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Not a single fine or recall has been issued for food with illegal levels of potentially harmful pesticides in at least 5 years, despite dozens of breaches. (www.rnz.co.nz)
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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think the main problem here is that the NAFS is part of MPI. As stated in the article:

[NZFS] should not be within the same organisation that is charged with promoting New Zealand's primary producing export market. It doesn't make any sense to be nested in there.

They could have a synergistic relationship; but if there is a breach...MPI will err on the side of more exports, where NZFS should err on the side of safety and food system integrity.

[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So they've got conflicting priorities - that's just great!

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 5 days ago

Most of the time, probably not. The problem occurs when there is a breach of the standard.

In that situation NZFS should have all of the decision making power, MPI should be required to step back and let evidence guide the decisions.