Another Quality Product From.....................

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......China. Chocolate that moves.

http://video.nbc10.com/player/?id=150551

We will never purchase anything made in China. Never.

[andsome]

YUCK! YUCK! 10,000 times YUCK!. I agree with your sentiments regarding food, but I have never seen any Chinese food imports here. Regarding other goods, we have little choice these days, almost everything sold here is now made in China.

[Gandalph]

Looks a bit similar to the Cadbury dilemma.

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YUCK! YUCK! 10,000 times YUCK!. I agree with your sentiments regarding food, but I have never seen any Chinese food imports here. Regarding other goods, we have little choice these days, almost everything sold here is now made in China.

As long as you keep purchasing their inferior (and sometime dangerous) products they will gladly continue to produce them for you.

[CurlyWhirly]

It's enough to put you off chocolate

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The Chinese have given us toys painted with lead paint, fake diabetes test strips, fake medicines and now.........chocolates contaminated with worms. They could care less about you........they only care about themselves.

Until they are held to a strict international quality standard such as ISO or QS they will continue to find ways to send us inferior products.

The companies purchasing these products also need to be held to higher standards on their imports and quality standards.

[Gandalph]

The Chinese have given us toys painted with lead paint, fake diabetes test strips, fake medicines and now.........chocolates contaminated with worms. They could care less about you........they only care about themselves.

Until they are held to a strict international quality standard such as ISO or QS they will continue to find ways to send us inferior products.

The companies purchasing these products also need to be held to higher standards on their imports and quality standards.

I agree. It is retailers greed that has brought this blight upon us. They buy for peanuts and sell at huge profits and in the long run it is the buyer that suffers. The Chinese also flood the market with fake Rolex, Cameras and you name it they can make it. It's no wonder their economy is growing fast.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

I didn't watch the original video - the reactions were enough for me.

But then... who would want to buy chocolate from China...? If I buy chocolate (rare enough), it will be from Switzerland or Belgium. Anything else is not fit to be called chocolate.

[-pops-]

I agree with you, Pat.

I am not a "sweetie" person and an 85% or so cocoa solids chocolate bar is the only concession I make to eating sweets. Well, perhaps 70% if I must.

[andsome]

As I said, I would not buy food products from there. Unfortunately as has been pointed out, the importers of other goods have grown fat on imports from there, and make vast profits. People buying these goods for cheapness when all this started, have caused the demise of thousands of British and continental manufacturers, therefor unfortunately if we want a product now, it is unavailable from elsewhere. Even the odd bits of manufacturing that we have left, have to incorporate Chinese components in their products. Originally, we brought this upon ourselves. Forunately with a little effort, we can avoid buying such basic products as food from there.

[-pops-]

Off at a total tangent but I've just bought a new Seagate drive. There is a sticker on it saying "Made in China". Taiwan, I could have expected but China?

[rong]

Why is so much blame being put on the Chinese, when they are only supplying what the importers are asking for, if the importers paid for better quality then I am sure the Chinese would supply it as is probably the case in Seagates case, they can't afford to sell you inferior goods as the word spreads very fast.

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Why is so much blame being put on the Chinese, when they are only supplying what the importers are asking for, if the importers paid for better quality then I am sure the Chinese would supply it as is probably the case in Seagates case, they can't afford to sell you inferior goods as the word spreads very fast.

Because they have no quality standards nor any safety standards. Because they are selling fax medical products such as diabetes test strips. Because they are selling contaminated food. Because all they seem to care about is the almighty dollar.

That is why so much blame is being put on the Chinese.

[rong]

I still think you should be blaming the importers that are supposedly from more up to date countries and "have no quality standards nor any safety standards" "Because all they seem to care about is the almighty dollar"

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I still think you should be blaming the importers that are supposedly from more up to date countries and "have no quality standards nor any safety standards" "Because all they seem to care about is the almighty dollar"

I agree that they have their share of blame in this.

[catgate]

There is a simple way round all this.

In a former life I was Quality Assurance Manager with a large multinational for very many years. We bought raw materials, and sometimes finished product from many parts of Europe.

Our system was simple. If the Purchasing Dept. wanted to purchase anything from a new source they had to notify me. Then either me or my number 1 would go and discuss our specification with their technical people. First of all to see if they understood it and then why it was necessary to adhere to it. At the same time we would do an audit of their systems for controlling the quality of their production, and this would include microbiological environmental control if necessary. As well as auditing their own specification system we would check the control and testing of their incoming raw materials and in-house production. They received a fairly thorough going over.

If they did not come up to our standards I would inform the purchasing manager that this potential supplier should not be used. If they did come up to our standards then the purchasing dept. was given the go ahead but with certain conditions. Such as a member of my dept, should be present for the couple of production runs of material for us. We also insisted that we should subsequently be able to visit their plant when we wanted when they were doing a "run" for us.

We also used to inform them we would expect product quality certification from them for every production batch, and that until we were confident that the certification was meaningful I would have regular stringent testing carried out by my raw materials testing lab. Once we has established the confidence to do so we would drop back to a BSI statistical testing scheme.

It seemed to work very well. We had little trouble when they understood that we were serious about quality.

It was helped even more by the fact that my department was part of the R&D division and as a consequence the marketing and production people could exert no influence at all on this procedure except by involving the MD.

[andsome]

I bet the Aussie Aboriginals would relish those chocs and grubs. :lol:

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Could make great bait balls for fishing!