Demand Origin Labels for Food Ingredients

Posted on July 25, 2007
by Maureen Keene

Many common ingredients in packaged foods and beverages are coming from China and other countries and entering our food supply without inspection and without consumers’ knowledge. Tell your representatives in Congress to pass a law requiring country of origin labeling for ingredients from outside the U.S. on all packaged foods.

Also, please send an email to the companies you buy products from and urge them to include the country of origin for each ingredient that comes from outside of the U.S. on their labels.

We have a responsibility as consumers to make informed choices for ourselves and our families, but we cannot do that if food companies refuse to provide such vital information as where an ingredient comes from.

Amy’s Kitchen, Inc.
Annie’s, Inc.
Birds Eye Foods, Inc.
Cadbury Schweppes plc (snail mail, phone, or links to individual business units)
Campbell Soup Company
Coca-Cola Company
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
Dannon Company
Dean Foods Company
Del Monte Foods Company
Dole Food Company, Inc.
Frito-Lay, Inc.
General Mills, Inc.
H.J. Heinz Company
Hain Celestial Group, Inc.
Hershey Company
J. M. Smucker Company
Kellogg Company
Kraft Foods Inc.
Mars, Inc. (snail mail, phone, or links to individual business units)
McCormick & Company, Inc.
Nestlé
Newman’s Own, Inc.
Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
Ore-Ida Foods, Inc.
PepsiCo, Inc.
Pinnacle Foods Group, Inc.
Sara Lee Corporation
Tree Top, Inc.
Tropicana Products, Inc.
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Unilever
Welch Foods, Inc.