Oreos are made in CHINA????? Read this.

[Vinca]

HONG KONG, China (AP) -- British chocolate maker Cadbury said Monday that tests have "cast doubt" on the safety of its Chinese-made products and ordered a recall, the latest foreign company affected by China's tainted milk scandal. A researcher in Wuhan last week checks for melamine in milk samples collected from stores.
Meanwhile, two U.S. food makers were investigating Indonesian claims that high traces of melamine were found in Chinese-made Oreos, M&Ms and Snickers.


More here -http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/29/candy.milk.ap/index.html

[ShortnFiery]

1. OMG! Oreos is one thing, but not SNICKERS!

:(

[JI7]

2. the ones that are sold in China and that region

i don't think the ones sold in the United States are made in China.

[Vinca]

8. I wouldn't be so sure. I was looking at a package of cookies

at the store one day and noticed they were made in Indonesia. Even if the Oreos aren't made in China, how do we know there is no Chinese milk being imported to make them? This is going to do wonders for my weight, I can tell you that.

[DainBramaged]

27. Oreos for consumptrion in the US are made HERE, just stop

Why do people want to destroy every icon we have?


alarmist

a person who tends to raise alarms, esp. without sufficient reason, as by exaggerating dangers or prophesying calamities. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alarmist

[Romulox]

39. You have ZERO idea where the ingredients they make oreos come from. None. nt

[zbdent]

18. maybe, maybe not ... consider the shelf life of the average

Twinkie ...

[madrchsod]

3. oreos and candy made for asian markets not us markets...

[lligrd]

4. Ugh! nt

[vanderBeth]

5. But I love Cadbury Eggs. :'(

:cry:

Edit: Okay, I don't live in Asia of Australia. :)

[progressivemom]

36. Cadbury Eggs are the best part of spring! :)

[HereSince1628]

6. Off-shoring. What a great idea!!! Lax or no regulation!!! PROFITS!!!!!

By cracky, nothing is going to stop Globalization. It's time we embrace it.

[liberal N proud]

7. Why do we purchase any food products from China?

There have been so many problems with food coming from China. Second, this food is one commodity that there is no shortage of in this country.
It makes no fucking sense how companies have outsourced this and we have lost any safety we thought we had gained through government inspections and laws.

Thanks again to the bu$h regime for allowing the American people to the loss of safety.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. What will we tell the children?

[livelongandprosper]

10. Why the fuck does anyone buy any food product from China?

Can't we learn from anything?

[conspirator]

20. Why not? If you are a greedy CEO, and know your children aren't eating those cookies.

profit is only what you care about

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

23. Where would you suggest the Chinese buy their food? n/t

[vi5]

11. I can say first hand without a doubt...

Oreos sold in the USA are made in the USA.

[Vinca]

12. Are any of their ingredients imported? nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. That would not be listed. We know chocolate is imported as is vanilla, so who's to say

about the other ingredients?

[vi5]

17. Not from China....

...and not many, if at all in Oreos. Trust me, nobody wants to pay freight to ship something from overseas if it can be bought within the country. Not because of some need to buy american, but because the savings on imports don't outweigh the shipping/freight costs in today's market.

[Romulox]

26. Of mostly imported contented, likely...nt

[vi5]

35. Actually no.

I'm not going to go into personal details about my background and career but let's just say I know unequivically and beyond the shadow of a doubt that the majority (sizable majority) of ingredients in Oreos are not imported. And the few that are, come from European or Scandanavian countries (not China) because that is the only place those are produced (ie. Dutch Cocoa).

There's not much that I request that people defer to my knowledge on, but unless you're the person who held my former job either before or after me (and I know both people and they're NOT on DU) then this is one of the few areas I can claim to know something about.

[Romulox]

41. Cacao is primarily grown in Africa, Asia, and Central/South America. Not Holland.

The cacao may be processed in the Netherlands, but this just tends to reinforce the point that country of assembly doesn't really reflect the origin of the ingredients.

"There's not much that I request that people defer to my knowledge on, but unless you're the person who held my former job either before or after me (and I know both people and they're NOT on DU) then this is one of the few areas I can claim to know something about."

[vi5]

43. But that's the same for every company..

Any company that has any chocolate in any of their products. So if what you're advocating is a boycott of chocolate because it's grown in those countries, then go right ahead. Power to the people. I'll back that.

But the fact is that I was literally the person who purchased ingredients for, reviewed specifications for, reviewed quality information for the production of Oreos.

I'm not saying any company (especially this one) is perfect, but there are just more accurate axes to grind than this because the fact is that ALL of them produced for the US are produced IN the US, and other than ingredients not grown here at all, most everything used is domestic.

So yeah, if you only buy organic, homegrown, locally grown food then I applaud you and you should keep advocating for that. But if not and you're trying to pin down the most egregious offenders, then on this particular example you're shouting at windmills.

[riverdeep]

13. Many American flags are made in China, so what the hell.

Wouldn't be surprised if they start spontaneously bursting into flames.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. It's possible that China makes Oreos etc for the Asian market.

[csziggy]

42. Oreos are made differently for the China market

Kraft Reformulates Oreo, Scores in China
By JULIE JARGON
May 1, 2008

Unlike its iconic American counterpart, the Oreo sold in China is frequently long, thin, four-layered and coated in chocolate. But both kinds of cookies have one important thing in common: They are now best sellers.

