Reporter, Los Angeles Times
Reporter for the Los Angeles Times and co-author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning report into Walmart's business practices, as well as extensive reporting on the Mattel toy company
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Abigail Goldman
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FROM Abigail Goldman
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Chinese Imports and Product Safety Confidence in the label "Made in China" is crucial to that nation's economic expansion. Back in August, the international safety scare had caught the attention of Chinese officials. After medicines turned out to be fakes, the former regulator of food and drugs was executed. After Mattel recalled millions of his products, a toy maker hanged…
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Chinese Imports and Product Safety Unsafe tires. Tainted food and toothpaste. Millions of toys with lead paint and tiny magnets. The safety of those products is raising serious questions in the US and, with confidence in the label "Made in China" crucial to that nation's economic expansion, the international safety scare has caught the attention of Chinese officials.
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