In article >, > wrote:

>Steve Pope > wrote:

>> The entire list (so far as I can tell at this stage) of foods
>> and food ingredients to avoid is now the following:

><snip part of list>
>> corn gluten
>> corn gluten meal
>> corn byproducts
>> soy protein
>> soy gluten proteins

>I find it hard to believe that anyone imports any serious
>quantities of either corn or soybean products into the USA.
>Talk about carrying coals to Newcastle . . .

>I suppose someone must be doing it, but it seems odd.
>I'm pretty sure the US is the worlds largest producer
>of both.

Since these are processed food ingredients, there are labor and capital
costs and that tips the economics in favor of Chinese production.
Corn and soybeans as raw commodities are probably not imported into
the U.S.

Steve