Dec 16, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
Banning plastic items such as fruit stickers, cotton buds, microbeads, straws, supermarket bags and the next small plastic item deemed Public Enemy No. 1 can give the impression of environmental progress, but the bigger gains must come from tackling New Zealand’s more...
Dec 9, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
The food and grocery sector embarked recently on two initiatives that promise benefits far into the future. Health & safety and sustainability have for many years been at the forefront of companies’ thinking. Most can point to work they’ve done and are continuing...
Nov 21, 2019 | Katherine Rich Comments
Consumer NZ has done its annual “testing” of sunscreens and has hit the media claiming many sunscreens don’t measure up to their packaging claims. It’s nonsense. I’ve put “testing” in inverted commas because if the methodology used is the same as in previous years,...
Nov 20, 2019 | Latest News
There are now more than 5150 food products in supermarkets sporting Health Star Rating labels. At 30 September there were 2653 products from FGC-member companies – an increase of 155 in just the three months since June 30. The remaining 2497 are the home brands of...
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
