manufacturers that dump products abroad are motivated by profit or at least to avoid potential losses arising from banned products from the US market. Why do governmental and population control agencies approve for sale and use oversea a birth-control device proved dangerous in the US? They say their motives are humanitarian – because the death rate in children is high in 3rd. world countries, any birth control device is safer thanpregnancy. Analogous arguments are used to defend the export of pesticides and other products judged dangerous for use in US.

Unfortunately, in the case of pesticides, the effects of overseas dumping is coming home in the form of imported food products!