U.S. Warns Over Chinese Toothpaste

US officials have warned consumers to avoid using toothpaste made in China. A shipment was found to contain a poisonous chemical used in anti-freeze.The Food and Drug Administration said it could contain diethylene glycol, which has been blamed for the deaths of at least 50 people in Panama last year. The brands affected are usually sold at bargain rates at retail outlets. The warning comes amid a series of contamination scandals involving Chinese exports to the Americas. On Thursday, Nicaraguan health authorities seized 40,000 tubes of Chinese made toothpaste after they found it contained DEG. Panama, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic had already removed thousands of tubes of toothpaste from store shelves.