frozen fish from woolworths
This is a new line and it is on special until Wednesday next. $7 a packet. The brand is Sealord and it is caught in NZ waters.
Bought one lot , cooked for exactly 7 minutes at 200 degrees in my airfryer...did not turn over or anything.
Came out just so nice. There were 15 small bite size pieces in the packet and I went back to buy another two this morning but onlly one left so bought that one and also purchased 4 ordinary whiting fillets made by the same company...these were not on special and I think from memory they wer $8.45 or thereabouts.
I can recommend this product. p.s. I am not on the payroll of Woolworths and I did not get this free even though I am one of their testers.
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China uses NZ for backdoor food entry to Ozat 1:42 pm on February 21, 2014 | 46 comments
Interest.co.nz has published a disturbing report today on how China is using New Zealand as a back door to export potentially hazardous frozen foods into Australia:
While a great deal is being said about how seriously China takes the safety of imported foodstuffs (vis a vis Fonterra’s woes) it pays scant attention to what it ships around the world.
The issue of Chinese vegetables getting around Australian regulations by coming through New Zealand has been around for a year or so but it seems nothing is being done to police or change it.
It works like this: Vegetables from China are sent to New Zealand where they are mixed with big name brands and sent on to Australia where they are sold to the unsuspecting consumer.
This is made possible by a loophole in our trade agreements with Australia and also that country’s unwillingness to adopt country of origin labeling. While it is not mandatory here either most companies at least pay homage to it…
Australian consumer advocate AUSBUY told interest.co.nz the practice was rife and there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
Lynne Wilkinson said any food product sourced from overseas did not have to be labeled as to where it was from…
Not only are the vegetables being sourced from China they are avoiding chemical residue testing by coming through the back door…
The worst chemical found was procymide in a winter vegetable product made in New Zealand from “local and imported products”…
“Pesticide residues in imported produce is a significant issue [in Australia] as there’s basically no gatekeeper”.
Stories like this makes my blood boil. With Australia’s lax country-of-origin labeling laws, combined with inadequate testing, we have no way of knowing where our food is sourced from or that it is safe.
Not having to comply with strict standards also gives China’s food exporters a cost advantage over local producers, like SPC Ardmona, and is a key reason why they are being driven out of business.
RAdish they are not telling lies as such as they are ALLOWED to import and relabel -- or mix with other product and label as Aussie --- also made in Aust -- means nothing as that onlt mean it was PACKED here
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'Confusing' labels disguise foreign-grown produceAMBy Tony Eastley and James GlendayUpdated
Photo: The high Australian dollar makes it easier for Australian retailers to bring in produce from overseas. (Darius, file photo: www.flickr.com) The peak industry body for vegetable growers says "confusing" labels can hide the fact that frozen foods from New Zealand may actually be grown in China, under conditions that would not be acceptable in Australia.
AUSVEG spokesman Hugh Gurney says produce can leave China as a frozen product, then be packaged or modified in New Zealand, and then sent on to Australia under the labelling 'Made in New Zealand from local and imported ingredients'.
"Often this produce from China is actually grown in conditions which would not be permitted here [in Australia], so we feel this is quite a deceptive practice," he told AM.
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"This would be mainly frozen products like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and carrots. The product would come in a large frozen block that would then be broken down into smaller sections, bagged up into plastic bags, frozen again, and then sent here to Australia.
"It is very confusing for consumers, who feel that they're getting product from New Zealand which actually may have originated in the fields of China."
Mr Gurney says the high Australian dollar makes it easier for Australian retailers to bring in produce from overseas, and consumers deserve clearer labelling laws.
"We'd like to see the country of origin labelling laws increased and improved so that it's much easier for consumers to choose locally grown Australian product, as we have concluded with research that many Australians want to do," he said.
"We want people to be able to make the choice and have the right to choose Australian-grown product whenever they can as easily as possible."
Push for new lawsGreens leader Christine Milne says the party has legislation before a Senate inquiry that would force companies to clearly state where food is grown, processed or manufactured.
"We've had situations, for example, where a packet of frozen vegetables in Australia with a big picture of the north-west coast of Tasmania had six of the seven vegetables in it imported from overseas," she told AM.
"And people would have had no idea about that because of the way labelling currently is."
The Australian Food and Grocery Council says the bill could drive up compliance costs for Australian food manufacturers, which would then make some food products more expensive.
But Senator Milne says that is an exaggeration.
"What we heard in evidence is that companies are very quick to put on all kinds of promotion on their labelling if it suits them," she said.
"I think what we've got here is a range of costs to industry, but labelling is not going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. By far and away, the high Australian dollar is their biggest challenge."
RAdish just letting you know -- as many are unaware --- NZ relabels product they have imported from anywhere -- I used to think -- NZ well that must be good -- but I buy NOTHING from there now because of the relabeling