Sunday, September 30, 2007

The story of a modest man

A simple working man who did something in Panama that no one else had done. Eduardo Arias read the list on ingredients on a tube of toothpaste and saw the words diethylene glycol. And because dozens of Panamanians had died because of cough syrup made with diethylene glycol labeled as glycerin last year, he knew it was poison. So he did something else that nobody had done, he took a tube to the Health Dept and began the world wide campaign against the Chinese habit of substituting poison for glycerin.

Until now no one outside of Panama's Health Dept. knew his name. He has received no reward or honor or even thanks.
He did not seem to mind.

“At least I contributed something,” he said.

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