Just done my weekly shop.
I bought an item which was labeled, ---Made in Australia from local and imported products.
It was bacon.??????
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Just done my weekly shop.
I bought an item which was labeled, ---Made in Australia from local and imported products.
It was bacon.??????
bacon is cured pork
"local and imported ingredients" means either Australian pork and imported curing stuff or imported pork and Australian curing ingredients
I don't think it means imported bacon and Australian sourced packaging -- but it might
often "local and imported ingredients" is there because the manufacturer doesn't want to change the labels when seasonal variations make it one or the other
I bught sliced ham with the same label, so I wrote to the manufacturer asking which ingredients were from Australia. Didn't receive a reply, so I can only assume that it was the water they pumped into it to bump up the weight.:rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by AlexS
cynic
realist
about the weight I mean
Hi guys
Ive spent a lot of tie looking at the food like products that supermarkets offer up to us,
I can ensure you that any Bacon product that is "packaged" from a supermarket is sourced from over seas ie China
only way to get aussie bacon is to buy on the bone from deli or butcher.
cheers
There was a program on TV (pretty sure it was Landline on ABC) recently about this topic. From memory they said at least 80% of our pork/bacon is imported.
SWMBO got some bacon a day or so ago that she was assured was Australian so you may have to shop around.
Down the road from us in Castlemaine is a big processed meat manufacturer, KR Castlemaine. It is a big local employer.
KR Castlemaine
It is owned by George Weston.
A lot of bacon comes out of that factory, but whether it is actually produced there I cannot be for 100% sure.
There are a lot of piggeries in Oz (remember Paul Keating?) so there must be bacon and ham produced from some of those pigs.
Is it possible that the bacon was made in Australia but packaged elsewhere? :D
more likely the bacon is imported and only packaged in Australia.
or worse case
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the "Australian content" is the stick on label
Yes, there are all sorts of shenanigans going on.
Recently looked at a can of fruit from SPC Ardmona - Australain fruit packed in Thailand!
Imagine the amount of energy consumed by that one can of fruit!
The only way to be sure that pork products come from Australia is to see them cut from the bone.
When I worked at KR in Toowoomba it was owned by a Korean company...?
From memory, a small amount of water is added to packaged ham to keep it from drying out in storage, and after the packet it opened. I only worked there a few months and saw enough shenanigans to completely ban KR products from the family households.
I wont go on, but after that I swore off ever working in a factory environment ever again...
I can understand the produced from local and imported products. I can't see why it's so difficult that they can't produce a food labeling standard that forces companies to put a percentage of Australian product/service to make it easier to compare and buy local product. It the local content is only available as seasonal perhaps the percentage needs to be a yearly average.