Chinese authorities are investigating whether two companies from this coastal region exported tainted toothpaste as more contaminated product, including some made for children, has turned up in Latin America.
Investigators arrived here Sunday afternoon and closed the factory of the Danyang City Success Household Chemical Co., a small building housing about 30 workers in a nearby village, villagers and a factory worker said. The government also questioned the manager of Goldcredit International Trading, which is in Wuxi, about an hour’s drive southeast of here.
There have been no reports of deaths tied to toothpaste containing the chemical.
No tainted toothpaste has been found in the United States, but a Food and Drug Administration spokesman said Monday that the agency would be taking “a hard look” at whether to issue an import alert.
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Items compiled from Tribune news services.
