I totally agree.

I find it difficult to find country of origin on products for children, on any purchases made online, and on food products. I don’t know where all those ingredients are from that are in say, a loaf of bread, a can of soup, a bag of dog food, cosmetics, etc.

There seem to be so many layers to these problems. I am not disregarding your suggestion. I think it is a good one. But I think it addresses the tip of the iceberg. For years people were screaming ‘buy American!’ What ever happened to that notion? At least if our own companies try to poison us, we have some recourse.

As vast and resourceful as our nation is, I cannot think of many valid reasons to be bringing in all these products and ’sub-products’ other than corporate greed and cheapness on the part of the American public.

UL has a logo that vendors can place on their product, packaging or documentation that confers UL’s safety/quality standard to their product. It’s plain triangle with an offset “UL” inside, and I’d seen it all my life on all sorts of products before I ever knew what it was.

I think any company that would want to be competitive in that market would seriously consider an NGO evaluating their products. If not that, they would be very eager to show just what level of quality control they perform in house before their product is distributed. Of course, consumers that don’t scrutinize before they purchase would likely be impacted, but if you want to bring it back to personal responsibility, that’s a good way to get the ball rolling.

Interesting. How many companies do you think would comply? And would there be product labeling indicating that the product had been tested?

I have no answers, but something does need to be done. I know food products are supposed to be labeled. I think the problem comes in when food supplements that are ingredients are used in American produced products, like glutens in bread, for example. We just need to know more about our products so we can make informed choices.

Wolf has led the fight against free trade with Communist China for years.

These people are idiots, period.

While reading this thread introduction, however, the thought did come to mind about how we, as a nation, are going to demand quality assurance from those products manufactured overseas. We don’t need terrorists. We can just buy foreign-made consumer products. Pet food, make up, human food, toys for our children—–where does it end and how are we going to fix it. Whose responsibility-the government? Corporations? Any ideas?

It is a federal issue.

Unfortunately, even the “federals” distance themselves from the issue. I have sent a number of requests to Mr. Wolf to join the growing number of congressmen signing onto Congressman Schuler’s SAVE ACT. There are more than 100 congressmen from both partys that have co-sponsored this proposed legislation. Frank Wolf is nowhere to be found (just like his stand on anchor babys — non existent.)