Temu products found to contain dangerously high levels of harmful metals in shocking documentary which reveals how the Chinese retailer ‘harvests data’ from buyers – after girl, 11, was severely burned by nail glue she bought from the platform
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13476177/New-shocking-documentary-explores-dark-Temu.html
Posted by Tyler119
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I am shocked, shocked to discover that shockingly cheap tat from Temu is dangerously and shockingly cheap tat.
Everything you buy from amazon etc is also from Temu, just sold at a higher price lmao.
I find it hard to believe that one of the most civilisation views the West as some kind of cash cow.
Hang on, that didn’t come out right…
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It’s not about the products it’s the data harvesting that’s what they want DATA
To the surprise of absolute nobody.
Who would have thought that some of the most inexpensive, regulation-avoiding items in their store are made from equally inexpensive materials of dubious origin.
It’s no wonder we all have plastics floating around [in our bollocks](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1dcqxcy/microplastics_found_in_every_human_semen_sample/?ref=share&ref_source=link).
Who could’ve guessed that cheap Chinese shit is cheap Chinese shit
I dont think this should be a surprise to anyone tbh
Buy buy buy. We should be more conscious about our purchases.
People that shop at Temu strike me as the same people that complain about how immigrants are ruining the country by driving wages down.
Place where I worked used to routinely test toys and stuff for heavy metals in paint, usually cheap imported tat picked up from markets by environmental health officers, all went by the wayside with the single market and things being tested before import (CE mark).
All gone now of course and probably on a much bigger scale with mass import via amazone etc.
What ever happened to the kite mark and the CE mark? Maybe it’s just the middle aged rose tinted glasses, but I feel like we used to have regulations for stuff like this, and you couldn’t really buy dodgy shit unless it was out of the back of some van at a car boot sale.
So the place that sells stuff made through slave labour is selling unsafe items?
Is anyone actually shocked by this?
>shocking documentary
Is anyone else not, in fact, shocked by these revelations?
I can’t believe a Chinese retailer with execution worthy garbage commercials sold harmfully dogshit items to people and harvested data.
So shocked
Taking a different angle, Temu is an interesting indicator that the Chinese economy is having issues. With domestic demand crumbling, many Chinese manufacturers are offloading their overproduction abroad for crazy low prices to simply keep their factories turning over. We are witnessing this with Chinese EVs. Domestic sales of EVs are greatly deflated, so they’re offloading them, primarily to Russia.
I can’t believe people buy the utter shite you see on temu
This is stuff made in China for standards in China … which pretty much don’t exist, right? Buying something chemical like that is a big risk.
I hadn’t really thought about the cheap shitty jewellery being full of lead, but I guess that’s not surprising.
Harmful metals + selling medical treatments for heavy metal poisoning = profit. <–Temu Board meeting
Harvesting data has been a secondary profit avenue for ages so singling out Temu seems weird. If you’ve ever applied for a job online there’s a really high chance that all your info is out there to buy.
Temu is beyond a scam at this point. I find it mental how anyone buys from there. You’re not getting a bargain, you’re getting shoddily-made tat at best… dangerous goods and your data harvested at worst.
Lucky I ain’t eating playing cards and a USB then isn’t it