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NEWS and REPORTS => World News => Topic started by: THP on Jul 02, 2011, 03:02 PM

Title: Eighty Percent of Vitamin C Is Imported from China. Is it Safe?
Post by: THP on Jul 02, 2011, 03:02 PM
I went to buy a multi-vitamin for my daughter this week and discovered it was virtually impossible to find out where the ingredients were actually made. Labels said soothingly that the vitamins were "Marketed by..." or "Distributed by..." a "natural" or "health" or "natural health" sounding company with an office address in the U.S.It turns out that many vitamins -- including (http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0720/p01s01-woap.html?page=3) 80 percent of Vitamin C sold in the U.S. -- are now (http://www.suite101.com/content/sales-of-imported-vitamin-c-and-vitamin-supplements-a249489) imported from China.More... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dara-orourke/imports-from-china-safe_b_888977.html)