Chinese cough syrup – now with more antifreeze!

Diethylene glycol is a compound used in hydraulic fluids and as an industrial solvent. It was also used to cut corners in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

If you’ve owned a pet before, you might have heard warnings about making sure that antifreeze leaks and containers are not accidentally accessed by your dogs and such. Because the substance is sweet, they tend to lap up a fatal amount of it before they realize its poison. However, we expect things like cough syrup to be sweet because of the syrup they put inside it, not because an antifreeze substance was used instead.

This Times article is a report on some irresponsible corner cutting in the manufacturing process of Chinese ingredients, which eventually ended up dumping diethylene glycol into the bloodstream of people in Panama and China, and possibly other places as well. With the recent pet food fiasco (in which, by the way, we still don’t know what was doing the actual poisoning) this almost doesn’t come at a surprise, but China’s reputation as a source manufacturer continues to be tarnished by questionable ethics and faulty business  practices creating dangerous products that are then ingested by living creatures. Just as bad is the shirking of responsibility both before and after the fact; although some cases get prosecuted, others are ignored, and officials don’t seem to care that much about China’s export.

Even if it is poisonous.

Paris Hilton is always a good source of entertainment.

We all knew she does some retarded things, but it seems this time she really is going to become someone’s bitch.

After getting her license suspended for something, she got a DUI and was sentenced to 45 days jail time starting sometime next month. Don’t worry, Paris, everyone makes mistakes. It’s just funnier when a skank does them!

Kraft Cool Whip is a good hemorrhoid cream and lube.

Well, not really. But it’s a little close for comfort.

Polysorbate 60 is a major ingredient in some sexual lubricants, and sorbitan monostearate is sometimes used as a hemorrhoid cream. Both are found in Cool Whip. It makes the sex and food fetish all that more interesting, I say.