Posted on 06/14/2007 5:26:44 AM PDT by Lou L
I finally called again & found out that Bare Escentuals minerals all are made & from the USA. None are animal tested. Only the brushes come from china.
Carolyn
That’s because the big agri-corps have been paying off our politicians to prevent food origin labeling laws from getting past.
Thanks for the ping. After reading this post, I deciced to choose a product from my cupboard - JIF Peanut butter - and see where it is made. Having not found a satisfactory answer on the label, I went to their website and, still not finding an answer as to where their manufacturing facilities are located (I may have missed it, but don’t think I did), I sent the following e-mail:
“I would like to know where Smuckers products are manufactured? Where are the factories located which produce - not distribute, but actually produce - Smucker’s®, Jif®, Crisco®, Pillsbury®, Eagle Brand®, R.W. Knudsen Family®, Hungry Jack®, White Lily® and Martha White? Are there manufacturing facilities here in the USA where you can tour and view the manufacturing process and see how each is made? For example, you can tour the Heinz plant in Pittsburgh, Pa. and see how their soups are made and canned.”
If I get an answer, I’ll post it here.
If you do , buy it from Sephora. Its way cheaper then getting from the TV. They want you to buy it monthly & I don’t use that much. So I go to the Sephora site & order the starter kit whenever I need it. Its got more in the kit then the TV one has too. I find they have pretty good deals on all kinds of perfume & make up. ~Pandora~
http://www.sephora.com/brands/bare-escentuals/index.jhtml
Great idea! I would love to see the response.
UGH! I am about to lose my lunch!
Ask the Senator from Nevada, The “Honorable” Mr. Reid, why COOL legislation (Country of Origin Labeling) is being/has been bottled up in the Senate for years.
I believe CPC (Guangzhou) Foods Ltd in China, makes Skippy, for BestFoods.
Check this, from over two years ago:
Two arrested in Sudan I affair
http://english.people.com.cn/200504/12/eng20050412_180550.html
08:20, April 12, 2005
Two senior executives from the Guangzhou Tianyang Food Co Ltd have been detained on suspicion of supplying the carcinogenic additive Sudan I to more than 30 food manufacturers, including Heinz food’s Chinese subsidiary.
The two General Manager Tan Weitang and his assistant Feng Yonghua were taken in by police on Saturday, an official from the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision and Inspection said yesterday.
Since February, up to 88 products in China have been found to contain the banned chemical.
Officials say Feng has admitted his company secretly put food additives containing Sudan I into its chilli oil which has been sold to companies in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan and Jiangsu provinces since 2002.
It is believed the Guangzhou Tianyang Food Co Ltd represents the source of all China’s Sudan I cases.
Tan and Feng are the first and, so far, only people to have been detained over the affair.
All products on the mainland found to have been contaminated with Sudan I have been linked to chilli oil and food additives provided by the Guangzhou Tianyang Food Co Ltd, based in Zengcheng, a suburb of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province in South China.
Heinz Meiweiyuan (Guangzhou) Food Co Ltd, a subsidiary of US food giant Heinz, became the first mainland company to confirm the presence of Sudan I in its food on February 4 this year.
Heinz said it had purchased the contaminated ingredients from the Tianyang Food Co Ltd.
Last month, Heinz Meiweiyuan (Guangzhou) Food Co Ltd destroyed more than 300,450 bottles of chilli sauce and chilli oil that were found to contain the banned colourant.
Other contaminated products included instant noodles produced by a company in the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone that borders the Macao Special Administrative Region and in March various items on the menu at US fast food chain KFC were identified as being unsafe.
Sudan-I is a red dye used for coloring solvents, oils, waxes, petrol and shoe and floor polishes. It cannot safely be used in food, as it can contribute to an increased risk of cancer. The dye was found by the Food Standards Agency of Britain on February 18 in a batch of chilli powder made by UK’s Premier Foods.
Source: China Daily
you are what you eat...
Oh my!
Hi David,
Thanks so much for writing!
Products vary by country, and the product you have mentioned may also be manufactured outside of the US. Unfortunately, we only have North American product information. Here are some facts and the History of Skippy. We are sorry to say we have no more formal documentation to provide you.
Skippy
SKIPPY Peanut Butter - History
DATE EVENT
1890 A St. Louis physician invents peanut butter to provide his patients with an easy-to-digest, high protein food.
1914 Several dozen commercial brands of peanut butter on the market.
1923 Joseph Rosefield perfects a process to prevent oil separation in peanut butter.
1932 First use of Skippy as a trademark for peanut butter, produced by Rosefield Packing Co., Ltd. in Alameda, CA. Skippy Chunk-style peanut butter introduced in the same year.
