check your imported fish food

[tuberider]

Not really reef food, more like trout chow®, but I still am going to stick with our domestic products provided by our sponsors


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/world/asia/13china.html

 

[Elite]

damn.. what's next?? >

 

[sfsuphysics]

Wake up call for more of a "Made in the USA" (or Made anywhere but China) approach to shopping?? Nah, we still want it as cheap as can be.

 

[GreshamH]

This has been an ongoing adventure for the last few years in aquaculture. Nothing new really We've been selling a TON of Otohime just because it's 100% not Chinese sourced products. Luckily the Japanese and Chinese don't mix all that well, especially in the Aquaculture world.

 

[Vincerama2]

Seriously China, WTF?!

Does Melamine fall from the sky there?

"Hey, melamine is our number one resource, what should we do with it?"
"Put it in dog and cat food!"
"oh, they noticed, recall it"
"Put it in milk so our BABIES can drink it"
"Oh, they noticed, recall it"
"Um, how about in fish food?"
"Oh, someone noticed, recall it"
"Um, how about ...."

What they should do is put melamine in their lead and vice versa, then no-one will complain.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out the Olympic medals were made with lead and melamine.

V

 

[Elite]

[quote author=sfsuphysics link=topic=5163.msg63693#msg63693 date=1226524106]
Wake up call for more of a "Made in the USA" (or Made anywhere but China) approach to shopping?? Nah, we still want it as cheap as can be.

[/quote]
Where do you find stuff Made in US?? Almost every freaking thing Made in China or some other countries. Even US car isn't made in US.. We try to buy food that is not made in China and it's almost next to impossible.

 

[GreshamH]

For starter, buy Japanese cars as the mostly are made here in the US

I can tell you Omega-1 is US made fish food. We source no products from China as well

It's not all Chinese factories. Companies like Sera own their won plant and control it 100%. They have very strict QC with intensive testing at all levels. Most major MO brands have control like this.

You don't hear about it alot but many US feed producers test all incoming feeds and products. The melamine laced stuff gets dumped, and typically it doesn't hit the news. I read about them all the time in the AC magazines I read

It's easy to find human food not from China and I shop at all the little import shops Korean and Japanese are pretty damn safe

 

[tuberider]

[quote author=Elite link=topic=5163.msg63697#msg63697 date=1226524531]
[quote author=sfsuphysics link=topic=5163.msg63693#msg63693 date=1226524106]
Wake up call for more of a "Made in the USA" (or Made anywhere but China) approach to shopping?? Nah, we still want it as cheap as can be.

[/quote]
Where do you find stuff Made in US?? Almost every freaking thing Made in China or some other countries. Even US car isn't made in US.. We try to buy food that is not made in China and it's almost next to impossible.
[/quote]

My truck was made in Smyrna Delaware ({s}lower Delaware as the northerners say)

 

[GreshamH]

My car was made right here in the bay area at the NUMI plant

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Japanese cars are more American than American cars

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB114731076341249773-vC7NDlPLXotsdDHpLbpm5Ewbo9E_20060610.html?mod=tff_article

Melamine pretty much does fall from the sky in China. It's a byproduct of plastics manufacturing.

 

[tuberider]

"Melamine is Mustangs"

 

[Mr. Ugly]

"Ice cream is 386 motherboards"

Time to go home, HAL... Sol... whoever

 

[fishnfst]

The other day I was in a japanese supermarket and thrift store.. In the thrift store at least 80 percent of the products were produced in china.. At teh supermarket at least 70% of the candy and cookies with a japanese theme were produced in china... IS nothing safe !!!

 

[GreshamH]

[quote author=fishnfst link=topic=5163.msg64360#msg64360 date=1226738361]
The other day I was in a japanese supermarket and thrift store.. In the thrift store at least 80 percent of the products were produced in china.. At teh supermarket at least 70% of the candy and cookies with a japanese theme were produced in china... IS nothing safe !!!
[/quote]

Wow Traditional you'd be safe from Chinese stuff at a Japanese store. Times have changed

 

[sfsuphysics]

Yikes, a couple years back I had a Korean girl and a Japanese girl in my physics class and every week they'd bring me some sort of tasty Japanese/Korean snack... I personally loved the Pocci sticks