Oh come on, we have to bash China somehow. Maybe the paint was from China.

When will they take the toxins out of the food?

If you're feeding your kids McDonalds food, Cadmium in their drink glasses is the least of their health problems. It's like shooting little Johnny in the face then blaming the manufacturer for not sterilizing the bullet.

Manufactured BY and Manufactured IN are two totally different things there a.w.riddols.

Oh, comm'on now, if McDonald's can't get you one way, they'll get you another.

...........and YOU pay for it. $2.00 a glass, for what should be a give away?

If consumers buy into this blatant marketing, they deserve everything they get.

The energy we will expend transporting all the glassware with its minute amounts of cadmium will far outstrip the risks posed by the cadmium.

I mean we will pollute air and landfills via burning fossil fuel to collect and discard MILLIONS of pieces of drinking ware. A travesty considering there are kids around the world right now who would just like a drink of water and a bowl of oatmeal.

I believe we in North America are in danger of becoming severely paranoid over relatively tiny concerns such as this. The paint is fired on the glassware and is on the OUTSIDE of the glassware for cryin' out loud. How many kids are going to seriously be able to chew on the outer surface of these objects?

These recalls are getting ridiculous. . . The expense of energy to conduct these, a terrible waste.

Everyone with these glasses, ride by your local Mc Nasty's and throw them out in the parking lot.

Little League baseballs are made in China nowadays. That's just wrong on so many levels.

Not to demean this recall or take it lightly, but isn't the paint on the outside of the glass?

If you traverse the company site, they have offices, manufacturing centers, and distribution centers across the globe. The key will be to find out where this particular production was manufactured, not distributed.

I'm not saying it's a China product or an American product, but Momus2009 is right...a great many companies are simply fronts for cheap overseas labor so they can say "buy American" without realizing product is actually made overseas.

We'll see which manufacturing center they were originated from before passing judgement of falsely placing blame.

3 things....

1) McDonalds launched a mass marketing campaign for those glasses, why didn't they take the time to have the glasses tested for cadmium?.. Or even the Manufacturer knowing that it was for a large chain of restaurants, why didn't the bother to test the glasses?... Isn't that negligence?

2) They are right, even if is made in the US or By a U.S firm does not mean that the raw material doesn't come from overseas. We make finished products but raw materials largely are imported.

3) You can bash China all you want, however, who are the one seeking cheap stuff?.. Consumers.

Is just like drugs, you can bomb a whole drug importing country but while there are consumers in America there will be other importers... Offer and demand thing... The only one to blame are consumers.

McDonalds launched a mass marketing campaign for those glasses, why didn't they take the time to have the glasses tested for cadmium?.. Or even the Manufacturer knowing that it was for a large chain of restaurants, why didn't the bother to test the glasses?... Isn't that negligence?

McDonald's can't do the testing. The manufacturer can due testing, but it may noe be required at all times. If you buy an ingredient from another company and it was tested fine, you usually don't keep testing that ingredient. You already expect it to be fine. What it comes down to is this:

Did the company selling the ingredient for this 'paint' know it was toxic when they sold it or not? And is it required by the manufacturer's to test it (again not all companies do this)?

The human body consumes a pound of dirt per year.

You also consume a variety of toxic chemicals.

This is just McDonald's way of dealing with the paranoid public.

CITRUS FRUIT JUICES, CANNED

Insects and insect eggs: 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

RED FISH AND OCEAN PERCH

Parasites: 3% of the fillets examined contain 1 or more parasites accompanied by pus pockets

MACARONI AND NOODLE PRODUCTS

Rodent filth: Average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

WHEAT FLOUR

• Insect filth: Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams
• Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams

These are some names of preservatives used to preserve canned and dried fruits and vegetables from yeast and bacterial growth.

• Sulphur dioxide

• Sodium sulphite

• Sodium bisulphite

• Potassium metabisulphite

• Calcium sulphite

• Calcium hydrogen sulphite

Sulphur dioxide has been linked to mutations of cells that cause cancer.

And the various sulphites above can cause asthma, blurred vision, dizziness, irregular breathing, stomach problems, nervous irritability, etc.

Nitrites are found in cured meat products like sausage, bacon, ham, frankfurters, hot dogs, luncheon meat, etc. These are highly toxic and affect the red blood cells, cause breathing difficulties and headaches. When combined with certain chemicals in the digestive system, it forms nitrosamine which is a very potent cause of cancer.

