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Flip-Flop Flap

Claim: Wal-Mart halted sales of Chinese-made flip-flops after some purchasers reported suffering skin rashes or chemical burns. Status: True. Example: [Collected on the Internet, August 2007]

Don't buy flip flops from Wal-mart! Many products coming out of china are now being recalled due to unsafe materials to make products and keep the budget at a low cost. Lead is MIXED in the paint for toys and here is what happened when a customer bought a pair of flip flops from wal-mart, these were CHEMICAL BURNS: [Rest of article at http://www.lamanaphotography.com/walmart2.htm]

Chinese Thongs sandals sold at Walmart!!!.DO NOT BUY

REMEMBER THE PAINT ON KIDS TOYS ?

Hi, This is very true I heard it in news from one of our local radios here that our govt has to be extra careful on these cheap imports from China especially clothes because the Chinese are using some strong but cheap chemical in their manufactures. Cheap is expensive and at the same time fatal. PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO PASS THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE IN YOUR CONTACT LIST.

This is true, Check it out at www.snopes.com Http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/flipflop.asp

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thanks for the warning, seems like everything these

days are made in China, parts made in China and

assembled in the USA.

--- Joyce Hudson <bjoyful@...> wrote:

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> Flip-Flop Flap

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> Claim: Wal-Mart halted sales of Chinese-made

> flip-flops after some purchasers reported suffering

> skin rashes or chemical burns.

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> Status: True.

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> Example: [Collected on the Internet, August

> 2007]

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> Don't buy flip flops from Wal-mart!

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> Many products coming out of china are now

> being recalled due to unsafe materials to make

> products and keep the budget at a low cost. Lead is

> MIXED in the paint for toys and here is what

> happened when a customer bought a pair of flip flops

> from wal-mart, these were CHEMICAL BURNS:

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> [Rest of article at

> http://www.lamanaphotography.com/walmart2.htm]

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> This is very true I

> heard it in news from one of our local radios here

> that our govt has to be extra careful on these cheap

> imports from China especially clothes because the

> Chinese are using some strong but cheap chemical in

> their manufactures. Cheap is expensive and at the

> same time fatal.

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> This is true,

> Check it out at

> www.snopes.com

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> Http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/flipflop.asp

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