Friday, October 24, 2008
What do parents do for sweets this Halloween?
However, my utmost concern is: what else has not been disclosed to us?
In Trader Joe's today, I found a new label on my favorite seafood package showing the scallops are from Thailand and shrimps from China. I was thankful for such disclosure. Surveying many packaged food, I am still disappointed at no such label of country origins on them.
I am wondering whether some food manufacturers would answer to consumers' request of asking for where the country origin of the food ingredients. If anyone is interested in doing such survey, please email me.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
It's not just food ingredients, how about medication?
While we want to know the from-where information of our food ingredients, the tragedy of tainted blood thinner Heparin killing and sickening people in U. S. and the rest of the world also makes us desire to know how best we can protect our loved ones.
In the contaminated blood thinner Heparin cases, people paid for products that are supposed to help them. They did not, instead, they hurt people. We are living in a society taking food safety very seriously. But to cut the cost, the manufacturers and suppliers import ingredients from countries that have low or no food safety concerns for their own people. We are essentially living, to some extent, in a third-world society.
I know some of us don’t care, but many do care. Most people would not feed their loved ones something that can cause cancer or do harms.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Law or consumer pressure?
We do need to have laws to require certain transparency in our food chain. But how long would it take? Let check into the process of COOL.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Ingredient Matters
Does any one know where the ingredients of Oreo cookies come from?
How about M & M?
How about Dreyer's Ice Cream?