Like most office environments, my coworkers and I enjoy sharing emails. Some of the "fwds" are of the funny nature, some are inspiring and others are a serious messages meant to serve as a 'heads up' type of forewarning.
I usually skim over them and promptly click delete. It's not that I don't appreciate my coworker's thoughtfulness by keeping me in mind when sending the mass email. I just don't believe half of the information on these forwards.
They seem to be more of urban legend type of infromation: Watch out when you pump gas because a rapist may hop into your back seat..or never put your finger in a coin return because people have been placing HIV injected needles in them, just waiting for you to place your finger on the tip.
Even as a mom of a 4 1/2 year old, I don't take everything I read to be literal. The world wide web is a infinate place for an infinate number of authors to post whatever information they like, and although some may think we can never be too careful, I on the other hand think it's a waste of time to live in paranoia and fear.
However, today I received an email that got my attention. It was an email that was "verified" by http://www.snopes.com/, which if I understand correctly, is the ultimate online rumor verifier, right?
Anyway, it stated Sherwood's Milk Chocolate Pirate's Gold Coins (Halloween candy imported from China) is unsafe and contains melamine, which is is an organic base and a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton. Like cyanamide, it contains 66% nitrogen by mass and, if mixed with resins, has fire retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or charred, and has several other industrial uses.
Two questions: What is your opinion on the Chinese imports that have been found contaminated over the recent years? Do you believe this 'warning' and will you avoid the chocolate coins just to be safe?
Until Next Week,
Kelly
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I don't buy any food made in China, first off these days, and I especially don't feed any to my toddler. Not a risk worth taking and there are lots of other options out there...part of the reason I got my candy from a natural candy store (http://tinyurl.com/57u9ec).
Also, my husband who watches more news than I, pointed out that since the melamine got into dried milk, it is basically showing up in any Chinese made food products that contain milk -- hence the total believability (and snopes verification) on the chocolate coins.
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