China Wall Board + Other Products..

The PRC will put in whatever crap they think they can get away with. Since the salaries of government officials are incredibly low, the system runs on bribery, with the expected results.

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It's the typical PRC manufacturing attitude. Many over there think we are stupid and don't know what they are doing. Perhaps they are right.

Don't forget the frozen berry saga from a couple of years ago where China was caught fertilising their fruit trees with human poop and than selling it on to us as frozen produce.

We are he same but it has become a bit of  a game of “hide chinese shit” in everything you can buy. Leggos used to sell to tomato paste using aussie toms, then they sneakily swapped to chinese tomatoes. I was disgusted because at the time about 5-7 years ago there was no alternative in my shop than chimese tomato paste. They have since changed back to aussie toms but it just goes to show that if you want to avoid chinese food you have to look at every label. I have not bought any leggos product since. a small protest, but grimly satisfying. 

The other nefarious term is made in …. using products from fark knows where. i avoid those too. It’s fatiguing to do this every time knowing some sly company can just slip in what ever they want into what you buy. they’ll claim they can’t get certain things in Australia at certain times and i’ll claim that’s bs and to try harder. 

Watch out for stuff labelled "Product of New Zealand" it's usually bulk shipped from places like China packaged in NZ as a "product" and then shipped to Oz!
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Kelloggs Corn Flakes..... For a short time, a while ago now the package said made in China.. That soon changed to ..made with ingredients from other sources.. When I called to ask about that, they stonewalled with the repeated line ..made in North America... which translated to ..made in Mexico from China materials...

So.. We only buy store brand corn flakes which may or may not be any different.. But they sure as hell are not Kelloggs..

Made in NZ is also often code for Made in China, thanks to NZs practically non-existant country of origin regulations. Many PRC companies use NZ as a backdoor to get their products into Australia without disclosing where it came from.

Edit: just realised you said this same thing later on.

Whilst the idea sounds great I fear it is so limited and so targeted that it is likely to only hurt those small businesses that compete with the multinational restaurant chains.


If the Government were truly serious they would implement strong regulations across the board for all food and include the history of the supply chain from where the ingredients were grown, where they were processed, where they were packaged etc.

But I can't imagine any government doing that.

"I was caught shoplifting in Tehran", he said, offhandedly.

Right bushdoc2, its WW3 with taglines!



I tried to follow the science, but it was simply not there. Then I followed the money. that's where I found the science.

I was looking at a Snickers in woolies a few days ago..."Made in China"