Argentina promises to reopen book imports: ‘lead poisoning ink argument too heavy’
Argentina’s restrictions on books imports based on the ‘lead content of the ink in which they are published’ and the fact the Argentine government described the implementation as a “safeguard for human health” echoed worldwide, and official sources have now promised the situation will “be back to normal” in a few weeks.
According to Argentina’s Book Chamber sources from the Domestic Trade Secretariat said that all foreign made publications will soon be cleared to enter the country.
The news reported in the Buenos Aires press said that public officials working in Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno’s department assured that the blockade on foreign books and magazines was the result of “misinterpreting” a regulation that limited the entrance of books containing a certain amount of lead in their ink.
Allegedly government officials promised that the delivery of all books purchased abroad via mail “will go back to normal in the coming weeks”.
Regulation 26/12 establishes that before any sale, the book's ink has to be certified as containing less than 0.06%. The regulation will go in effect in June.
The Argentine Book Chamber held several talks with Secretariat officials in the last few days after some of its members had been unable to have their medicine and science books delivered to their homes.
Even though these sources said that their conversations were always “in good terms,” when asked about the nature of the delays, they simply replied: “Moreno doesn’t give explanations to anyone.”
The ban on all books purchased abroad caused outrage among editorial organizations and people used to shopping online in popular sites such as Amazon.com.
Angry buyers took to social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in order to condemn the measure while urging the Government to “release the books”.
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There is so much to be gained from reading the subversive thoughts of other people's points of view
...... You don't have to touch the little black leady wordy-bits, and I don't think that the Argentinian reading-classes have yet resorted to eating their books.
Chuckle Chuckle.
If there was lead in Chinese toys, why not in ink? Europeans and Americans obviously don't care for their children's safety, that's why they get sick from outbreaks and poisoning so often.
It's well known that for 2 decades American and European consumers have looked the other way at these products because of the price. Now in the last two years we are seeing the roosting begin, with all these findings about safety and health.
You're clearly incapable of objective thought, but for everyone else this was a clear act of censorship.
Get over it, we did.
www.amazon.com/Wheres-Poop-Julie-Markes/dp/0060530898
We use toilet paper and the bidet. The Bidet is universal fixture in our bathrooms. Use toilet paper for the first step, then anything “left” is taken care of with warm water and soap (or some of those new disposable gloves with dry soap already in them).
You can bet there are more cases of raw skin in England (or insert any other country without bidets here_____), in one day than in Argentina in a decade.
The fact is, argentinians don't know how to use the toilet or wipe their arses, and that's what you'll find at the end of my informative book. The only reason my arse is raw is because it's clean, the reason yours isn't raw is because it's lubricated with poo.
The sequel to the book is where I start talking about your hairstyles. It's called 'where's mullet'.
www.amazon.com/Hurts-Story-Children-Scared-Potty/dp/1433801310
And seconly not all argentine homes have bidet's only the rich that like having something squirted at the rear ends have them. the middle class.. only if their lucky. The poor... Well i geuss the sewage streaming running down the middle of the streets outside there homes in the slums is the nearest thing they have to bidet!
When I was in London I could not find transparent tap water. So you guys have more pressing problems.
Problem officer?
Fixed.
And don't pretend that you've gone to London, if you'd have gone there with your 'Malvinas Argentinas' Le Camping T-shirt everyone would have laughed at you and laughed until you'd have wet yourself a bit and then had to walk around with a big patch of wee smelling stain on your trousers and mullet-cried.
No point pretending.
I ate at this pizzeria not far from Hyde Park, on a street corner. I must admit it was better pizza than I had at the Duomo in Milan.
Europeans were delighted to see an Argie with money, like in the old days.
Or paint-based illuminated texts and manuscripts - some people would pica on anything.
Talk about leading the nation by the nose .... err, mouth, ... err fingers.
Hmmm .... seems I have too much time on my hands today.
@21 Typically in the UK people don't let Argentinians dine at their establishment because Argentinian's girlfriends are normally too young for people's value system . They don't want their restaurant being called 'groomland' or 'glitterland'.
Also argentinian customers don't know how to use the toilet, they normally defecate on their hands and then scream at the man selling the cologne in the corner. It's frightfully off-putting.
Me too. How is the model ship coming along?
(lets talk about something happy for a change).
You got it all wrong, the hand defacation was just because that's what travel books suggest one do to abide by British traditions. We use toilet paper and the bidet. That's specially useful in the summer, no itches here while Europeans are always with their finger up their a$$. Then the undies are cholocate color.
Apparently Argentinians like bidets because it allows them to stimulate their rectum which reminds them of the last time Le Camping came to force them into voting for maximos mum.
No, it's the foreigners that get stimulated, because when they see one they become like little savages who have never seen civilization before.
Interesting the reactions to seeing a bidet the first time: some foreigners including Brits think it is a foot washer. Others think it is a private water fountain and drink away (good thing argie tap water unlike the rest of Latin America is safe for the poor foreign souls). Yet others don't ask anything and experiment themselves in the middle of the night while I sleep.
Poor foreign lads, half the time I have to end up in the hospital at 2.30 im the morning, they took their bidet fantasies too far and scolded their rectum with second degree burns. I have to translate since their language is exotic. Kinda like caring for innocent animals, those foreigns and Brits that visit us.
Everyone knows this.
What is not propaganda but fact is that the Brits, really the Europeans, have had recurring bouts with Bubonic plague. That's because they don't shower too often (with the lack of tap water and all you know), so they can't wash away the fleas they tend to carry.
I don't think there has even been a bubonic outbreak in Argentina, we shower twice a day and have clean tap water.
yes, I know what you mean.
Pity is that atm my HMS Bounty is in Brasil and I am in London, so no work being done on the spars and rigging. Plenty of time though.
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