Have a nice day

Oh please again you bash MSNBC for not saying what country it came from and I look and its a feed from AP. All of the Hannah Montana jewelry from Walmart was taken off the shelves because Cadmium was discovered in it. BTW where else is anything made anymore. It should be the responsibility of the person purchasing the goods from the foreign places to assure they meet American standards by testing the stuff themselves before after and during purchase.

Not to demean this recall or take it lightly, but isn't the paint on the outside of the glass?

The paint gets on the kids hands as they use the glass and if they put their hand in their mouth they can get sick. Plain and simple it is an agent that is banned in America and most of the rest of the world..

McDonald's can't do the testing. The manufacturer can due testing,
Yes they can and they should be responsible for what they sell. We bought toys from the Pacific rim and tested them batch to batch. Every container we got was inspected. We rejected many of them for both substandard work and materials that did not make code.

The responsibility lies with McDonald's - plain and simple.

Some here say the company selling it CANT test it. FALSE. they choose not to because they either don't care or assume its safe, I assume its the latter. McD's probably assumed these were safe.
Car companies probably don't do a lot of safety tests, somebody does but apparently the way toyota has been going lately I guess its not toyota doing the tests.

If you sell a product that harms people, you are liable - if their burger kills folks its not the farmers fault unless he knowingly sells bad beef, but ultimately the responsibility lies with the seller.

I bought a computer from best buy once and it fried at nearly 2 years old, best buy had to fix it due to liability laws in our state. They didn't make the cheap piece of crap, but they were found to be responsible for the repairs.

The next thing you know, they will outlaw glass, "its pssible that if the glass is mishandled and is broken or cracked, it could cut you or cause injury or death if ingested"

people just don't want to be responcible for their own actions, it always has to be someone elses fault... "who can I sue"... Thats the result of liberal thinking INFECTING our society. YES, it IS an INFECTION!!

But seriously...this crap shouldn't be coming from off-shore in the first place

Were these things made in China?? I get a strong feeling China is engaged in covert terrorism against the US. Everything that they send us is laced in poisonous materials.

Giantego:

Good point.

By the way, this isn't the first time the king of the clown food has had this problem.

Remember the NFL bobble heads that turned out to be made with lead paint? I still have my Urlacher bobble head....and lick it for good luck at the start of each season.

I think the Bears have been eating some paint chips lately as well.

Did you know that every time you smell someones fart you are tasting it? True story...

So, you can see we 'eat' things all the time that are not good for us. I would rather drink from this Chinese 'death glass' than have a product with Monsanto's Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) soy beans. Those will kill you faster and they are in everything.

Look before you leap.

With that being said, I think China really needs to stop sending the USA stuff that is killing us (on purpose?). Sheetrock, kids toys, drinking glasses.... When is enough, enough and we start boycotting China products? At least this is one boycott I could understand, unlike the Arizona boycott.

awriddels,

All you've done is replace one inconclusive point with another equally inconclusive point.

Oh come on, we have to bash China somehow. Maybe the paint was from China.

May we should ask awriddels; he/she has appointed him/herself as the supreme authority on this matter. No need to defend China . That is the paid job of the 50 cents (ers) and the Chamber of Commerce PR div.

I remember when this stuff came on jelly jars.

Steve Papa:

I do too! I have a jelly jar NFL glass from the early 70's in my bar.

And see. There's noth...noth..noth....skynx... nothing wrong with me!

Checkmate-983933 I know is not required for either of the parties to test it, however, if I was in charge of any of the companies I should have known that a lot of people were going to put their hands in that product. Knowing about TORT where lawsuits can be filed against the whole chain of distribution, I would definitely test it to make sure that it is safe.

Again, who listen to risk management when greed makes management dumb. If companies will do the right things and common sense things there shouldn't be so many regulations and government interventions. But they rather try to get away with murder and if they fail they just complaint that government is too big.

How about gas stations and other plastic glasses used at some fast food places.........they smell and taste like PLASTIC to the point i throw out my drink............why the hell dont people besides myself REFUSE to pay and demand their money back when they get a CHEMICAL LACED PLASTIC CUP TO DRINK OUT OF...............it is EXTREMELY COMMON to get soda tainted by these chemicals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plastic cups smell like like plastic? wow! You should try to get Rachel Maddow on this. Oh never mind you proabably are Rachel Maddow.

Acccording to ARC's website and straight from the CEO's mouth, I'd say there is a very good chance these glasses were made offshore.

