Thread: WARNING: DOLLAR STORE TOOTHPASTE

Subject: Dollar Store Toothpaste(s)

I don't know if any of you watched Channel 5 News last night, but they did an investigation on dollar stores (including Dollar Tree, Greenbacks & 99 Cents). They discovered the Crest, Colgate and other brand name toothpastes weren't the same as from Wal-mart, grocery stores etc. The toothpastes were manufactured in many other countries and are not approved by the American Dental Association (ADA). There was even some from South Africa and the fluoride is ten times stronger than what we're allowed in the U.S. (prescription strength). They're allowed stronger because they don't have fluoridated water (like we do). So if we (or our kids) use it often and occasionally swallow it, we could be poisoning ourselves. The dollar stores declined to comment and a full investigation has begun. So stick to paying full-price at the grocery store and send this e-mail to anyone who shops at dollar stores.

Origins: The last several years have seen the strong growth of dollar stores, outlets in which shoppers can find a wide variety of household items — everything from canned goods to motor oil — in one convenient location, with everything priced at $1.00 or $0.99 per unit. (No more sales clerks holding up check-out lines waiting for price checks!) Sometimes the merchandise found in dollar stores is just the same as what one might purchase elsewhere for a considerably higher price, but dollar stores sell it more cheaply because they've obtained supplies from manufacturers and wholesalers who are disposing of overstock or older merchandise for a fraction of the usual price. Often the items sold in dollar stores are inexpensive because they're produced and marketed by smaller brands, made from lesser-quality materials, of foreign manufacture, or were just cheaper merchandise to begin with.

One of the items more commonly purchased through dollar stores by budget-conscious shoppers is toothpaste. Everyone uses toothpaste — why pay $2 or $3 per tube in a grocery or drug store when you can stock up on it for $1 per tube somewhere else? In our household we've often purchased name-brand toothpaste in dollar stores, although we've noticed that our local dollar stores also stock name-brand toothpaste manufactured for foreign markets (usually Canada or Mexico) and off-brand toothpaste sold in "knock-off" packaging that mimics the packaging of more well-known brands.

As television station in KXAS, a Dallas-based NBC affiliate, discovered in a report broadcast in May 2004 (and summarized in the message quoted above), consumers might want to be cautious when buying dollar-store toothpaste. One major concern is that one can often find toothpaste intended for foreign markets for sale in dollar stores, product that may not meet the same governmental regulations required of American manufacturers or that may have been made by foreign companies with lower quality-control standards than American firms.

Of course, where the toothpaste comes from can make a big difference. We have no issue with purchasing Canadian toothpaste for our household from our nearby dollar store, because it's manufactured by a major American corporation (Procter & Gamble), and it's approved by the Canadian Dental Association (CDA), whose standards are similar to the American Dental Association's (ADA):

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/toothpaste.asp

My son just came back from Costa Rica. He said 400 people from Panama died from toothpaste. He also said Costa Rica confiscated it on ships at their ports and destroyed it. It never made it to land.
Jewelry was also named from China has lead in it. Children get sick from it.
Make up made in China has been actually causing blindness and eye trouble it has quinine and other poisons in it. It was on a T.V. special in N.Y.
Seafood from China is actually grown in sewers and poluted waters from over crowded population and giving drugs to grow that have been outlawed here. Was also on the same show and on news on radio.
What is the the FDA doing! Besides trying to make their buddies rich! and they are trying to do away with over the counter vitamins.

Posylady, that is horrible. We are under attack as a nation from every angle this corrupt, incompetent government touches. The more I read the more I am beginning to wonder if his purpose for being selected into office by the elite was to systematically destroy America and all that it stands for.

Attack on FDA and EPA Integrity
by Brian R. Hill

Poison Maker Appointed
to Head EPA Region 10
U.S. EPA chief Stephen Johnson, under fire from his own staff scientists for chemical industry collusion, has named a major industry player as head of EPA’s Region 10, comprising Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Elin Miller, previously with Dow Agrosciences and more recently President and CEO of Arysta LifeScience North America, will now oversee environmental protection of some of the most ecologically sensitive areas of the nation.

While at Dow, Miller chaired Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE), an industry-supported “Wise Useâ€