milk powder Archive

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    I’m less likely to trust them too - by frog



    No, not Clark and Key this time. In the Business section of the Dominion Post today: More than half of Chinese consumers say they are now less likely to trust New Zealand food products after the melamine contamination scandal, according to a just-released survey. And: Sinogie Consulting chief executive Bruce McLaughlin, who is based in [...] read more
    September 29, 2008 2:02 pm - 2 Comments
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    Knowing where your milk powder comes from - by frog



    Here’s some more from Question Time in the house yesterday.  The government has a longstanding position that Country of Origin Labelling on food is not a food safety issue and so it refuses to protect consumers’ right to know where their food comes from. That assertion that the safety of food has nothing to do [...] read more
    September 24, 2008 9:02 am - 5 Comments
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    Fonterra and MFAT’s role as ambassadors - by frog



    As I’ve said before I think the Sanlu milk scandal is health story rather than a business story or a ‘Brand New Zealand- 100% Pure’ story.  Nonetheless much of the coverage here has been about what dead and ill babies in China means for Fonterra as a company. Has it hurt them/us or not? There’s [...] read more
    September 23, 2008 8:49 am - 4 Comments
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    A sahara desert’s worth of milk powder - by frog



    I just got sent this video of a Sanlu advertising campaign: Sanlu’s September 2008 TV commercial for Western media, with the copy “For the past 15 years we have enough sale volume covered the entire sahara desert”. The ‘volume’ refers to milk powder. Meanwhile Sue Kedgley has been asking some pertinent questions: While we welcome [...] read more
    September 22, 2008 3:50 pm - 6 Comments
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    Fonterra’s baby milk tragedy - by frog



    I wonder how we would feel if a Chinese company operating in New Zealand were found to be responsible for the death one baby and made another 432 sick with kidney damage? Then the Chinese Premier steps in to defend the company, whose subsidiary had known about this for 6 months, and hopes that its [...] read more
    September 15, 2008 11:15 am - 6 Comments
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    We’re selling more butter and buying more oil - by frog



    There are some fascinating statistics in our Overseas Merchandise Trade figures which came out today.  On the face of it things look good with our March 2008 exports up 3.7 percent from our March 2007 exports (from $3.3 billion to $3.4 billion).  However when those exports are broken down by commodity that increase of $100 [...] read more
    April 29, 2008 11:49 am - 16 Comments