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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (23537)	10/6/2007 3:55:23 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217657

Gib, before all the worry about Made in China came up, I had noticed that Sanitarium has Made in China on their peanut butter. I hadn't noticed that and buy Sanitarium because I believe they have a particularly good attitude to health and nutrition and therefore quality control. I wrote to them to ask about aflatoxins and quality control in general because decades ago I learned about aflatoxins being a particular problem with peanut butter. Aflatoxins cause liver cancer. I was concerned about Made in China because unless strictly controlled, I assume people in China will put anything in that they think they can get away with. They claimed their quality control was the same as for Made Anywhere. I didn't take the trouble to demand a personal visit, sighting of their documentation etc because I think they are probably telling the truth. Most such companies know that if their brand is tainted, they go down the gurgler. Ribena was found out to be defrauding the public. guardian.co.uk So we know now not to trust GlaxoSmithKline and to not buy any of their products unless there is a very good reason to do so. People and companies which like to pretend to be doing something when they are not are manifesting a personality defect. I used to feed Ribena decades ago to our young children. I feel like suing them. The reason I bought their product was that I believed the nonsense about Vitamin C and I like actual fruit juice rather than flavoured sugar, which is child abuse. It used to drive me nuts in BP Oil because I found the supply department had specifications wide enough to drive a ship through, and they didn't have "perform or pay" conditions in supply contracts with refiners. So I [as Technical Services Manager responsible for downstream quality control] was suddenly confronted with "Do we accept this crappy product which has to load today or do we run out of petrol in New Zealand?" There was no radioactive isotope control so theoretically, fuel in NZ could have been used as a waste disposal system for the nuclear power industry. There was no benzene control. The quality problem was perhaps a slightly off-spec volatility control, or half an octane number too low or something not bad enough to wreck things, but enough to be really annoying. Harm comes in increments. Mqurice