Musings of a modern guy

The growing ‘melamine’ tainted milk scandal is taking on a more international hue. Earlier, projected to mostly impact only milk products made for babies in China, it is covering a whole lot of different products and countries. Categories such as powder, chocolates, candies, ice cream, etc are all getting affected, and recalls have been happening [...]

China has been suffering from some serious bad press over an extended period due to low quality of some of its exports. This continued reporting of quality problems has started to affect the company’s reputation, and this latest report by the WHO over deliberate delays in reporting of the melamine in milk scandal would only [...]

China has suffered massively in terms of a loss of confidence and an almost sure public relations disaster; and by now, you would all be knowing what I am talking about - the frequent recall of toys and other goods made in China due to lead contamination, or other similar safety problems. Mattel Inc, a [...]

The horror story does not seem to be going away for Mattel and China. In the third episode of the series dealing with lead-contaminated toys, Mattel has had to announce the third recall within a month of toys due to lead contamination. Mattel has announced the recall of 800,000 toys (Barbie accessories sold between October [...]

In a scathing criticism of the Army Corps of Engineers, and generically of the way that the various Government institutions such as Congress and Senators representing the state of Louisiana operate, TIME has published an article talking about investigating why the flooding of New Orleans happened after hurricane Katrina, and the prime reason seems to [...]

It’s been a problem now for some time; toys and other stuff imported from China are turning up in large quantities to be contaminated in some way or the other. The latest issue is about toys sold by Mattel that is contaminated and had to be recalled, causing a severe worry to parents and causing [...]