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Thread ID: 93608	2008-09-24 12:08:00	Just curious	qazwsxokmijn (102)	PC World Chat

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707538	2008-09-25 02:21:00	All Fonterra have done is been naive . They were minority investors, trusted their Chinese partners, and its turned out to be a bad investment . You and I could make the same mistake - it happens every day . People go into business as silent partners with friends, family members etc only to later find out the people they trusted are dishonest or incompetent . It seems that this bulking up of milk-powder with additives is a widespread practise in Asia . It is a scandal, a shock, but nothing to do with Fonterra . Yes, in hindsight they should have checked further into the supply chain but how? The Chinese milkpowder factories aren't going to welcome Europeans snooping around and proudly show them the additives . :dogeye: I don't agree . Fonterra own almost 50% of San Lu . Also if you check the back of Tip Top icecream containers (Vanilla) you will see that it is made by San Lu for and also has the Fonterra logo on it, so they are very closely associated with each other, and the SanLu brand was Fonterras way of getting into the chinese market . Therefore they should have been checking what the factory was doing, especially with the dodgy things that have gone on in the past in Chinas food production . They had every oppurtunity to check what was going on, and I believe they even had their own people in China to oversee things . There is a very fine line between naive and stupid I think . I wouldn't trust any food from china, they just don't have the standards we have . The only food NZers should be buying is the stuff made to the SAME standards that our our grwn food is made to . This includes NZ and OZ . I don't think we should even be importing stuff, unless it meets NZ standards	robbyp (2751)
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