This is sort of a follow-up to the pet food stories. Seems as if the Chinese learned very well the US business plan of how to cut costs.
May 6, 2007
From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine
By
WALT BOGDANICH and JAKE HOOKER
The kidneys fail first. Then the central nervous system begins to misfire. Paralysis spreads, making breathing difficult, then often impossible without assistance. In the end, most victims die.
Many of them are children, poisoned at the hands of their unsuspecting parents.
The syrupy poison, diethylene glycol, is an indispensable part of the modern world, an industrial solvent and prime ingredient in some antifreeze.
It is also a killer. And the deaths, if not intentional, are often no accident.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/wo...poison.html?hp