Again, we’re measuring these products by the thousands and millions! It is not the isolated incidence or small percentage some would like to claim. This is what we’re finding out. Sure, we could have no product issues – if we never looked into product issues. We are just on the front end of this. “Bad” […]

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: N.I.C.E. P200 Navigation and Entertainment Systems Units: About 1,500 additional units (about 2,500 were recalled in […]

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 Amid growing awareness of food perils, companies that spotlight where ingredients originate are enjoying new demand Catch the debate of pro’s and con’s here. Poll results: Pro – Too much too fast (China product safety is a big problem) – 2/3 for this position Con – Hard work brings profit (No its not) – 1/3rd […]

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Stories on how bad the situation is, and the need for saynotochina.org, just keeps on rolling in. Sunday’s New York Times started to give extensive coverage to the massive environmental degradation going on in China. (a free registration is required for their site). This will be the story for 2007. To quote from the article: […]

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In our local paper today there were three more articles on the problems with products made in China and the opportunities for companies that make things locally. Two were AP wire feeds but one was purely local. See It’s only natural Local toymakers see opportunity after recalls What jumps out at me is the quote: […]

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Lets open up the discussion to try to address this. What should we mean by saying something is a “World Safe” product? Some major themes come to mind: Production processes Sustainability Environmental Impact Labor Now this is going to very quickly get thorny. In France it is illegal to require more than a 35-hour work […]

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So the idea is to create a site where people can report problems/concerns/suspicions they have with products.  Chinese products?  All products? Companies can check to see if their product is listed, how many references, etc-bad news for them. Lawyers can check to see where the gold is. Consumers can look for problems to avoid, patterns […]

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No worry here.  The frenzy will fade but the underlying dynamic will not go away.  The problems in Chinese (and other countries) business practices are so deeply rooted, and widespread, they will continue for years to come.  There will be incident after incident because the systems that would prevent future problems does not yet exist. […]

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Identify “bad” Chinese products. Identify “good” Chinese products. The site (and the name) need to allow room to grow-frequently in a positive direction. Already we are seeing the first rumblings of a much broader approach. Product safety, good companies, good practices, fair practices, world-wide.

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Nice to hear the GoDaddy people thought our name was cool-I do too.

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