An excellent, carefully crafted update from the AAIB.
So, since we are down to a transitory fuel flow reduction affecting both engine subsystems, brought on in conjunction with lower than typical fuel temps, I am at last compelled to point out the following:
Toothpaste:
Toothpaste counterfeited with poison:
Over the years, Chinese counterfeiters have found it profitable to substitute diethylene glycol for its chemical cousin, glycerin, which is usually more expensive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/us...nt&oref=slogin
Antibiotics:
China’s top drug regulator gets death sentence
In one instance, an antibiotic approved by Zheng’s agency killed at least 10 patients last year before it was taken off the market. Zheng Xiaoyu [took] bribes in cash and gifts worth more than $832,000 when he was director of the State Food and Drug Administration...The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also warned consumers not to buy or eat imported fish from China labeled as monkfish because it might actually be pufferfish, which contains a potentially deadly toxin called tetrodotoxin.The warning came days after three southern U.S. states banned imports of catfish from China because they contained traces of antibiotics the FDA says have never been approved for use in aquaculture.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18911849/
Dog food:
Chinese authorities acknowledged for the first time that ingredients exported to make pet food contained a prohibited chemical, stepping up their probe of two Chinese companies' roles in one of the USA's largest animal-food recalls.
While pledging cooperation with U.S. authorities investigating the recall, the Chinese government in a statement Thursday also disputed that the chemical — melamine, which is used to make plastic — was responsible for harming pets.... "There is no clear evidence showing that melamine is the direct cause of the poisoning or death of the pets," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing argued in a prepared statement.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/indust...od-china_N.htm
Heparin:
Federal drug regulators believe that a contaminant detected in a crucial blood thinner that has caused 81 deaths was added deliberately, something the
Food and Drug Administration has only hinted at previously.
“F.D.A.’s working hypothesis is that this was intentional contamination, but this is not yet proven,” Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s drug center, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in written testimony given Tuesday.
A third of the material in some batches of the thinner heparin were contaminants, “and it does strain one’s credulity to suggest that might have been done accidentally,” Dr. Woodcock said.
Two weeks ago, Food and Drug Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach told a Senate subcommittee that the contamination was done “by virtue of economic fraud,”...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/he...iberate&st=nyt
Lead paint:
n 2007, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall of 1.5 million Thomas toys made in China because they contained unsafe amounts of lead paint.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,7866975.story
Electronic components:
The FBI announced Friday that an investigation into counterfeit network components made in China and sold to the U.S. government has recovered about 3,500 fake devices with a value of $3.5 million. The criminal probe, code-named Operation Cisco Raider, was prompted by concerns that counterfeit network components could give hackers access to government databases.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-994...l?tag=nefd.pop
Bolts and fasteners:
In 2003, more than 66% of goods seized at ports of entry into this country were traced to China. What are Counterfeiting and Piracy Costing the American Economy. National Chamber Foundation, 2005.
http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache...ient=firefox-a
http://www.ebearing.com/counterfeit.htm
Golf clubs, car parts,books, prunes, razors, film, running shoes...
The World's Greatest Fakes
-Chinese Copies Are Making Their Way Back To U.S.
"We don't want to ignore counterfeiting, but for those foreign companies, when they enter the Chinese market, I'm afraid they should also pay some cost due to the realities of China," says Feng
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in595875.shtml
Are we so naive that we don't think the Chinese would doctor up some fuel to pass all bench tests, but still not be quite what it seems?
I sure hope a full GC mass spec analysis is being run on the retained fuel samples.