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Originally Posted by missik999
No food or pet food from China at my house.
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Really?? I wonder how you do it, as there is almost impossible to track the origin of processed food. Many products come raw and are processed here in the US, and then its called Made in USA. Many products are made from several ingredients - some may be from China.
The ingredients must be listed on the label, but the source of those ingredients need not be identified. The statement of origin for these processed foods requires only the name and address of the company that manufactured or processed the food.
As soon the product change character by cooking (e.g. frying, broiling, grilling, boiling, steaming, baking, roasting), curing (e.g. salt curing, sugar curing, drying), smoking, cutting in pieces etc. the "new" product is excluded from "country of origin" label regulation. Another example: a whole fish imported from China, then filleted, or cut in pieces and breaded - in the USA, and the label will say Product of USA.
Most processed food in the USA has added vitamins.... from China. A garlic in your salad dressing is most likely from China.
Your dog food? Has it added vitamins? The chances are that those vitamins are imported from China. And so, other ingredients in that food. Pet food industry is an extension of the human food and agriculture industries. Whatever can't be used to prepare human food will be used to make a pet food. You might want to read this:
What’s Really in Pet Food
Nowadays you cannot completely eliminate imported products. You cannot grow or make everything at home, from scratch.
Knowing where our food comes from does matter, but even though we may want that information, the reality is that most of the time we won’t have it. What really would matter is a honest, reliable inspection of ALL imported foods. When we get assured that the imported components in our food are safe, then we will stop worrying about where they came from.
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