Wednesday, June 11, 2008
A interesting/disgusting post :
USING CONDOMS AS HAIRBANDS?!
I found this in the forums & I believe some of you guys
could have receive an email about this.
BEIJING (AFP) - Used condoms arebeing recycled into hairbands in southern China , threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, statemedia reported Tuesday.
In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hairbands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province, China Daily newspaper said.
'These cheap and colourful rubber bands and hair ties sell well ...threatening the health of local people,' it said.
Despite being recycled, the hair bands could still contain bacteria and viruses, it said.
'People could be infected with AIDS, (genital) warts or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while waving their hairinto plaits or buns,' the paper quoted a local dermatologist who gave only his surname, Dong, as saying.
A bag of ten of the recycled bands sells for just 25 fen (three cents), much cheaper than others on the market, accounting for their popularity, the papersaid.
A government official was quoted as saying recycling condoms was illegal.
China 's manufacturing industry has been repeatedly tarnished this year by a string of scandals involving shoddy or dangerous goods made for both domestic and foreign markets.
In response, it launched a public relations blitz this summer aimed at playing up efforts to strengthen monitoring system.
Pictures of the hairbands been cut out and inspected.
copied from mel jie :) i m not a c0nd0m freak! x.x
haha just finish watching euro2008, portugal won 3-1 against czech! their 3rd goal was quite cheapskate though. haha ronaldo score the winning goal:)
o, and i have been play gunbound! lolol. finally a change of game(though is an old 1) tks to bg. hahaha otherwise i m still on maple private sever.
I MUST REALLY THANK GOD!! lol i felt hes goodness once again! rmb tat i previously posted abt wanting to watch movie? den today, i received an sms from my cell ldr, saying tat we are gonna watch movie wif simon's cell! wahhh.
Praise The Lord ;DD
let it go
11:09 PM