In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Quality Counts
By Janet Evans
Monday, Jun 16 2008, 07:15 AM
Over the past year we’ve heard about many products made in China being recalled because of lack of quality control. We’ve got companies outsourcing to China, but guidelines aren’t being followed in all cases.
When a company in the U.S. has parts of their products being made in China, or other countries, they are required to send representatives to those countries as auditors to make sure federal procedures are being followed.
So who are we to blame? China, or our U.S. companies for not auditing properly and then accepting the imports?
The most recent scare being investigated in China is one that could impact your whole family if you owned the product involved. A tire-stem valve…..
“For its part, NHTSA says the Tech recall is a good enough reason for consumers to have tire valves checked. But until the Dill investigation is complete, there's not enough basis for a national alert. "We monitor all forms of vehicle equipment, and we're always on the lookout out for abnormal rates of failure," says Rae Tyson, a NHTSA spokesman. "We are looking at every aspect of these valve stems.... We can't presume defects till we've completed an investigation." In response to public outrage over contaminated pet food and lead paint on toys made in China, Congress moved last year to bolster the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. But a bill to boost commission funding and force it to notify consumers of unsafe products more quickly has not yet passed. The agency does not oversee tires.
"Congress and whatever agency [involved in overseeing Chinese imports] don't do enough," says Peter Navarro, a business professor at the University of California at Irvine. "It's very hard because they're understaffed and underbudgeted."
Read about it on the Christian Science Monitor
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