i'm just sayin', any time i get an e-mail that ends with "send this to
everybody you know"...it goes into the trash :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Monique Boea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:37 PM
Subject: RE: don't know how true this is ...but...
> And, it was sent to me by someone who actually saw it on the local channel
5
> news last night.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Candace Cottrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:27 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: don't know how true this is ...but...
>
>
> In fairness, it actually was a story reported on Dallas/Ft. Worth's
Channel
> 5 news. Just because it's on snopes doesn't mean it's an urban legend.
Some
> of the things on there thye have found to be either true or *undetermined*
> or *not quite* or *incomplete*.
>
> >From snopes:
>
> Claim: Dollar stores sell expired and foreign, non-ADA-approved
> formulations of toothpaste.
>
> Status: Incomplete.
>
> Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2004]
>
> Subject: Dollar Store Toothpaste(s)
>
> I don't know if any of you watched Channel 5 News last night, but they did
> an investigation on dollar stores (including Dollar Tree, Greenbacks & 99
> Cents). They discovered the Crest, Colgate and other brand name
toothpastes
> weren't the same as from Wal-mart, grocery stores etc. The toothpastes
were
> manufactured in many other countries and are not approved by the American
> Dental Association (ADA). There was even some from South Africa and the
> fluoride is ten times stronger than what we're allowed in the U.S.
> (prescription strength). They're allowed stronger because they don't have
> fluoridated water (like we do). So if we (or our kids) use it often and
> occasionally swallow it, we could be poisoning ourselves. The dollar
stores
> declined to comment and a full investigation has begun. So stick to paying
> full-price at the grocery store and send this e-mail to anyone who shops
at
> dollar stores.
>
> Origins: An NBC-affiliated television station in Dallas (KXAS) did air
the
> report summarized above - about finding expired and non-approved foreign
> formulations of toothpaste for sale in discount stores - on 11 May 2004.
We
> have not yet had a chance to look into the specifics of this report.
>
> Last updated: 21 May 2004
>
>
>
>
> Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer
> The Children's Medical Center
> One Children's Plaza
> Dayton, OH 45404
> 937-641-4293
>
> http://www.childrensdayton.org
>
> "There is no right price for the wrong product, even if it is inexpensive
> and delivered on time."
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/10/2004 9:05:13 AM >>>
>
> that's just the point. Too many people do that, then you have an urban
> legend, which snopes makes it its mission to debunk
>
> >I just cut and pasted it as it was sent to me.
> >
> >????
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 5:56 PM
> >To: CF-Community
> >Subject: Re: don't know how true this is ...but...
> >
> >
> >the funniest thing about the e-mail is the "I don't know if any of you
> >watched Channel 5 News last night"...
> >
> >My channel 5 is CBS. Back in Jersey it's FOX. Nobody receiving this
> >thought to question the lack of a concrete source of this
'investigation'?
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jim Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 2:38 PM
> >Subject: Re: don't know how true this is ...but...
> >
> >approved
> >> >by
> >> >the American Dental Association (ADA). There was even some from South
> >Africa
> >> >and
> >> >the fluoride is ten times stronger than what we're allowed in the U.S.
> >> >(prescription strength).
> >> >They're allowed stronger because they don't have fluoridated water
(like
> >we
> >> >do).
> >> >So if we (or our kids) use it often and occasionally swallow it, we
> could
> >be
> >> >poisoning ourselves. The dollar stores declined to comment and a full
> >> >investigation has begun. So stick to paying full-price at the grocery
> >store
> > _____
> _____
>
>
>
>
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