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Posted by blair thompson on July 17, 2007, 4:31 pm
Please log in for more thread options With all the conflab recently about tainted pet food and
toothpaste imported from China, I started to wonder how toxic the
frozen brine shrimp, bloodworms, etc also manufactured and packaged
there might be to our fish.
I asked at my LFS, and they said that, although made in China,
the brand they carried was "sterilized" (Hmmm.). I note that the
"Frostbites" brand carried by Walmart also originates in China.
Just wondering...
Blair.
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Posted by Reel McKoi on July 17, 2007, 5:28 pm
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> With all the conflab recently about tainted pet food and
> toothpaste imported from China, I started to wonder how toxic the
> frozen brine shrimp, bloodworms, etc also manufactured and packaged
> there might be to our fish.
> I asked at my LFS, and they said that, although made in China,
> the brand they carried was "sterilized" (Hmmm.). I note that the
> "Frostbites" brand carried by Walmart also originates in China.
>
> Just wondering...
> Blair.
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I've stopped buying anything edible from China. Sterilizing food doesn't
remove the non-edible and toxic filler products they add to the food. If it
was made in China too it out.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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Posted by Telstar on July 17, 2007, 8:33 pm
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>> With all the conflab recently about tainted pet food and
>> toothpaste imported from China, I started to wonder how toxic the
>> frozen brine shrimp, bloodworms, etc also manufactured and packaged
>> there might be to our fish.
>> I asked at my LFS, and they said that, although made in China,
>> the brand they carried was "sterilized" (Hmmm.). I note that the
>> "Frostbites" brand carried by Walmart also originates in China.
>>
>> Just wondering...
>> Blair.
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> I've stopped buying anything edible from China. Sterilizing food doesn't
> remove the non-edible and toxic filler products they add to the food. If
> it was made in China too it out.
I agree, but it is impossible now to determine ingredients in say Tetramin
Oranda etc. or for that matter any other brand....they are not required to
indicate where each ingredient comes from, and the same concoction in the
news is in almost all dried fish food.
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Posted by Reel McKoi on July 18, 2007, 1:01 am
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> I agree, but it is impossible now to determine ingredients in say Tetramin
> Oranda etc. or for that matter any other brand....they are not required to
> indicate where each ingredient comes from, and the same concoction in the
> news is in almost all dried fish food.
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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.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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Posted by Tynk on July 19, 2007, 8:05 am
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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.
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> toothpaste imported from China, I started to wonder how toxic the
> frozen brine shrimp, bloodworms, etc also manufactured and packaged
> there might be to our fish.
> I asked at my LFS, and they said that, although made in China,
> the brand they carried was "sterilized" (Hmmm.). I note that the
> "Frostbites" brand carried by Walmart also originates in China.
>
> Just wondering...
> Blair.