MBIE considers tweaks to food labelling rules

MBIE considers tweaks to food labelling rules
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Riley Kennedy
Food labelling may get a tweak after New Zealand Pork complained consumers weren't getting the right information about where some processed meat was coming from. Towards the end of the last government, the regulations review select committee – then chaired by National’s Judith Collins – recommended the tweak, despite rejecting some of NZ Pork's concerns.   The pig farmer industry group believed consumers weren’t being given the right information about what country the meat comes from in processed p...

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