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I agree with you on chinese products.
I remember last year´s scandal concerning mattel toys dye and the risk they had on children´s health.End of 2008 we had the melamin scandal.
The problem is that they dont put "made in china" on the products of multinational companies such as nestle, unilever, ....etc etc
So in order to track down the product one can look at the barcode, the first 3 digits of the barcode is the country code wherein the product was made.
Sample all barcodes that start with 690.691.692 until 695 are all MADE IN CHINA.
471 is Made in Taiwan
00 ~ 13 USA & CANADA
30 ~ 37 FRANCE
40 ~ 44 GERMANY
50 ~ UK
76 ~ Switzerland and Lienchtenstein
628 ~ Saudi-Arabien
629 ~ United Arab Emirates
740 ~ 745 - Central America
All 480 Codes are Made in the Philippines.
869 Turkey
Turkish products (cloths, kitchenware) We buy in france are quite good.
Just found this.....
Does the barcode number indicate the country of origin of a product?
"No it doesn´t. The 3-digit prefix code indicates which numbering organization has allocated the bank of numbers to the company. For example, a company may have it´s headquarters in South Africa. The EAN organization in South Africa has the code "600", but all the products of the company may be manufactured in England. The English-made products would still have the "600" prefix code. The prefix code is a way to have 70-plus EAN member organizations issuing numbers without having to worry about duplicate numbers........
GS1 Prefixes do not provide identification of country of origin for a given product. They simply provide number capacity to different countries for assignment from that location to companies who apply. Those companies in turn may manufacture products anywhere in the world. "
In addition, there is the problem of a lot of deception regarding country of origin labeling. For instance in the USA there is a label stating Made in USA, when in fact it could have been actually manufactured in a US territory or other entity and only had the minimal finishing touches applied in the US. For example Hand Knit does not really mean hand knit, the item could have been mostly machine knitted and finished by hand, thus earning the "hand knit" label.
With the pet food scandal, there was NO WAY to know any of the ingredients in the pet food were from China, without extensive research being done. It was only when a lot of pets started dying, and independent research was done, it was exposed that some ingredients were from China.
My partial solution is to buy as local as possible.
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.. does your word has more validity than mines? 
