{"id":276,"date":"2007-05-28T04:52:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-28T12:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/05\/28\/nicaragua-seizes-chinese-made-toothpaste\/"},"modified":"2007-05-28T04:52:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T12:52:49","slug":"nicaragua-seizes-chinese-made-toothpaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua seizes Chinese-made toothpaste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANAGUA, Nicaragua &#8211; Nicaraguan police seized 6,000 tubes of a Chinese-made toothpaste suspected of containing a chemical that killed at least 51 people in nearby Panama last year, the health minister said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Nicaraguan Health Minister Maritza Cuan told Channel 8 the seized toothpaste, labeled &#8220;Excel&#8221; and &#8220;Mr. Cool,&#8221; had been smuggled in from Panama.<\/p>\n<p>In Nicaragua, the toothpaste was seized from a vast market in the capital. Some vendors also were hawking it door to door, Cuan said. The product also could have been smuggled from Panama to Honduras and Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has said it is investigating the toothpaste, which the manufacturer has said is safe.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, pet food ingredients from China were blamed in the deaths of dogs and cats in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANAGUA, Nicaragua &#8211; Nicaraguan police seized 6,000 tubes of a Chinese-made toothpaste suspected of containing a chemical that killed at least 51 people in nearby Panama last year, the health minister said Sunday. Nicaraguan Health Minister Maritza Cuan told Channel 8 the seized toothpaste, labeled &#8220;Excel&#8221; and &#8220;Mr. Cool,&#8221; had been smuggled in from Panama. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[11,28],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}