Check this out. Couldn't even imagine someone faking eggs, eggs being rather common here in N/A.... http://paultan.org/archives/2006/01/01/china/
hey...i visit that website often too....i love it....fake eggs from China....don't forget they even have copycat cars......they are the piracy king...
That will make many people think twice before getting anything Made In China. Wow going through all that trouble just to do eggs. You think they make any fake Toyota's? not
o....they even fake mercedes....same website....Honda, Toyota, Daewoo/Chevy and also BMW...they fake it all...
I think you are very right - I've seen reports on replacement auto parts have been revealed as counterfeit and consumers are warned when having repairs done to their vehicles. warranties are not valid, but more importantly there are some very serious safety hazards when these counterfeit parts get into your car. I've seen counterfeit bolts, that are labeled as being higher strength (fake stampings) that fail under stress and causing accidents. It the fake egg story, the cause for concern is although it cooks and tastes like real eggs, there are chemicals used that are potential health hazards if taken too often. (ie. alum)
Its strange b/c so much fake things come from China, a communist country. Seems like there are so many entrepeneurs and innovators. In the USA the capatalist king of the world there are much less fakes so it would seem much less blackmarketteers. Then again laws are much stricter in the USA...
I once read a saying from a newspaper....and no offence to China....it says "China...everything is fake except burglars".
worst fake is medicine. Most fake drugs originated from India, china, and russia -------------- Fake medicines flood local market Health Nicki Padayachee Up to 20% of the medicines sold in South Africa are fakes or stolen and are almost impossible to distinguish from the real thing. The problem is so serious that the Department of Health has a four-man team investigating fake medicines. But so far, there has been only one successful prosecution in South Africa - that of three Potchefstroom pharmacists who were fined between R20 000 and R300 000 in March for distributing R50-million in stolen and counterfeit medicines. Counterfeit drugs are defined as medicines produced by fraudulent pharmaceutical laboratories that often contain incorrect amounts of the active ingredients, if any at all, or contain the incorrect active ingredients - making them potentially lethal or completely useless. Dr Marc Blockman, consultant clinical pharmacist at the University of Cape Town , estimated that up to 20% of drugs sold in the country were counterfeit. "We are certainly aware that 20% of the drugs in the country are counterfeit or stolen," he said. Bobby Hamman, head of the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa's Drug Wise programme, said fake and stolen medicines resulted in losses of up to R2-billion every year in the R14.5-billion industry. The fakes that have been detected in South Africa include: Well-known prescription pain tablets; A pain syrup for babies; Antibiotics; Insulin used by diabetics; Anti-fungal medication prescribed to Aids patients; Cholesterol control medication; Stomach cramp medication; Hormone replacement therapy medication; and The anti-impotence drug, Viagra. Copies shown to the Sunday Times by the Medicines Control Council last week were so good that it was impossible to detect the fakes. Differences ranged from slight variations in indentations in the plastic capsules to minuscule variations in the boxes that contained them. Said Russell Coote, head of the medical compliance unit at the Department of Health: "You can never tell a good or perfect counterfeit; you can only tell the bad . . . It takes a trained eye to discover them and even pharmacists can be surprised to learn they are carrying counterfeit stock." Coote - the head of the four-member team charged with investigating cases of fake and stolen medicines countrywide - said the major exporters of fake medicines were India and Pakistan. The drugs are brought into South Africa through Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland, according to Eshetu Wondemagegnehu of the World Health Organisation in Geneva . Klaus Weber, who investigates fake medicine trafficking for multinational pharmaceutical companies, said the drugs get onto the shelves via pharmacists and dispensing doctors who buy them from crooked wholesalers . But while the problem is huge, the public had not been alerted because pharmaceutical companies considered it damaging to their business, said Wondemagegnehu . "The real problem is that nobody wants to disclose the information because it affects their sales and their share price," he said. Maureen Kirkman, head of scientific and regulatory affairs at the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association, said the counterfeiting of medicines was an "almost-perfect crime". "The counterfeiting industry is like the Mafia: the rewards are big. Either the patient dies or doesn't know they have taken counterfeit drugs," she said.
You just got excited, cooler man? Lots of 'fake' goods can be erm... good, provided they can match the original, meaning that if they could be synthetically produced, could help solve the problem of undersupply. Aspects from which this can lend a help is such as in the fields of medicine as in organs or food stuff, especially during emergencies. The only trouble is the need for stringent quality control - the WHO have enough to deal with worldwide already.
lol talking about fakes i couldnt help but post this here, saw a link to this on a local fourm site and though wow it so fit here, fake movie. http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/2079.html
i guess this is getting really stereotypical... lets put it into perspective,,,, the population density is ENOURMOUS.. if someone were to do soemthing (fake eggs l0l) chances are, it could be a chinese person....
haha, i'm guilty of loving fake things on a recent trip to nyc i returned with a fake rolex, sunglasses, purse for sister. you gotta love it
Well, as long as there's profit, I am sure ppl will jump into the marekt/business. Actually, the fake egg story was not new. Even by the time i was there (12 yrs ago), I heard about it already.
Going back to the fake egg thing, I think whoever can come up with fake eggs that are practically impossible to tell from the real thing, cook and taste just like the real thing, cholesterol free, calorie free, but without the poisonous substances like alum and "magic water", all at half the price of the real thing, will make an absolute killing! I'm not talking currently widely marketed egg substitutes here which are nothing like the real thing. But, true fake eggs. Imagine the kind of money the fast food industry will be throwing in your direction if you come up with such a product. And that's just from one source. I'm sure the pre-prepared and packaged food companies will also be stepping over each other to get their hands on your fake eggs.