"During the last few years, we have adapted ourselves to the emergence of countries with vast equipment needs and cultural diversity. We have chosen to orientate our development towards Asia, China and the Middle East. By establishing manufacturing and sales facilities in these countries, and by developing an adapted marketing offer, we are able to anticipate and support the consumers' requirements."

re: the AP doing its job.

Stories evolve as more inside sources talk and more elements come to light, especially those involving international issues and ESPECIALLY those involving tight-lipped U.S. corporations that arm and distance themselves from the public and the press with a team of public relations consultants.

When the regulatory agencies were being gutted and decapitated in the 1980s, to the applause of knee jerk Reagan conservatives everywhere, so too was the world's finest free press system, which is, of course, owned by corp. America. Already large media companies merged and discovered no one would - or could - stop them from bottom-line eviscerating the information system the public increasingly depended on. Newsrooms were all but emptied of talented, probing streetwise and politically savvy journalists, while boardrooms and Wall St. raked in the bucks saved. Sound familiar? Journalism in the U.S. died a slow, unnoticed death in the 1980s and 1990s. It's gone and it's not coming back.

Fast forward 30 years. Anyone still subscribe to a newspaper filled with original reporting and AP wire, which was always the source of tv and now internet news? Who do you depend on to tell you there is a toxic dump in your back yard and that the local govt. officials were paid off by the corporations who put the stuff there in the first place? Or that there are a greedy hoard of bankers and Congressmen on the take and out to wreck the economy? Grow up America, you get what you pay for. What a waste. Better be glad U.S. citizens mostly all finally have health insurance; we're gonna need it, as will our children and grandchildren, whether they eat greasy, plastic, dirty fast food, or not.

Blogs. Are. Not. Journalism.

And thats the facts Jack. The other news organizations are just as bad. I look to BBC and other non US news now and have for sometimes even though I have a relative who works for one of the American feeders.

Aren't things like these glasses quality tested BEFORE being put up for sale???? Or is that too easy/logical.

Anything that adds a penny to the bottom line anymore is taboo when all the CEOS are concerned with is the value of the stock they are getting as pay.

Big deal,sue them they are a shell with $20 in their operating account.

Awesome!

fyi, most chemicals have MSDS for them, so you just need to call mcdonald and ask them to get you a copy of the paint's MSDS .

MSDS = material safety data sheet

EPA/OSHA requires all manufacturer to have MSDS'es of all chemicals use in their factory available onsite in case of accidents, etc.

An MSDS is for the ingredients intentionally added to the products and is not required internationally. You won't find contaminants and you won't find any such sheet from a whole host of foreign factories that supply dyes.

Exactly schannomin. Foreign countries don't have an EPA or an OSHA. A "universal" MSDS like system is being looked into. Even if you asked for an MSDS and Mc Nasty's gave you, would the average 'soccer mom' even know what they were looking at. The kid behind the counter could hand you a copy of their menu in Chinese and most people wouldn't know it. Cartoon glasses have been around for years. What about the paint on one thats 40 yrs old?

Jeremy, 40 years ago most glasses sold in the U.S.A. were made in the U.S.A.

Forty years ago, the biggest import threats to the U.S. were the Datsun and the Beta Max.

Datsun, those were pretty dependable. I guess forty years ago almost everything was "Made in the U.S.A". I'm not quite that old but, ahh, the good ol' days.......

What the hell does that have to do with McDonald's poisoning their drink glasses?

He just needed his "bash republican" fix for the day.

Unlike the banks and brokerage houses and BP who spend most of their money on dems.

Get there as fast as you can, there may still be time.

And it is important that you do. Undoubtedly someone will start a lawsuit based on their child's exposure and future health issues. You could get in the lawsuit and make millions from a 2 dollar investment. Of course, the only risk is from long-term exposure but that will not stop someone from suing. Or perhaps the emotional damage to the child since they had that treasured glass for a long time( couple days?) and then it was taken from them scaring them for life. The possibilities are endless.

If they're stupid enough to sell you a glass, just don't lick it or your hands after drinking from it (for extended periods anyway).

Oh great! What next wear a Hazmat suit while dining there? They only cost 1359 bucks

Wal-Mart said Wednesday it is pulling an entire line of Miley Cyrus-brand necklaces and bracelets from its shelves after tests performed for The Associated Press found the jewelry contained high levels of the toxic metal cadmium.

The importer of the bracelet charms, Cousin Corp. of America, said that earlier this year, it persuaded one of the Chinese factories with which it works to stop using cadmium. The cadmium-heavy jewelry Weidenhamer tested was produced in 2008 and 2009 at the problem factory,

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-kids-jewelry-toxic,0,5911213.story

Appears Cadmium is high on the Chinese list of ingredients used in manufacturing.

