Is Your Leather Couch Making You Sick? The Chinese Poison Train rides again, this time in the form of chemically treated leather couches that are inflicting burns and rashes on people who sit on them. [Consumer Reports Safety]
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One person has died. Wow. And I thought it was just the cow that is supposed to die for our comfort.
Is this just the first of many cars connected to the chinese poison train again?
@theblackdog: Funny you should say cars. Just wait til leather seats in cars start killing.
@LiquidGravity: The ultimate irony would be if it happened in a GM/Ford/Chrysler card.
You can poison our people as long as you loan us money to fund government health care.
another advantage to having a dog hair covered futon
@edwardso: Particularly if left by a service dog.
Sounds like the chemical could be similar to what those Wal-Mart flip-flops were made from.
What!?!? Something from China is toxic?
News to me.