[deMolay]

I recieved this email. Is this true about the barcodes?............DANGEROUS IMPORTED FOODS





The whole world is scared of China making 'black hearted goods'. Can you
differentiate which one is made in the USA , Philippines , Taiwan or China ?
For your Information ... the first 3 digits of the barcode is the country
code wherein the product was made. Sample: all barcodes that start with
690.691.692 until 695 are all MADE IN CHINA.


4 71 is Made in Taiwan



This is our human right to know, but the government and related department
never educate the public, therefore we have to RESCUE ourselves. Nowadays,
Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer products 'made in
china', so they don't show from which country it is made.

However, you may now refer to the barcode, remember if the first 3 digits is
690 to 695, then it is Made in China

00 ~ 13 USA & CANADA

30 ~ 37 FRANCE

40 ~ 44 GERMANY

49 ~ JAPAN

50 ~ UK

57 ~ Denmark

64 ~ Finland

76 ~ Switzerland and Lienchtenstein

628 ~ Saudi-Arabian

629 ~ United Arab Emirates

740 ~ 745 - Central America

All 480 Codes are Made in the Philippines



DO NOT BUY FOOD PROCESSED IN CHINA, HONG KONG, VIETNAM AND THAILAND !!!

There are no food inspection regulations!!!

Have a taste for chicken tenders? READ THIS

WATCH WHAT YOU BUY. ESPECIALLY HIGHLINER FISH PRODUCTS; all come from China
, even though the box says ' product of Canada ', it is from China and
'processed' in Canada , that is, the coating is added and packaged in Canada
only! The fish are raised in pens using chemicals that are banned in Canada
as cancer causing but legal in China . This was exposed on CBC TV's
Marketplace.

Well, are you enjoying seeing Chinese food popping up in your supermarket
left and right? Have you noticed you can't buy a single package of fish that
isn't made in China (or Vietnam )? Do you think your food from China is
processed in a sanitary manner, and thus safe to eat?

Avoid buying all processed food packaged in China Anything goes! We just
don't know what else is in those packages. Unlike in the U.S. And CANADA ,
China does not have laws regulating food processing.

Basically , do not buy any processed food from China , also Hong Kong ,
too. MANY companies are using a Hong Kong address to avoid this type of
image reputation.

Do NOT buy food originating in China (or Vietnam or Thailand)! Take the time
to read the labels and look for country of origin! STOP BUYING ANYTHING FROM
CHINA . PERIOD ~ Your Health is at Stake!

[timmac]

Tyson chicken now has a processing plant in China, maybe 2 plants, soon they will be importing chicken from China in the same Tyson bags we see at the stores, I just don't know why our country is so over imported with stuff, 1st it was clothes and plastic toys, than shoes, electronics, cars, tires, now our damn food is soon going to be from China, when are we going to wake up..

Maybe peak oil will stop all this imports, hey maybe thats when we all get our jobs back, Right.

[mos6507]

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')maybe thats when we all get our jobs back, Right.

[timmac]

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')maybe thats when we all get our jobs back, Right.

[Blacksmith]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('timmac', 'W')e had our chance but we blew it when we did not get Ross Perot in the White House, [no joke],, maybe he will come back in 2012.

[the48thronin]

A great percentage of all sea food sold in the USA ( including restaurants was reported as coming from Asia 4 years ago.) As a made in USA shopper who routinely documents my purchases on my face book page and on my blog I offer the following information.

Sea food frozen or fresh.. It is a law that RAW retail sea food sales be labeled country of origin. I have spent hours taking pictures in stores of sea food and other items. The deviousness of the retailers is unimaginable. Alaskan salmon steaks can say product of china in very small letters while fresh caught wild and (pond raised) fed are another matter you really want to know. Surprisingly in SAFEWAY and food 4 less on the west coast the cheaper store brands are usually made in USA while the name brands are almost universally from somewhere in Asia.