If it was done in the U.S, which I doubt you could even get paint with cadmium in it here, someone dropped the ball. If it was done overseas, you probably can't get paint without cadmium in it, it's an everyday occurence.

They never fined the guy at the Peanut factory that was selling known tainted PB to schools and nursing homes. Deregulation in America causes this BS and will continue to do so until we have a major incident that will shock the people back into reality. Take the meat industry. Before some deregulation they were averaging maybe 100K pounds of meat a year on recalls. now it is in the millions.

That's capitalism at work. It's a GOOD thing. The manufacturer saved a few bucks, which means they can hire another worker. Trickle down. It works.

:)

The corporate offices might be here in the USA. There plants are all over the world. Read above. they have five offshore manufacturing sites.

It's the French! First with their nasty sulfated wines and now with their glassware! There out to get us! (kidding).

F.Y.I.

"Arc International employs 16,500 people worldwide, including some 9,500 in France. The Group, whose head office is located in Arques, in the French Pas-de-Calais region, achieved a turnover of 1.4 billion Euros in 2006. It markets tableware products in more than 160 countries, notably under the Luminarc®, Mikasa®, Cristal d'Arques® Paris, Arcoroc®, Pyrex® Nova® brands. Arc International is present in five continents with production sites (France, Spain, USA, China, and UAE), distribution subsidiaries (France, USA, UK, Spain, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Japan) and sales offices."

What does ARC care, if there's no accountability, i.e. financial fines, loss of future business, etc...?

Not as if ARC International was on the tip of the average American's tongue. Added conundrum for the blindsided public is that one would be hard pressed to find a U.S. corporation in any business sector that isn't 'international,' importing that is; U.S. companies - other than Apple - don't export much anymore.

The other corporation the public ought be furious with is Dreamworks. They first have to sign off and give their stamp of approval on all this branded synergy McDonald's, cereal, and Wal Mart crap foisted on kids. If the public really cares, they'd boycott the movie till someone at Dreamworks took responsibility for making sure it never happens again.

It's Obama's fault.

LoL the new one they have is manufactured in America with global parts.

Haha I haven't seen that one yet.. Perhaps it hasn't reached Canada yet... I look at everything to see where it is made.

Made, manufactured, assembled,distributed, packaged, product of Canada, packaged in Uraguay???? Now we can't even package our own stuff?

Bag of cashews... MADE IN CANADA... huh? (since when do cashews grow in Canada?~~~then it goes on to read in smaller letters.. from domestic and imported ingredients'

The only thing that was "Made in Canada' is the bag.

It may have cost 20 cents a glass to make overseas, little or nothing to ship them here. It would've cost probably a buck 20 to make here (if not more after unions got a hold of it). It's all about the profit margins.

You union hating people never miss a chance do you. Think of this the people in the plant in China are non union and they are breathing this crap day in and day out for a dollar a day. A non union America will be the same in a few years thanks to people like yourself who just loves it when Business sticks it to the workers.

Acccording to ARC's website and straight from the CEO's mouth, I'd say there is a very good chance these glasses were made offshore.

"During the last few years, we have adapted ourselves to the emergence of countries with vast equipment needs and cultural diversity. We have chosen to orientate our development towards Asia, China and the Middle East. By establishing manufacturing and sales facilities in these countries, and by developing an adapted marketing offer, we are able to anticipate and support the consumers' requirements."

"During the last few years, we have adapted ourselves to the emergence of countries with vast equipment needs and cultural diversity. We have chosen to orientate our development towards Asia, China and the Middle East. By establishing manufacturing and sales facilities in these countries, and by developing an adapted marketing offer, we are able to anticipate and support the consumers' requirements."

That CEO must have graduated at the top of his MBA class with the ability to spit out a mouth full of crap like that!

And, just who the hell is stupid enough to pay $2.00 for a glass, I don't care what's printed on it, it's imported junk!

Ride by and throw them out in the parking lot. If everyone did this.... What a statement it could make....

That's probably one of the only things the guy knows how to say in English, call after 3pm. Everytime I go to a fast food place they never get my order right, simple orders, how hard is it to read a screen and put what it says into the bag? Are these jobs going to start requiring a degree??

Really, you're 'floored at the lack of concern'?

I'm floored you think a corporation (a) cares and (b) will refund your money.

What's the big deal about horsemeat? It's better than the soy extended cow meat that they sell.