ok. food from china. tainted with melamine. candy, pretzels, etc etc. not going to go on a long rant. but--first everyone should be aware that cheap candy is likely to have ingredients from china, even if it is "made in the USA" -- and that those ingredients may/may not be tainted with god knows what.

(gold foil covered coins DEFINITELY have melamine in them--they were recalled in canada, however, not in the USA -- not sure why, other than the amount is considered minimal

anyway, given that halloween is coming, and the relative level of control i will have over what is gien to my children is low, i emailed a bunch of candy companies to ask where their products and ingredients were made/sourced. i have heard from one so far: wrigleys. kudos to them, they source all of their ingredients for their US and canada distributed products in the USA and canada.

who knows where they get things for their international products, but for now, wrigley's is safe. it appears that smarties and dum dums lollipops are safe too.

'the candyman', our local chocolatier, is looking pretty darn wonderful right now...