I invested 68 dollars today in Delmonte canned vegetables, one can each of everything in stock at Walmart where canned in USA is written on the label of the Delmonte cans this time of year... in a few months that will be replaced by "distributed by" and I will be done buying delmonte for a while. Many other brands offer nothing in information as to origin depending on you to decide that hey those guys in PA wouldn't contract someone outside the USA to can their stuff would they.. Distributed by, made by, made for, mean nothing, you can contract an Asian supplier and license them to put made by Yoda MFG, 406 pa avenue, not there, Pennsylvania on every can...

According to the federal labeling laws the following terms have meaning on food items. RAW or frozen or canned or packaged.

"Canned in USA" means canned in the USA or it's territories. While it doesn't tell you where the items and additional ingredients were made, the canning process was done here under USDA control.

Product of USA means the main ingredients less any spices or preservative or nutritional additives were in fact made or grown in the USA or it's territories.

There are some logo versions you need to look carefully at to understand the true meaning.

FOR INSTANCE my favorite rant USDA inspected on meat or seafood from outside the USA.

To qualify for this logo or label the item must be processed or packaged in a country that has a food inspection agreement with the USDA. Some resident of that country has to be a graduate of a USA veterinary course. ( for most central Americans I met this was the Univ of Arizona). Having graduated from a USA veterinary school they can become certified as USDA inspectors. They also can be the brother in law, dependent cousin or what ever of the food processing plant owner.

Mordida ( paying a bribe) is so common in many cultures that receipts are routinely given for the mordida..LOL Guess how much they actually care about USA silly laws on cleanliness, hand washing, etc?

There are standards for the inspections, those standards require proof of meeting the standards by forms filled out and signed by that inspector veterinary. I have personally known several of those veterinary food inspectors who had in fact never even once visited the plant they were certifying, nor had they in fact themselves done any lab work on that product meat or sea food. Who was gonna catch them in a country that has ONE international airport if they are related to someone who would report to them any USDA personnel who came into the country. DO you think our ambassadors go checking?

Think for a minute... If a cannery is in a village on the coast of say Nicaragua , ( either coast) in a coastal village and owned by or contracted to a major multinational food company, which person in the entire chain of distribution would gain if the government here refused to let them import their product?

Now as a shopper consider this, how does a fishery in a village where the entire village population has not one indoor bathroom nor the first instance of running water but doe have hundreds of people working at the only job in town (processing the catch from the harbor) feel to you as a safe place to import sea food from? Or say shrimp "pond raised" in what is a rice patty that uses shrimp as crop rotation, again the only disposal for the entire village is the outhouses that sit out over the dike to replace the fertilizer and high dollar grain feed with what is needed to dispose of anyway as has been done for generations do to impress you with the quality of the farm raised talapia?

And one other important thought about "dangerous imported food".

DDT which enters the food chain and never leaves was banned in the USA many decades ago. In fact so long ago that testing for DDT is not required for USDA meat and sea food inspectors. BUT guess how many of the places we import meat and seafood from have never banned DDT which will not be tested for in their exported food products? Guess how much testing is done in cancer patients for DDT levels... YUP NONE!

I remember when I was renting tractors that were used to plant the cotton looking at the tanks of DDT sprayers and thinking about the tons of cotton seed hulls that were later fed to the cattle and as food in the cat fish ponds by the smiling residents who were doing their jobs enjoying their 15$ a month wages...
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[the48thronin]

CHICKEN

The last I knew it was unlawful to import an chicken raised in China. 15 years ago all the chicken houses in my area lost their contracts with conagra when they lost a lawsuit about "fixed" scales at the processing plant in Dothan Alabama. The processing plant was sold to a Chinese firm,, who promptly laid off everyone except the people needed to kill and process carcasses for packing in containers to be shipped to china. In China those chickens are cut and packages as chicken parts for retail sales all over the USA.

I am sure there is some system in place that on paper will show that all the parts shipped to the USA come from chickens that were raised in the USA and sent to china for "processing".

Sure there is a system in place, manned by veterinary USDA inspectors.. You bet there is!

[deMolay]

Good eye opener 48.