Tynk wrote in news:1184846711.404474.191790@
22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

On Jul 18, 12:01?am, "Reel McKoi" wrote:

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This is so true. Where does it leave us? I'll continue to use the fish
foods I have, but sure wouldn't buy anything made in China.

You also need to consider that just like certain ingredients in foods,
many things are made with "parts" from other countries.
So, even though they're being made in the US, they could actually be
100% non American.
Yrs back we had a '93 Chevy Corsica. Something broke down and needed
replacing. I forget what it was, but the old part was made of metal
and the new part was nearly all plastic, and made in China. Buncha
crap it was, that's for sure.
Refusing to buy anything made in China is going to be quite a
challange.
One thing I won't stop buying, is Hikari frozen fish foods. It's the
best on the market right now.
Even the largest competitor's (Sally's -- San Fran Bay brand) can't
hold a candle to it.
I checked the back of the package and it says "Product of China",
however, above it-- It says Hikari USA...and has a California address.
Without calling the directly, which they do have an 800 # listed, I
don't know whether the ones we have in the US are made in California,
or if the packaging is..or vice versa. It doesn't say.



"Product of China" means that the content is fully Chinese in origin. I
don't think it matters much in the case of Hikari frozen food, there's
almost nothing you need to do to seafood to preserve it, other than freeze
it quickly after processing, and keep your processing machinery clean.

If anyone is interested, melamine was discovered in US commerical fish-farm
feedstock, but didn't cause as much of a stir in that industry, as the
concentrations were much much lower. I don't know of any tropical pellet
or flake maker who has been a part of that supply chain.

In fisheries, the supply chain parties were;
- Ziegler (a feed maker for commercial fisheries, whose tainted product was
a shrimp pellet, which had binders and fillers in it)
- Uniscope (a company which made the binder, and sold it to Ziegler)
- Trembec (a Canadian company which made a resin, containing melamine,
which Uniscope used to make its binder)

If anyone ends up calling their fish food supplier, you can ask if any of
these three companies are suppliers to your food vendor.

Regards,
DaveZ