i dont know if anyone caught this on TV about a week ago. But one has to wonder when the govt will put their foot down. First lead in toys and now this. Basically these homes will need to be torn down.  
http://realestate.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=20239533>1=35000

It would make a strange and dark thriller if we had a movie a about a communist dictatorship that sold low quality commodities to a democratic country resulting in job losses, health issues, and deaths.  
 
The list of infractions from Chinese companies is very long:
 
Watered down milk sold to the World Health Organization and aid agencies
 
Milk poisoned with melamine
 
Dog food tainted with melamine
 
Water bottles tainted with toxic residual chemicals  
 
 
I will never buy a bass made anywhere but the USA

I'm glad to see this awareness. The situation is very bad.

Why not buy if built in Mexico, the salsa and chips are fine! LoL

Just don't eat the cilantro...

This really hits close to home.  When I was rebuilding my house after Katrina I refused a delivery of Chinese sheetrock to my house.  It just looked of inferior quality with cracking around the edges.  I sent it all back and insisted on better quality matierials.  They sent sheetrock made in Atlanta, Ga.  I am sooooo glad I refused that 1st delivery.
 
Some of my neighbors are not so fortunate.  They are having to re-gut their homes because of this!

Yikes! USA baby! All the way! Just like my Alembic!
Superior everything!

How about the movie where the democracy lived beyond its means and was reliant on the communist dictatorship to fund its debts?

This does really hit close to home, yet it still feels like a bad topic for the Alembic club.  I'm sure there are plenty of other places to vent about this.  As a positive, there may be an opportunity here to make a difference by contacting your political representatives to let them know how you feel.  Maybe something can be done to make this right.  
 
Beyond that, here's my vote that this is a topic for another place.

We live in the world, no?

bob
take yur vote and stuff it... lol
 
whats the deal?
informing the masses is a bad thing?
i bet if you just redid YOUR house you'd be scratching the paint looking to see who made the boards right?
 
these home owners are trying to get their lenders to eat the house as it is literally a toxic waste
 
if you dont like the thread- dont post on it....
ok
its the same as when someone dies and theres a post about it...
the alembic club is not an obituary column....
nuff said......
100,000 homes at lets say 250k as an average
is a lot of lost money... for nothing more than greed.

lol!

Strontium..heavy metal element so toxic in it salts, carbonates and sulphides(UK spelling)
Usually all sulphides are toxic...very bad indeed

But it taste like chicken.

The relevance that I see in this topic is that a person that values an Alembic product values quality and therefore would be even more so offended by this  constant flow of faulty merchandise that we have been getting from China. I hope that the manufacturers of this   sheetrock are held accountable