1933-1944 Rosefield Packing Company obtains trademark registration for Skippy peanut butter in all 48 states and Hawaii.
1935 Wide mouth jar first used for Skippy peanut butter. 1938 The Skippy Hollywood Theater radio program debuts and runs for 11 years.
1940 Production of Skippy peanut butter begins in Minneapolis, MN.
1945 Production of Skippy peanut butter begins in Portsmouth, VA.
1946 Patent issued to Rosefield Packing Company for making peanut butter.
1948 Rosefield obtains a U.S. trademark registration for Skippy peanut butter.
1951 Skippy peanut butter sponsors "You Asked For It" television show and maintains sponsorship for eight years.
1955 The Best Foods, Inc. (predecessor company of Bestfoods) acquires Rosefield Packing Co.
1956 Production of Skippy peanut butter begins at Bestfoods plant in Dallas, TX.
1960 Skippy peanut butter sponsors "Dennis the Menace" television show.
1963 Norman Rockwell created illustrations for Skippy peanut butter.
1973 Skippy Super Chunk peanut butter is introduced.
1977 June 20, 1977 - Production of Skippy peanut butter begins at Little Rock, AR plant.
1979 Annette Funicello represents Skippy peanut butter in television commercials.
1990 Roasted Honey Nut Skippy Creamy and Super Chunk are introduced.
1994 Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy and Super Chunk peanut butter spread introduced. During the same year Olympic Champion speed skater Bonnie Blair is featured in a Skippy peanut butter T.V. commercial and various other marketing and public relations activities.
1996 Skippy brand relaunches a more "peanutty" flavored peanut butter.
1998 Skippy relaunches an easier-to-spread Reduced Fat peanut butter spread. Derek Jeter named spokesperson for Skippy peanut butter.
Peanut Butter Production
-Purchase of raw peanuts - All grown in US
-Peanuts are cleaned, shelled and sorted by the sheller
-After inspection and approval of the US Department of Agriculture, they are shipped to the plant for inspection by Best Foods
-The peanuts are dry oven-roasted, then the red skins are removed and sorted again to remove any that do not meet Skippy standards
-After that, the peanuts are split in half - so that bitter "nibs" can be removed and so each part of the nut can be electronically inspected to sort out any that are damaged or undesirable in any way
-After inspection they are ground to form a "paste", which is blended and churned with a small quantity of other ingredients (such as salt and sweeteners) to make Skippy the distinctive product it is
-Finally the peanut butter is packed in jars, sealed and labeled
Double Milled Basic Process:
- Peanut Roasting
- Skin and Nib Removal
- Peanut Sorting
- First Milling
- Ingredient Addition & Mixing
- Final Milling
- Air Removal
- Cooling
- Filling (Chunk Addition)
Peanut Butter - Standard of Identity
-Finely ground peanuts
-Must contain 90% peanuts
-Must contain a maximum 55% oil
-Must contain a maximum 10% added ingredients (stabilizer, sugar, salt)
-No artificial ingredients
-Additional fortification is prohibited
Product Facts
-Skippy peanut, one of America's favorite brands was first sold in February, 1933.
-Today, almost 90 million jars are sold annually. That's almost five jars every second.
-Most of the peanuts used to make Skippy peanut butter are grown in Georgia, Texas, Florida and Oklahoma.
-The makers of Skippy peanut butter buy peanuts from peanut shellers, who then ship them to the peanut butter plant in railroad hopper cars. Each car holds approximately 190,000 pounds of peanuts (or about the weight of 16 elephants)!
-It takes almost 850 peanuts to make and 18-ounce jar of Skippy peanut butter.
-The average American child will eat 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time he or she graduates from high school.
-Americans eat about three pounds of peanut butter per person each year, totaling about 500 million pounds, enough to cover the floor of the Grand Canyon.
-Peanuts are not a nut. Botanically classified as legumes, peanuts contain properties of both the bean/lentil and tree nuts.
-800 million pounds of Peanut Butter is sold in the USA each year.
That's enough for 10 billion peanut butter sandwiches.
Number of Peanuts in a jar of Skippy (numbers have been rounded):
Size: Number of Peanuts:
6 oz. 285
12 oz. 625
18 oz. 850
28 oz. 1320
40 oz. 1890
64 oz. 3020
We hope this information is helpful!
Your friends at Skippy khw
Skippy non-answer ping.
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