The Empire Strikes Back (Forbes.com)

Jeff Stier continues to ask the tough questions in this Forbes.com piece:

As we enter a trade war with China, are our toxin fears founded?

Scaremongering U.S. regulators have been indiscriminately attacking products from China for years, and China recently struck back. Shanghai’s equivalent of our Food and Drug Administration investigated baby products made by Johnson & Johnson, echoing claims by a coalition of U.S. activists that the products pose a threat to children because they contain trace amounts of the “carcinogens” formaldehyde and 1,4 dioxane. That China opted not to ban the products is good from both scientific and economic perspectives–and we should learn from this brush with product banning.

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