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The cat treats I bought
I finally got a reply from Bob Martin who market the treats I bought.
Unlike Whiskas who assured me their food was safe from Chinese products, this is very different: ----- Thank you for your enquiry. We cannot guarantee that all our suppliers use only UK sources and would not like to mislead you by suggesting otherwise. Therefore, unfortunately we cannot give you the assurance you are looking for. Please be assured though that it is a primary business objective and commitment to our consumers for us to ensure that our products are of the highest quality. Once again thank you for taking the time and trouble of contacting Bob Martin. Yours sincerely Sarah Smith Consumer Relations Bob Martin (UK) Ltd -------- I absolutely knew it! Treats are back in the garbage now. Told you so! Read "we cannot say where our ingredients come from to say that they are safe" No, because you got your ingredients from China and are afraid to say so. I just caught you out. Tweed |
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definitely trash, Lee
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... I finally got a reply from Bob Martin who market the treats I bought. Unlike Whiskas who assured me their food was safe from Chinese products, this is very different: ----- Thank you for your enquiry. We cannot guarantee that all our suppliers use only UK sources and would not like to mislead you by suggesting otherwise. Therefore, unfortunately we cannot give you the assurance you are looking for. Please be assured though that it is a primary business objective and commitment to our consumers for us to ensure that our products are of the highest quality. Once again thank you for taking the time and trouble of contacting Bob Martin. Yours sincerely Sarah Smith Consumer Relations Bob Martin (UK) Ltd -------- I absolutely knew it! Treats are back in the garbage now. Told you so! Read "we cannot say where our ingredients come from to say that they are safe" No, because you got your ingredients from China and are afraid to say so. I just caught you out. Tweed |
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:28:28 -0500, Stormmee wrote:
definitely trash, Lee It seems incomprehensible to me that manufacturers of edible products could be so blind as to not realize that some customers actually care about where the ingedients in their product come from. Maybe there are more uncaring customers than I realized, but they must realize that selling potentially contaminated products is a very bad idea. Manufacturers who still use edible ingredients from China are on my "never buy" list. |
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We don't buy our cats treats. They don't like them and Mosey hurkes them
up.Love, Kyla definitely trash, Lee "Christina Websell" ... I finally got a reply from Bob Martin who market the treats I bought. Unlike Whiskas who assured me their food was safe from Chinese products, this is very different: ----- Thank you for your enquiry. We cannot guarantee that all our suppliers use only UK sources and would not like to mislead you by suggesting otherwise. Therefore, unfortunately we cannot give you the assurance you are looking for. Please be assured though that it is a primary business objective and commitment to our consumers for us to ensure that our products are of the highest quality. Once again thank you for taking the time and trouble of contacting Bob Martin. Yours sincerely Sarah Smith Consumer Relations Bob Martin (UK) Ltd -------- I absolutely knew it! Treats are back in the garbage now. Told you so! Read "we cannot say where our ingredients come from to say that they are safe" No, because you got your ingredients from China and are afraid to say so. I just caught you out. Tweed |
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On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:03:02 +0100, Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
Manufacturers who still use edible ingredients from China are on my "never buy" list. The Chinese put the managers of the firm involved up against a wall and shot them. Which is one way of doing quality control. Not the way I'd like to see it done, but it does make a statement about accountability. Meanwhile the director of BP walks out of his job with a pension of millions of pounds per year after killing 11 workers and causing damage nobody will ever be able to measure. And the directors of Union Carbide killed about 16,000 people in the Bhopal disaster, injured half a million, with thousands blinded or totally disabled, and have only received the most trivial punishment for what they did. China is not by a *long* shot the country that most needs boycotting on grounds of corporate irresponsibility. Don't worry, I boycott BP and Union Carbide as well. I also boycott Walmart for the damage they do to local business and their suppliers, McDonalds for various reasons, Best Western for off-shoring their IT department a few years ago, etc. |
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"Stormmee" wrote in message ... definitely trash, Lee "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... I finally got a reply from Bob Martin who market the treats I bought. Unlike Whiskas who assured me their food was safe from Chinese products, this is very different: ----- Thank you for your enquiry. We cannot guarantee that all our suppliers use only UK sources and would not like to mislead you by suggesting otherwise. Therefore, unfortunately we cannot give you the assurance you are looking for. Please be assured though that it is a primary business objective and commitment to our consumers for us to ensure that our products are of the highest quality. Once again thank you for taking the time and trouble of contacting Bob Martin. Yours sincerely Sarah Smith Consumer Relations Bob Martin (UK) Ltd -------- I absolutely knew it! Treats are back in the garbage now. Told you so! Read "we cannot say where our ingredients come from to say that they are safe" No, because you got your ingredients from China and are afraid to say so. I just caught you out. Tweed |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... Tweed, are Liv-A-Littles treats available in the UK? Holly and Duffy absolutely love them. They are freeze-dried treats that should be refrigerated after they are opened. They come in several varieties, and my twosome prefer the chicken variety. I break them up into small pieces. Duffy will come running from anywhere in the house if I just shake the container a little. I think they would fit the criteria you have for kitty treats. You can read about them he http://www.halopets.com/ MaryL |
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"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote:
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... Tweed, are Liv-A-Littles treats available in the UK? Holly and Duffy absolutely love them. They are freeze-dried treats that should be refrigerated after they are opened. They come in several varieties, and my twosome prefer the chicken variety. I break them up into small pieces. Duffy will come running from anywhere in the house if I just shake the container a little. I think they would fit the criteria you have for kitty treats. You can read about them he http://www.halopets.com/ Buster is indifferent to them. Dot goes insane for them. I buy five jars at a time for her from Amazon. |
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:50:19 +0100, Christina Websell wrote:
I finally got a reply from Bob Martin who market the treats I bought. Unlike Whiskas who assured me their food was safe from Chinese products, this is very different: Not having access to the exact wording of the Whiskas assurance, I can't compare the two, but ... I strongly doubt that the assurance means anything other than they don't buy *directly* from Chinese sources. I doubt there is any way they can even know for sure where their suppliers are getting their materials. As far as I know, there is no reasonable way to test for country of origin of all the ingredients in a composite, nor to be certain that what they are told by their top tier suppliers is, in fact, true (if they are told something by a salesman, there is a good chance it isn't). -- Ted Davis ) |
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Ted Davis wrote:
I strongly doubt that the assurance means anything other than they don't buy *directly* from Chinese sources. I doubt there is any way they can even know for sure where their suppliers are getting their materials. As far as I know, there is no reasonable way to test for country of origin of all the ingredients in a composite, nor to be certain that what they are told by their top tier suppliers is, in fact, true (if they are told something by a salesman, there is a good chance it isn't). I agree - there are so many layers of buyers and suppliers that it's nearly impossible to find out where everything came from. What I have read is that, for any given shipment, the origin of the goods being shipped is required on the shipping paperwork. So I guess if you were able to track each ingredient on the package of cat treats, and where the ingredients of each of *those* ingredients came from, and then tracked the ingredients of each of *those* ingredients... and so forth, you would eventually come up with a huge tree of all the manufacturers involved (which might look more like tangled spaghetti ). Combine this with the fact that any manufacturer on that tree might choose one vendor over another for some of the ingredients at any given time, depending on price, availability, or other factors, you might not be able to find out which one was used for the final product in question. (But if you just wanted to know whether China was a *possibility* among all countries where the components were made, I guess you could find that out.) You would definitely have to hire a private detective for this job! Joyce -- What I look forward to, is continued immaturity, followed by death. -- Dave Barry |
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