Tainted Consumer Goods: A Moral Tale [The Corpus Callosum]

Published: August 5, 2007, 2:48 pm

There is an article in the Christian Science Monitor about the history of tainted consumer goods. The author, Jane Whitaker, points out that the USA has a history of problems ever bit as bad as what we are seeing now from China, and makes the point that we should not be so quick to judge. That is a fair point, but there is another equally fair point to be made. America's history of tainted consumer goods Critics of Chinese products shouldn't be so quick to judge. By Jan Whitaker from the August 3, 2007 edition Northampton, Mass. - If future historians ask which developing economy was the bigger counterfeiter of consumer products – China or the United States – it won't be easy to decide. Product adulteration is neither a foreign monopoly nor a new issue. Current scandals might lead people to believe that food and product safety regulations were the natural evolution of business and good government. But it took consumer outrage to bring needed changes

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