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Re: Whole Foods 365 organic brand- from China???
Yep, DH & I got a nasty case of pine mouth from pine nuts that were WF 365 brand. When I checked the label--product of China. Pine mouth is most common in the Chinese pine species, possibly due to the chemicals used in shelling.
Yuck. After that, I check all our labels to see where the food is from.
As far as I know, companies are only required to label where food was packed or processed, so ingredients in processed foods can come from anywhere and you'd never know. I don't think all 365 products are made in China though, just some. Please correct me if I'm misinformed.
Also, I found this:
http://blog.wholefoodsmarket.com/2008/06/is-organic-from-china-possible/
Is Organic from China Possible?
by Joe Dickson, June 6th, 2008 | Permalink | Email this
Update: June 13, 2010
Since I wrote this post about two years ago, we?ve had a few changes and I wanted to make sure anyone reading this is up to speed on current information.
As of this summer (2010), we are no longer sourcing any of our Whole Foods Market 365 Everyday Value food products from China EXCEPT for frozen edamame (shelled and unshelled, organic and conventional). This means that out of more than 2,000 365 Everyday Value products right now, only ten are from China. These products include tea and frozen vegetables. We will be selling through the remaining stock of six of those over the summer, and the edamame will be the only one remaining at that time.
I want to be really clear that we didn?t stop sourcing from China because of quality or food safety concerns. As I explain in the post below, we have always had great confidence in our vendor partners in China, and we have taken great steps ? including visiting farms and processing facilities ourselves, in addition to organic certification ? to verify that those suppliers have the same level of integrity and commitment to quality as the rest of our partners across the world.
Our move to other sources is simply that through a routine bidding process, we found several suppliers in other countries, including the U.S., that offered the same or better quality at better prices. This was primarily a business decision ? changing vendors was a good decision for our customers right now. As mentioned, we will continue to source edamame from China because we are not able to find the same high quality edamame for the same price anywhere else. (In order to provide our customers with a choice, we also stock a premium, domestic frozen edamame from Columbia River Organics, a family-owned farm in Washington State.)
While some of our customers have questioned our sourcing from China, ultimately this was a business decision based on maintaining or improving both the quality and price of our private label products. It?s possible that we will source more products from China again in the future. The bottom line is that beyond quality and price, we give our customers many choices in the products we offer and where they are sourced.
Another important clarification: it has always been our policy and practice to clearly label fresh produce with its country of origin. While we do not purchase fresh produce from China for national distribution, in some circumstances stores may bring in Chinese products such as edamame, ginger, shiitake mushroom and garlic. For example, in the Vancouver market items with origins in Asia are very common and in high demand. Product of China may be among our offerings in select markets such as Vancouver BC. Again, there is always country of origin labeling by all fresh produce.
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