One of the companies I am a Director of buys products from China and it is a constant battle to stop them short-cutting the manufacturing and quality processes to make more money. They will buy sub-standard steel, skip inspection checks and lie through their teeth to feed their greed.
It therefore comes as no surprise to me that, as reported today, there are 22 brands of Baby milk in China responsible for using the banned chemical melamine to artificially enhance the appearance of Protein in the milk. At the time of writing, 6250 babies are reported ill, 158 have acute kidney failure and 3 have died.
China has grown in recent years at a ridiculous rate. They are having to learn the lessons learned in other advanced economies much faster than anyone else had to and this is causing an enormous amount of greed. They clearly haven’t yet learned the lessons from last year’s lead-painted toy fiasco that if they short-cut the specifications for a product, it will go wrong and they will get caught out.
Any company which buys from China, and that’s a significant portion of all companies in the western world, has to make sure that it is on top of it’s inspection and quality procedures. Trust me, those procedures will be tested!
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