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<\/a>This is follow-up to my previous post about this cotton. I’ll keep this as short as I can but there is a lot to cover.<\/p>\n
1) Tony Wang, a sales manager, and I have had a days-long email conversation. He said the regulatory compliance certificates had trade secrets and he couldn’t show them to me unless I kept them confidential. If I didn’t he said they would sue me. I asked for an NDA. He has not replied in days, even after several additional emails to him regarding this and other things described below. These documents are not secret. They are meant to be given to customs inspectors, prospective customers, etc., as proof of claimed compliance and testing.<\/p>\n
2) Another version of Angorabbit cotton being sold at 3fvape, Fasttech, DHGate, etc., is using the Bugs Bunny character on the front and says \u201cMade in USA\u201d on the back. That\u2019s IP theft and an interesting country-of-manufacture claim. No, there is no city in China named \u201cUSA\u201d. \ud83d\ude42 Photos here: https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/Eyqql<\/p>\n
3) The photos that Angorabbit, Tina Yang, and Tony Wang have posted on Facebook and Instagram, and said were the fields where their Angorabbit cotton is grown, appear as generic pictures on several China news sites in articles about the cotton harvest and market in 2016 and later. Photos here: https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ifT8E<\/p>\n
4) The Angorabbit package claims FCC and RoHS regulatory compliance. That\u2019s preposterous as these only apply to electronics. Lion Eco-Technology Co., Ltd (\u201cLion\u201d) has no idea what these compliance marks are for, not a good sign. Photos here: https:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/DpXdP<\/p>\n
5) The Angorabbit package claims CE and FDA regulations\/standards compliance. You can self-certify for CE compliance, no secrets are in that document. The FDA claim was made, Lion says, because they sell medical cotton too so the FDA \u201capproval\u201d is also for Angorabbit cotton. Umm…no. Show us the documents or tell us the FDA file number so we can check the public database. Lion won\u2019t tell anyone.<\/p>\n
6) The Angorabbit package claims compliance with ISO standards. There are over 20,000 of them and very few deal with cotton. Those that do address things like cotton bale density and color fastness along with other stuff. Claiming compliance is useless unless we know which standards. Lion won\u2019t tell anyone.<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s actually in the Angorabbit bag? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
Does Lion have all those technicians and fields of cotton? Did they take seven months to develop this cotton? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
But I do know there are a lot of things here that I don\u2019t like. I would like to see test results for pesticides, heavy metals and bacteria (done for medical cotton) for Angorabbit cotton done by an EU or US lab. Actually, I\u2019d love to see this for all the cotton we use.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t care what batteries, mods, wire, or cotton each of us uses, we\u2019re all adults here. But I do want us to have all the information we need to make an informed decision. I\u2019m hoping Lion provides us with that information.<\/p>\n
Mooch<\/p>\n