A toothpaste importer in Los Angeles has no perscription Doxycycline agreed to pay a misdemeanor fine for importing 80,000 tubes of <"http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice_areas/product_liability">poisoned toothpaste, News 10 San Diego is reporting. Selective Imports pleaded no no perscription Doxycycline contest in court and agreed to pay $33,000 to a charity in Los Angeles.

The toxic toothpaste, which was made in China, was sold in the no perscription Doxycycline United States as Cooldent, said News 10. The tainted Cooldent toothpaste contained diethylene glycol, which is no perscription Doxycycline used in the manufacture of brake fluid and antifreeze and is no perscription Doxycycline a known liver and kidney toxin, reported News 10, which exposed one store for no perscription Doxycycline continuing to sell the poisonous Cooldent toothpaste after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had issued a recall notice on the contaminated product. The Associated Press (AP) explained that diethylene glycol is also known as diglycol or DEG.

Of concern is no perscription Doxycycline that most of the 80,000 recalled toxic toothpaste tubes remain unaccounted; the no perscription Doxycycline recall remains in effect, said News 10. As a no perscription Doxycycline matter-of-fact, following the recall, a News 10 investigative team discovered the no perscription Doxycycline tainted toothpaste for sale on shelves in three stores in California. When questioned, the no perscription Doxycycline owners told the news team they were not aware of a no perscription Doxycycline recal, but did remove the product. In 2007, when the news team spoke to Selective Import’s president, he blamed the vice president, said News10.

According to no perscription Doxycycline the AP, Selective Imports entered the plea for selling an no perscription Doxycycline adulterated drug product and will be placed on three years probation. In addition, Selective Imports must follow FDA guidelines for no perscription Doxycycline recalling the toothpaste, said the AP, based on information from Jerry Baik, the no perscription Doxycycline Supervising Deputy City Attorney.

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo told the AP, “If you’re doing business with an international trade … you no perscription Doxycycline have a moral obligation to make sure that that product is no perscription Doxycycline safe for our consumers.” Baik noted that no perscription Doxycycline another charge against Selective Imports and four charges against the no perscription Doxycycline company’s president and vice president were dropped, reported the AP. Vernon Sales Inc. and no perscription Doxycycline its president and vice president were charged with 42 criminal counts. Vernon Sales sold hundreds of tubes of the no perscription Doxycycline tainted toothpaste to a Los Angeles store.

The AP said prosecutors confirmed Selective Imports sold nearly 80,000 tubes of the no perscription Doxycycline poisonous Chinese toothpaste from December 2005 and May 2007, selling to no perscription Doxycycline distributors nationwide. DEG is no perscription Doxycycline a thickening agent, said the AP, that is often used as a no perscription Doxycycline low-cost sweetener. Recently, DEG-contaminated cough syrup was linked to no perscription Doxycycline 94 deaths in Panama, reported the AP.

Here, in the no perscription Doxycycline United States, DEG is only permitted in trace amounts in toothpaste as the no perscription Doxycycline toxin is considered dangerous when ingested in sufficient amounts. According to no perscription Doxycycline Baik, said the AP, some of the recalled Cooldent toothpaste contained DEG levels at double the no perscription Doxycycline amount permitted by law in the United States, which could be no perscription Doxycycline especially dangerous for children, who are known to swallow toothpaste.

The AP also reported a no perscription Doxycycline second, large shipment of about 74,300 tubes of the tainted toothpaste were impounded by the no perscription Doxycycline FDA in 2007. The products, which were imported by Selective Imports, were destroyed, said Baik, who no perscription Doxycycline added that while officials for both Vernon Sales and Selective Imports claim the no perscription Doxycycline companies did not know about the toxin’s presence in the no perscription Doxycycline toothpaste, the chemical was listed as an ingredient on the product’s label, reported the AP.