I have been leery of buying China-made anything, but particularly food and drugs because of the revelations in the last couple of years of tainted stuff. When I was looking for aspirin several months ago, I called the 800 numbers on store-brand products and there was no problem with getting the answer to a simple question: Where are these made?
Well my not-so-favorite store 
when asked the same question by the pharmacist to somebody on the other side of the 800 number responded: “We follow the FDA regs and since this is “proprietary” we do not give out that information.”
To me that was a dead giveaway that their store-brand acetominophen may just be from China. I can’t prove it because they aren’t telling.
The country of origin is a company secret, so reader beware…or as they used to say in Rome when people bought from street vendors caveat emptor.
June 7, 2009 at 5:05 am |
So what brands ARE safe?? I never, ever thought about checking out store brands of everyday over-the-counter meds. Disturbing to think of them being made in China, I don’t care for Melamine all that much.
June 7, 2009 at 3:02 pm |
Exactly. I found that most store brands of aspirin come from China. I call on everything that doesn’t say “Made in USA.” If you pay attention, most of the store brands and increasingly some national brands say “Distributed by ….. in Anytown, USA.” I have found that if they use the “distributed by” instead of “made in” they are most often from China. Because our store has a no-China policy, reading the country of origin on all products has become a habit.
July 10, 2009 at 8:22 pm |
I’ve seen products that say “Made in U.S.A. of US & foreign origin” or something to that extent. I think some products can still legally say “Made in USA” but have a small percentage of their product still made outside the US. It’s very deceptive. Do we make much of ANYTHING here anymore??
July 10, 2009 at 8:45 pm |
I hate it that so much is foreign made of unknown origin. My biggest concern, however, is food and drugs because of the countless reports of people dying or getting very sick from toxic substances buried in their food. How about melamine in baby formula? At any rate, I let the businesses know why I don’t buy their store brands, and I hope that enough people will do the same so that they will bring back their manufacturing to the USA.