Re-posted from general
Further to the problems of the frozen berries that caused sickness plus bad tuna
We have been buying berries form Aldi and although they were labelled as from China the Aldi web site states that Aldi have their very own stringent testing of all products that they sell.
After some email communications between us Aldi stated that they use a international standards association to verify the quality, but on investigating that particular group it reveals that they only lay down the acceptable standards but do not do any testing of products
They rely on the "honesty" of the suppliers to conform to the standards given
Australia has a minimal or mostly non-existent testing procedure for food coming into the country, remember regardless of our huge public service they are 99% seat warmers so they don't actually do anything
Therefore food sold in Aldi is not tested by anyone and as some of the food comes from countries where the social and legal standards are non-existent we could be eating anything
This post is directed against Aldi as I have been communicating with them and we buy most of our groceries from them, but as so much of our food is now being imported with absolutely no control from the government or the bureaucrats who are being paid to look after us there is not reason to believe that Aldi are the only ones who are at fault.
There is no reason to believe that food from Woollies or Coles do not suffer the same problems
Today's paper has the following
Maggots, fingernails, metal found in Aldi-sold foods
MAGGOTS and other foreign, non-edible objects are being discovered in food bought at Aldi stores in Melbourne.
After a report last week that a maggot was found in a jar of tomato paste bought from Aldi, customers are now claiming to have found "foreign objects and creatures" in other foods. Fairfax Media reports one woman found "five live maggots" in a box of Mozart Chocolate she purchased from the cut-price supermarket around Christmas last year.
Another said they found "what appeared to be the leg of a starfish" in a tin of Ocean Rise smoked mussels.
In October, Tania Ewing told Fairfax her daughter "found a fingernail" in a tub of salted caramel ice cream.
Yet another customer said she found a "piece of metal" in a jar of Aldi-bought peanut butter
