Dear MEL Topic Readers,
New Zealand dairy firm fined over products using Indian butter
“Made in a country”, “Product of a region”, and “Grown in a place”. These
are some of the food labels about the product origin you may notice on the
store shelves. In general, “Made in” refers to where the product was
manufactured or processed, “Product of” indicates the country where the primary
ingredients are from, and “Grown in” refers to the cultivation location of the
primary ingredients. Then what ingredient do you expect in a butter product produced
and sold by a New Zealand dairy company with a “100% pure New Zealand” label? Recently,
a dairy company in New Zealand was imposed a fine of NZ$420,000 for mislabeling
its dairy products as produced locally in New Zealand despite importing butter
from India.
New Zealand’s dairy industry is so huge that exports over 95% of its
dairy overseas. It is well-regulated and highly regarded. If such falsified statements
have been labeled on NZ’s other dairy products, do we have to discount or
interpret what product labels say? What about the credibility of product labels
like “Raised Cage-Free,” “Organically grown,” or “All-Natural”?
Read the article and learn how food labels can be misleading or inaccurate.
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