If you always assumed striped toothpaste was the work of a magic devil, assume again. It turns out it's the work of a little extended pipe inside the tube that merges the different colored substances onto the toothpaste highway and straight onto...
Remember how the FDA said there was "no evidence" that Chinese toothpaste tainted with diethylene glycol had made it to the U.S.? That was wrong.
The FDA will test all toothpaste made in China. It was discovered last week that some Chinese manufacturers had been substituting a more costly sugar flavoring with a cheaper, and deadly one, one that is also used in antifreeze. The toothpaste was...
6,000 tubes of toothpaste in Panama have been found to contain diethylene glycol, a poison used in solvents and antifreeze. The poison appears to have originated in China.
Over 700 tubes of poisonous counterfeit toothpaste were seized in Connecticut, according to The New York Times. The toothpaste is flavored with diethylene glycol, a sweet-tasting chemical more commonly found in anti-freeze. It can cause liver and...
Toothpaste For Dinner has discovered a spinoff of the Cash4Gold empire, Cash4Kids.com. "Fill the envelope with your stubborn or unwanted kid...THEN CASH YOUR CHECK!!!" [Toothpaste For Dinner]
China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine thinks the FDA overreacted by advising consumers to discard all toothpaste made in China:So far we have not received any report of death resulting from using the...
Colgate has released a statement on the four-state counterfeit toothpaste scare, saying that the quantities of diethylene glycol (a chemical more often used to give flavor to antifreeze) are not high enough to pose a significant health risk....
On Tuesday, the city of Los Angeles and the FDA charged the heads of two U.S. importing companies with 14 counts each of "receiving, selling and delivering an adulterated drug," for their roles in importing and distributing over 70,000 tubes of...
Logan thought this bonus pack of Colgate contained two equally-sized tubes of toothpaste. After all, the boxes are exactly the same size. Yet when he opened the bonus box, he found a smaller box containing a mini tube of toothpaste.
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