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| Thread ID: 77914 | 2007-03-27 11:42:00 | Ribena scandal | feersumendjinn (64) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 536297 | 2007-03-27 23:00:00 | Apparently the Ribena concentrate does have vitamin C in it which raises the question "What was the ready to drink Ribena made of?" | PaulD (232) | ||
| 536298 | 2007-03-28 00:09:00 | Well I have never bought any food or drink product because of "health" benefits. Its all a con. We eat well here in NZ, we have a variety of produce available and therefore don't suffer from nutritional deficiencies. Ditto the legal pushers and their vitamin ads........ I agree with you 100%. Cheers. |
Pato (2463) | ||
| 536299 | 2007-03-28 00:21:00 | why the Commerce Commission (or other government watchdog) does not routinely check food and drink products to see if the listed ingredients/claims are in fact true. So they setup some new division employing a small army to go round and continually test every product sold in NZ? |
pctek (84) | ||
| 536300 | 2007-03-28 00:53:00 | So they setup some new division employing a small army to go round and continually test every product sold in NZ? At least the main ones. Why not? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 536301 | 2007-03-28 01:19:00 | At least the main ones. Why not? $ $ $ $ $ Mind you, if they fined guilty companies the maximum like they deserve they could then put that money towards testing a greater range of products. It's pathetic that GlaxoSmithKline was only fined $217,500 instead of the maximum of just under $3 million. Hopefully the fallout from this scandal will hit them jolly hard in the pocket to make up for it. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 536302 | 2007-03-28 01:23:00 | So its not healthy, Its loaded with more sugar then coke, and it tastes bloody horrible, Whats not to love? Sounds like a winning forula to me, Just add marketing and boomfa, Ribena=Money. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 536303 | 2007-03-28 02:04:00 | re#7 actually vegemite is EXTREMELY high in sodium content (percentage based) and so isn't that good for you as for many of the other health foods watch out for 'fat free' for example my father'n'law was eating WEIGHT WATCHERS museli .....well one would think that was healthy not ?.........NOT ! 25% sugar by weight ! He wasn't even aware of it ...... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 536304 | 2007-03-28 02:52:00 | Bah! Gimme my thick crinkle cut potato chips fried in beef fat. | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 536305 | 2007-03-28 02:57:00 | you would think someone would be actually testing products al the time to ensure they meat safty and legal gidelines. And in an ideal world that would happen. The public service already accounts for about one third of our economy. To do what you suggest would balloon it out further with no productivity. We need more people producing stuff and less watchers on the sideline. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 536306 | 2007-03-28 03:19:00 | I wonder how many millions they made from selling it, I would think that it would be in the 10s of millions, so a 2 hundred thousand fine is nothing. They should have been fined at least a million, and that way they could have been made an example of that companies shouldn't falsly advertise a product. Can people who have purchased ribena in the past now demand a refund for being misled? The fact is, it is a drink being sold by an international drug company, why would anyone buy it anyway. Better to buy a locally produced organic product. |
rogerp (6864) | ||
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