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Old 07-20-2012, 08:43 AM   #2
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Very interesting! It's so hard to find anything not made in China these days. Kinda scary. Most of our human vitamins and mixes come from China too.

Here is another link where lots of pet foods wouldn't respond. Pet Food Customer Service Test

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Here is some responses I did not like:
Drs. Foster & Smith
"We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you, however it is not possible to provide the country of origin for every ingredient in our dog food."

Eukanuba
"Because the pet food industry is very competitive, we don’t normally share our ingredient sourcing information."

Evangers
"...all is domestic and is sourced in the USA and in fact most of it is local. The only meat that comes from outside of the states is Tripe which comes from New Zealand... Nothing comes from China at all." However response to vitamin mineral country of origin was confusing. "Some of our foods are complete dinners. They are the ones that have the Vitamins and Minerals. We pay a premium to not have anything come from China. Some of the V & M can only be grown in certain parts of the world such as India, Pakistan and China. There is no way around this."


Life's Abundance
In three attempts, Life's Abundance Pet Food would not disclose country of origin of ingredients. "For proprietary reasons, we make it our policy not to disclose the names of our suppliers." Although we never asked for names - only country of origin - this pet food company did not respond to our question.

Royal Canin
"Royal Canin sources their ingredients based upon quality and not country of origin. Because of this, we do not have a list of where each ingredient for each batch came from available to us in customer service."

Science Diet
"...primarily in the United States, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and several European countries." No response to vitamin/mineral follow up question.

Solid Gold
"All of our product ingredients are produced and processed here in the US, with the exception of some of the lamb meal which is imported from New Zealand, potato protein imported from Germany and our Blended Tuna for cats which is processed in Thailand. The only Chinese ingredient we use is the taurine in our dry foods." After vitamin/mineral follow up question "The vitamins and minerals used in the vitamin & minerals premix are from pharmaceutical suppliers based in USA, Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, China (taurine), South Africa, Chile, Finland, and Russia."

Stella and Chewy's
"Stella & Chewy's products are made from all natural, US sourced products." After vitamin/mineral follow up question "Our vitamins and minerals are custom blended by a US company." After second follow up regarding country of origin "Some of them do come from China..."
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