Foxconn underage worker scandal intensifies

Foxconn Technology Group, in breach of Chinese law, has admitted to hiring teenagers as young as 14.

Foxconn is the world's largest contract electronics maker and supplier of Apple Computer.

WP: "Cause for Concern In Chinese Bulbs?"

...Most of us buy garlic at a supermarket. We don't know what kind it is, how fresh it is or where it's grown. But there's a good chance it comes from China, which produces 75 percent of the world's supply...

Garlic is the United States' biggest fresh-vegetable import from China, which sent us 138 million pounds of it worth more than $70 million last year. We also get small amounts from Mexico, Argentina and about 15 other countries. We eat a lot of garlic -- about three pounds per person a year.

Although most of our fresh garlic comes from halfway around the world, it's cheaper than garlic grown in California...

Washington Post article