I searched online for any other reports of smelly plastic from China. I put a second bag around the first, and the smell passed right through the second wall. The smell passed right through the wall of the bag. I removed them, and put them in a plastic Ziploc bag. Its case had the same odor, with the greatest intensity coming from the black rubber-like feet on the case.
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The next year when I was back in Beijing, I bought another, better violin, and The violin case kept outgassing this smell as well, and would smell up a whole car or bedroom that it was in. When I arrived home, the smell of the hulusi case had permeated my day pack, and months after retained the chemical odor. As the long flight wore on, I started noticing that an odor similar to the hulusi case was coming from the violin case. On the flight home, I tossed the hulusi case in my day pack, and carried it and the violin on the plane, putting the violin in the overhead compartment. I later looked it up and it was some kind of organophosphate pesticide solution. I had no idea as a kid what sheep dip was - it was just something you used to keep your sheep clean.
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and that was the sheep dip I had used raising sheep in 4-H as a child in California. The hulusi case, pictured here, put out an odor I had never smelled before. I ended up buying a low priced violin and traditional Chinese hulusi. In the summer of 2007, on my last day in Beijing after teaching at a science summer school, I took a stroll and came across a music store. Below is a description of how I came upon this issue, followed by responses to this web page, and other reports from the web on the problem. This Web site is created in the hope of changing that. Something in the nature of the problem has prevented a widespread response - US toxics laws are inadequate, most people are either oblivious to odor, are too busy, stoic, in denial, passive, or resigned, to do anything, or believe that the chemicals will “air out”, or don't realize this is a new problem, or - most dangerously - think it is “normal”.
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New chemicals appear to have entered the manufacturing stream in China since around 2005 or so that are now flooding into US (and now global) markets in a variety of products. No, you're not crazy or overly sensitive - there really is a horrible smelling chemical coming from that item you recently bought that was made in China. Campaign to Ban Chemical-Emitting Smelly Plastic from China