TASK DEFINITION: You are given a review of Amazon's food products. Your task is to divide them into two classes: negative or positive, depending on the content of the review.
PROBLEM: I used to buy these as healthy snacks at my office cafeteria and consider it better than a bag of potato chips. These taste very crunchy and tasty. Given the kind of unethical food stories we read about China - we need to see some kind of assurance and facts on the processes that the manufacturer is following to make these. You just cannot import food stuff and sell in the US as gourmet snack food - there needs to be data backing this. Few example of Chinese food (yuk ...): (1) Melamine(kind of platic) in baby food and milk (so wide spread that 80% of milk in China contained this plastic in 2008) (2) Honey contaminated with ciprofloxacin (antibiotic) - because of which it was banned in the US (3) Soy Sauce made from Human hair (not joking google it if you want) (4) Spurious drugs exported to African countries. Need some good facts and quality controls from the Manufacturers that the chinese producers are complying with some good quality controls.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: We were shocked to find out that Dogswell a company we have been buying our dog treats for last several years have started outsourcing these dog treats to China. This is very disappointing considering 4-5 years ago when many pets in the US died due to food poisoning resulted from pet food packed in China. It is very surprising why this product got around 4/5 rating. I am assuming either many buyers, like us, did not read where this is manufactured as the text "Made in China" is written in small alphabets and hidden in other text behind the cover OR most of these reviews in 2010 and 2011 look suspiciously 'fixed'...notice how many of them got 1 out of 1 likes. We have stopped feeding our dog this food out of legitimate concern. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 2012: Just to update that our dog died recently after diagnosed suffering from Hemolytic Anemia and Diabetes. We fed our dog these treats for number of years and now wonder just how much they contributed to her illness considering these treats are NOT made in USA but China.

SOLUTION: Negative

PROBLEM: My husband and I both really like the popchips. They are a great substitute for regular potato chips and we both find them very satisfying.

SOLUTION:
Positive