Another New Zealand product has been rejected overseas for failing to ‘make the grade’. Yesterday China rejected a consignment of water for having too much nitrite, today we learn a shipment of wine has been stopped by the EC for having too little alcohol. Stuff.co.nz reports that a 1,000 bottle consignment of Bannockburn Riesling, (Otago…
There’s been another ‘unexplained’ death in Auckland. Police are being typically tight-lipped about the details, and have said nothing of the circumstances of the man’s death, but they are questioning residents in Epsom. Explore the Google Street View of the location The “sudden death” was that of an elderly man at a Kipling Avenue…
Yesterday we told you how a brand of NZ water marketed as ‘100% Pure’ failed stringent Chinese quality tests for nitrites, today we’re bringing you another type of Miracle Water – it will be a miracle if you can stomach drinking it. Spare a thought for the people of 100% pure north Canterbury who have…
Chinese officials have rejected a large consignment of mineral water from New Zealand after it failed nitrite tests, with obvious implications for New Zealand’s global brand However, rather than fix the probable root cause of the problem (.i.e. overuse of fertilisers) the solution suggested to the NZ bottled water industry is to “go on a PR offensive“ rather…
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