Supermarket shopping

[fenderbelly]

Just done my weekly shop.
I bought an item which was labeled, ---Made in Australia from local and imported products.

It was bacon.??????

[ian]

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

[Sawdust Maker]

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

[AlexS]

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.

[Sawdust Maker]

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.

cynic

[ian]

realist



about the weight I mean

[boldor]

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

[Chesand]

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.

[Big Shed]

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.

[rrich]

Is it possible that the bacon was made in Australia but packaged elsewhere?

[ian]

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

[Big Shed]

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!

[AlexS]

The only way to be sure that pork products come from Australia is to see them cut from the bone.

[q9]

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...

[Sir Stinkalot]

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.