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
n
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.
I don't think I'd even trust that measure.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexS
In roundish numbers, 30% of Australian consumed pig meat is imported, while around 10% of domestic production is exported.
From Australian Pork -- Import, Export & Domestic Production Report, January 2016 Market Reporting | Australian Pork
12 month totals to January 2016
Domestic pig meat production -- 372,508 (tonnes)
Exports -- 33,380 (tonnes)
Imports -- 170,270 (tones)
Data Source: ABS
As I understand it, Ian, importing pork (possibly other meat too) on the bone is prohibited by quarantine laws.
Please let me re-phrase the question.Quote:
Originally Posted by rrich
Is it possible that the bacon was "created" in Australia and packaged elsewhere? :D
(Use your imagination?) :B
Slightly off topic but close to the idea.
I have a Husqvarna ride on mower, made in Sweden, however, it is sent to the USA unassembled, assembled in the USA and then shipped to Oz.
Have asked for an explanation but the stock answer seems to be "that's just what they do".
but it does allow Husqvarna to claim "Made in USA" for mowers sold in the US.
For ustralia, US "made" mowers have English instructions and labels
Isn't that just what the swine "DO"? LOL :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob38S
There have been adds on TV over the last week or so saying that from July the percentage of Australian product will be on the labels of food.
Several years ago, some Toyota pickup trucks had final assembly in the Port of Tacoma, Washington. The assembly consisted of bolting the beds to the chassis, on an outdoor assembly line. Both the chassis and the beds were delivered on the same RO-RO ship. The explanation I heard was that import tariffs were lower for parts than for fully assembled. The trucks were badged "Tacoma," out of respect for the "manufacturing" location.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob38S
Years later, production moved to (I think) Fresno, California. But they kept the "Tacoma" badge.:rolleyes:
Cheers,
Joe
The loopholes in labeling have been pretty disgraceful by any stretch of the imagination. There are some changes proposed for 1 July this year:
Attachment 378141
This will be for imported goods:
Attachment 378142
You can find further details here:
Country of Origin Labelling
Regards
Paul
last week on one of the current affair programs there was an item about bacon.
Primarily it was about the amount of water pumped into bacon.
The items shown were for pre packed bacon, however I have no reason to believe that the sliced bacon in the deli section is any different.
The rates of water pumped in ranged from 70% down to 54%.
So I can only assume that my original statement (Made in Australia from local and imported products. ) means that
70% was imported bacon and 30% was local water. :oo:. Or it could have been the other way round.:U