Labour 'stands with Govt' over Fonterra

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Labour is standing beside the Government in its efforts to restore relations with New Zealand’s important trading partners over the Fonterra botulism scare, leader David Shearer says.


The most pressing issue was to reassure export markets and parents that New Zealand was still a producer of safe food, he said.
Other questions, including about the time it has taken Fonterra to disclose the issue and why the story had kept changing, would have to be delved into in coming days and weeks.
Shearer also wanted to examine the structure of departments, with food safety and biosecurity folded into a large bureaucracy inside the Ministry of Primary Industries.
New Zealanders as a whole were proud of Fonterra, but it needed to be responsible because it represented New Zealand’s branding as a whole, Shearer said.
«It’s not just about milk powder. It actually extends into wider products as well.»
But he did not think Labour would go as far as reviewing the Fonterra model.
With 28 per cent of export earnings coming from dairy, it had been a good income earner.
However, it was also important to diversify to reduce vulnerability and in particular to boost well-paid job-rich manufacturing.
«Manufacturing and hi-tech industries … create the jobs that keep young New Zealanders in this country whereas putting milk powder into containers is not a job-intensive type of industry.
It’s not the sort of industry that creates those high-value well-educated jobs that we are trying to grow here.»
 
Source: Stuff

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