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[QVCkitty1]

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@QVCkitty1 wrote:

Everytime I look for dried mushrooms for a recipe, they are from China, and I just won't take the chance.

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@QVCkitty1

We get dried mushrooms from Trader Joe's.  Pretty sure they're not from China, but I'll double check next time.  If you have one in your area, you might want to check it out.

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I wish we had a Trader Joe's , their things always sound interesting.

[Marp]

The following is an excerpt from a very old article (2007) but you can be fairly certain the situation remains the same.

The United States requires labels on seafood to mark where it came from. However, that's the exception. With most foods, companies are not required to label where ingredients come from, only where the food was packaged or processed.

That means it is possible a frozen dinner, for example, could have 20 different ingredients from 20 different countries, food analysts say.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/07/26/china.products/index.html?_s=PM:LIVING

[skuggles]

@Marp Here's a more recent article that  came across that is more disconcerting: http://newzmagazine.com/2017/01/12/usda-says-okay-ship-u-s-chickens-china-cheap-processing-back-home...

[Twins Mom]

If you have details on this new EPA law regarding pesticides, would appreciate website or where you got.  Very troubling in t his age of concern over our food supply. thanks for heads up.

[Mominohio]

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@software wrote:

The last thing a company wants is to make more information available on their label.  If it weren't for state & federal laws on the books now, we would know NOTHING.

It's getting harder to find food in this country.   I think it's a bad idea for many reasons.

In Alabama, all seafood on a restaurant menu or grocery store or fish market must list country of origin and whether farmed or wild caught.   It's a state law.

@Mominohio

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@software

I probably didn't make myself clear, but what I meant to say was that if a company is making and sourcing food here, they should definitely put that on their label (some don't bother to do so), as it would benefit sales (I believe it would anyway) with so many people now concerned about where their food is sourced.

If it's made or grown here, show that off!

[esmeraldagooch]

Many of the companies you're used to buying food products from are now owned by Chinese companies.   They can do what ever they want.  I guess you have to stay up on who ownes whom.

[silentgirl]

@Twins Mom

EPA.gov

Order Denying Petition to Revoke All Tolerances for the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

[Kachina624]

Did you know almost 100% of the garlic consumed in America is grown in China?  No labels to read on those garlic cloves. 

[Sooner]

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@skuggles wrote:

I read fairly recently that chicken from China would be sold in our supermarkets. Not sure if it's where I shop. Does anyone else  think chicken tastes bad enough as it is , unless it's local farm organic, without adding the time of shipping and the quality issues in China? I can hardly stomach it anymore, because it tastes so bad.

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I don't think organic chicken really tastes different, but that is what I buy.  I don't shop at Aldi's in big part because a lot of thier things are either made in China or don't say WHERE they are made.  NO thanks. 

[Noel7]

We are not far from the garlic capital of the US, Gilroy, CA.   I hope that means we are getting Gilroy garlic.