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Published on Monday, September 29, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
SAN JOSE - Born in the USA? Made in Mexico? Picked in Peru? Cultivated in Canada?
Supermarket shoppers, now you know.
Starting Tuesday, new federal rules take effect requiring all U.S. supermarkets and large food retailers provide labels telling consumers which country a wide variety of food came from.
Covered by the new rules: ground beef, chicken, pork, veal, steak, lamb, and goat, along with fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, macadamia nuts, pecans and peanuts.
Although there are some loopholes - for instance "processed foods" like bacon aren't covered - consumer groups say the labels will allow shoppers to bypass foods whose countries have poor hygiene records, or to deliberately help American farmers and ranchers.
Retailers can comply with labels on meat packages, twist ties on asparagus, stickers on apples - it doesn't matter. They simply must say where the food came from or face fines up to $1,000
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