The Oreo has long been the top-selling cookie in the U.S. market. But Kraft Foods Inc. had to reinvent the Oreo to make it sell well in the world's most populous nation. While Chinese Oreo sales represent a tiny fraction of Kraft's $37.2 billion in annual revenue, the cookie's journey in China exemplifies the kind of entrepreneurial transformation that Chief Executive Irene Rosenfeld is trying to spread throughout the food giant.

<snip>
So in China in 2006 Kraft remade the Oreo itself, introducing for the first time an Oreo that looked almost nothing like the original. The new Chinese Oreo consisted of four layers of crispy wafer filled with vanilla and chocolate cream, coated in chocolate. Kraft developed a proprietary handling process to ensure that the chocolate product could be shipped across the country, withstanding the cold climate in the north and the hot, humid weather in the south, yet still be ready to melt in the mouth.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB120958152962857053.html

And by the way, the Cadbury products that tested with melamine are only in certain markets:

British candy maker Cadbury pulls chocolates made in China after tests find melamine
By MIN LEE, Associated Press Writer
5:27 PM PDT, September 29, 2008
<snip>
Another official reached through the company's London office said there was no way the contaminated chocolate could find its way into other countries because the Chinese factory only supplies Australia, Taiwan, Nauru, Hong Kong and Christmas Island.

"That factory in Beijing only exports to those markets. It's only a small factory," said the official. He said Chinese production makes up only 0.5 percent of Cadbury's global sales, and the recalled items are "less than that because it's only chocolate."

The recalled products included Cadbury Dark Chocette, Cadbury Eclairs, Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk Hazelnut Chocolate, Cadbury Dairy Milk Cookies Chocolate and Cadbury Hazelnut Praline Chocolate.

In the United States, Hershey's spokesman Kirk Saville said the Cadbury distributor "has never purchased milk, including powdered milk, from China," and that he was "positive" no Hershey's suppliers receive milk products from the country.

<snip>

Manufacturers Kraft and Mars questioned the findings.

"We don't use any milk ingredients from China in any Oreo products, no matter where they are made or sold," said Kraft spokeswoman Claire Regan.

Tod Gimbel, Kraft's director of corporate affairs for the Asia Pacific, said the company "was trying to understand what methodology was used" in Indonesia's testing.

Mars, in a statement on its Web site, called the Indonesian results "completely inconsistent" with test findings from other government and independent labs in Asia and Europe.

"The vastly different results give Mars significant reason to question the validity of the Indonesian laboratory results," the company said.

http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/ats-ap-as-china-tainted-milksep29,1,1847835,full.story

[glinda]

16. Just in time for Halloween

[calico1]

19. On the news report I heard they said that

this affected the Cadbury products that were for sales in foreign countries. I understood that to be not here. But who knows?

[Wilber_Stool]

21. At least durring the

Great Depression we had a manufacturing base waiting to be reborn. Now we don't even have that. We don't make anything for ourselves. If we hit the skids, we'll be there a long time.

[OakCliffDem]

22. So now we can be poisoned by Chinese Oreos. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

24. I don't know how China thinks that they can get away with this sh!t!

Don't the dumb bastids know that Sara Palin is on the other side of the ocean in Alaska, keeping an eye on their red asses 24/7?

[DainBramaged]

25. Read the article carefully before jumping to conclusions

Nabisco claims NEVER to have bought milk or milk products from China, and we all know Indonesia is as anti-American as it gets. (Next time include more than one paragraph just for the effect).

They said they were looking into all possibilities, including counterfeiting.

[Romulox]

28. What conclusions? If Nabisco is selling poisoned cookies, I'd like to stop buying Nabisco stuff.

Telling me "they're only poisoning their ASIAN customers right now!" doesn't make me feel a whole lot better. :shrug:

[DainBramaged]

29. Are you that gullible? Or just misinformed?

READ or actually, never mind, believe EVERYTHING there is to believe from one sentence posted here.

[Romulox]

30. I read it; I take no comfort in the "Nabisco is only poisoning their FOREIGN customers!" line. nt

[DainBramaged]

31. Know what, it's too early to debate 'stoopid', goodbye.

[Romulox]

32. LOL. It's just a LITTLE poison. Don't be so "stoopid" (sic) ! nt

[Vinca]

33. It's no wonder we're all paranoid when it comes to stories like this.

I personally know someone who had 2 of her cats die from tainted cat food made with gluten from China.

[DainBramaged]

34. Give people facts instead of making Nabisco look like the bad guys here

I guess you have nothing better to do this morning.:eyes:

The article title is

Melamine scandal hits candy makers

the Oreo comment is virtually an afterthought.

[progressivebydesign]

37. Those are for chinese markets.. HOWEVER Fig Newtons are made in Mexico.

And those are the ones that are shipped here for us to eat. Mexico and China do not have the health standards in food prep that the US does. I will never buy another Fig Newton again.

[lame54]

38. That's why you should eat these...

Trader Joe's does NOT import from China

They come in other flavors

And they don't taste like they've been in a warehouse for a year

[ddeclue]

40. The choclate wafers are great but ...I just love that creamy melamine center!

:rofl: