Oct 25, 2019 | Media, News
Synlait Milk’s acquisition of Canterbury company Dairyworks is great news for the New Zealand dairy industry, says Katherine Rich. “This is an exciting development. It brings together two innovative companies and reunites a dairy industry dream team of Leon Clement...
Oct 24, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments, Sunscreens
Slip-Slop-Slap was a popular sun-care campaign known by those generations who remember the 1980s. It came with a catchy tune and a cute bird mascot, and the message was so simple that small children could understand it. Years later the word ‘Wrap’ was added, as in...
Oct 24, 2019 | Submissions
Pregnancy warning labels on alcoholic beverages – to Food Standards Australia New Zealand document
Sep 30, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
Working for the food and grocery sector, it’s a privilege to visit companies behind many of the products on our supermarket shelves, to meet the teams and see first-hand their heritage and innovation. Start-up stories are fascinating. From the concrete mixer that...
Sep 23, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
Today we live in a throwaway society. Every day we use stuff that can’t be re-used or recycled, so we throw it away. It’s much different to my grandmother’s generation. She saved everything, even flour bags. What couldn’t be fed to the chooks or burnt on the fire...
Sep 10, 2019 | Best-Before
What’s your opinion on best-before dates? Best-before dates provide good information to consumers and also confidence to manufacturers that their products can be presented and judged appropriately. They tell a consumer that before a certain date the product will be in...
Sep 6, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
Plastic is everywhere. It’s used in almost every industry you can think of – construction, transportation, electronics, healthcare, and agriculture. And when you look down the supermarket aisle you can see how big a part it plays in the food and grocery sector. It’s...
