Honestly Lee the CHinese imports scare me to death...melamine, lead...pesticides..what next? I bought a cute garden tool set for Hunter a couple of years ago...a shovel, trowel, rake, hat ..all brightly colored with little bug faces at the top...just darling. He loved using them to plant sunflowers and work next to me...I find out a year later, they were recalled because of over the top lead content...I threw them out immediately. The stores here, Trader Joe's (love that place) kind of a return to the small grocery/market of the past, but with some really cool stuff....STOPPED all imports of any product from China...permanently. This was done at the requests of their patrons. I wish more stores would do the same. Kathy http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com Home of : CH. Elvaston's Nations Cup TC, 26 BOBs CH. Victory's Leviathan CH. Garter's E-Male of Fran-Jo Anne Isle WEBSITE PUP-DATED SEPT 22, 2008 On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Liane Fossland <lfossland@xxxxxxx> wrote: > For some time now I have been wondering what you all think of the imports > of > any kind that have swamped our country. I am expressly talking about those > items imported from China. In my experience I have returned numerous items > that were "Made in China", anything imaginable. Everything so far that I > ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================