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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (72017)	1/12/2010 9:10:54 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 74559

China jewelry makers say toxic metal cuts costs news.yahoo.com Making sure Chinese-made goods are safe requires constant vigilance — something many foreign companies fail to do, said Christopher Devereux, managing director of the Guangzhou-based consulting firm Chinasavvy HK Ltd. China traders like Devereux call it "quality fade" — a phenomenon in China in which suppliers constantly try to produce goods more cheaply with lower-quality materials. "In any other country in the West, your quality curve goes upwards, but it's the opposite in China. We just have learned our lesson. We need to check every single batch," said Devereux who helps Western companies buy and produce a variety of goods in China, from toys and plumbing fixtures to shoes and lunch boxes. "Cadmium is one of the nastiest of the heavy metals, worse than lead. I was absolutely amazed that people were using it," he said.

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