New Zealand Food Safety Authority Archive

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  Labour and National vote down consumers’ right to know

  
  
  
  The Southland Times has a powerful editorial on Labour and National’s collaboration to reject the 39,000-signature petition supported by the Green Party calling for country of origin labelling on food. It notes Labour and National’s contention that we have lots of choice is all fair and true if the you are looking for the sort of [...] read more
  September 30, 2008 8:26 pm - No Comments
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  NZ’s melamine contamination

  
  
  
  Poisonous food and dying babies is strictly a ‘far away in China’ sort of thing, even if it happens to be large New Zealand company embroiled in the scandal?  Right? We can look sadly on and shake our heads despondently at Chinese officials and businessmen who didn’t respond fast enough or allow the public to [...] read more
  September 25, 2008 3:19 pm - No Comments
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  Mandatory country of origin labelling

  
  
  
  Tomorrow I will present my 37 thousand signature petition calling for mandatory country of origin labelling of all fresh and single component food to the Health Select Committee. It’s hard to believe that both the Labour and National parties oppose something as basic as our right to know where our food comes from. We have country [...] read more
  July 29, 2008 3:20 pm - 40 Comments
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  Healthy chickens could reduce campylobacter

  
  
  
  American disease scientists are warning that bouts of food poisoning can cause serious health risks months or even years after people think they have recovered from the initial illness. E coli for instance has been linked, years after a patient has recovered from it, to hospitalisation as a result of high blood pressure, colon [...] read more
  January 24, 2008 1:58 pm - 12 Comments