outsourcing question - help please...

I want to find a us-based (or overseas) CANDY designer + manufacturer.

I need to be able to trust that they will not rip-off my idea, while I hire them to help me develop + produce the idea!!

(that's always the risk, of course)

I also need them to be able to do small runs to get things started, etc.

Any ideas out there?

Thanks.

-- TW

PS: The reason I say it'd be better to be a us-based place is, since it has to do with FOOD, it would be better to have it be us-based -- but maybe that notion is incorrect -- I don't know.