While Bangladesh has become a poster child for what's wrong with Asia's factories, Myanmar, Pakistan, China, Indonesia and India are even riskier to brands for sourcing goods and investing, according to Maplecroft, a risk-analysis firm based in Bath, England.

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But when there are huge financial interests on both sides of the matter and when doctors perform tests simply to avoid lawsuits, I worry about the scientific objectivity of any analysis like this that advocates such sweeping policy changes that could throw out many babies with the bath water.

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