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Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation laws
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mellie
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Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation laws
After the recent scare re- Hepatitis A infected frozen Nannas berries, what will our government do to ensure our imported food supply is safe?
Sorry, not good enough, this should never have happened.

Sorry, not good enough, this should never have happened.
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- skippy
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
The mind boggles why a country like us would ever need to import fruits of any kind.
I agree we should be much more stringent on what we import and from where.
I agree we should be much more stringent on what we import and from where.
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mellie
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
Exactly, why should we need to import fruits and veg.skippy wrote:The mind boggles why a country like us would ever need to import fruits of any kind.
I agree we should be much more stringent on what we import and from where.
Our government needs to tighten food standards.
It's disgraceful.
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- Black Orchid
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
I always try to buy Australian produce but with most packaged products we have no idea where it originates, and we should.
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mellie
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
Exactly BO, even our tinned fish ie, tuna are only required to display catchment zones, (ie, area 345)...don't have to say where they are caught.Black Orchid wrote:I always try to buy Australian produce but with most packaged products we have no idea where it originates, and we should.
This is deceptive and misleading.
Since when did we the public become so nonchalant about food standards?
I think it happened so slowly, we just accepted it.
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- boxy
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
Free trade, bitches. It's cheaper 
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mellie
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
boxy wrote:Free trade, bitches. It's cheaper
Just because it's cheaper, doesn't mean we have to stand for it.
If every Australian demanded changes to our food standards this and boycotted foreign produce...we'd be a better nation for it.
Ok, we might have to regress to eating produce only seasonally, but we'd adjust.
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mellie
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
Tell me Boxy, do you fancy devouring produce thats been fertilised with infectious human waste?
Even an animal wont eat where it craps.

Even an animal wont eat where it craps.
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mellie
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
Tell me Boxy, do you fancy devouring produce thats been fertilised with infectious human waste?
Even an animal wont eat where it craps.

Even an animal wont eat where it craps.
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- boxy
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Re: Government needs to tighten food standards &Importation
Lefty scum!mellie wrote:boxy wrote:Free trade, bitches. It's cheaper
Just because it's cheaper, doesn't mean we have to stand for it.
If every Australian demanded changes to our food standards this and boycotted foreign produce...we'd be a better nation for it.
Ok, we might have to regress to eating produce only seasonally, but we'd adjust.
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