With food products available from all over the world, it might be important to keep a watchful eye on what you are buying......especially if what you are buying is not home grown here in America. Many products and their packaging don't reflect where they are made, but rather they indicate where the distributor is located. It's important to read the bar code to track the product's origin.
In fact there are some countries that deliberately do not say they are the source of a product because they know consumer preference would be otherwise. However a bar code is the sure tell sign of the origin of anything and everything you put in your food basket.
If the first three (3) digits of the bar code are:
690-692...................the product is made in China
00-09.......................the product is made in the USA and Canada
30-37.......................the product is made in France
40-44.......................the product is made in Germany
47.............................the product is made in Taiwan
49.............................the product is made in Japan
50.............................the product is made in the UK
Just refer to these numbers when examining your packages and you can be certain of what you are buying.
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