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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (102169)	8/5/2013 4:05:57 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By dvdw© Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219715

Good thing little jack is on goat milk routine, supply plentiful from your neighborhood, the price of which is low given lack of china demand, and so far untainted. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1294389/fonterra-says-has-no-notice-chinese-ban-milk-powder-over-food-scare New Zealand PM John Key accuses Fonterra of delaying botulism alertNew Zealand Prime Minister John Key on Monday accused dairy giant Fonterra of delaying sounding the alarm over products tainted with a potentially fatal bug, as investors sent the company’s shares tumbling. Fonterra revealed on Saturday that a whey product used to make infant formula and sports drinks had been contaminated with bacteria that can cause botulism. The announcement prompted immediate action from China, a major market for New Zealand’s dairy products, which ordered recalls of some potentially-tainted products and demanded affected importers check their sales records. New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. Photo: EPAKey said he was concerned at the impact on farm-reliant New Zealand’s reputation as a supplier of “clean, green” dairy products, particularly in Asia, where its infant formula has long been regarded as gold standard. Key said that tests last year showed there were problems with three batches of whey, adding it was difficult to understand why Fonterra did not act immediately. “I’m a bit staggered that in May of last year, when this whey was produced, that [Fonterra] did show something in its testing, but clearly not something that was of concern to the company because they allowed it to go out,” he told Radio New Zealand. “You would have thought that for a business where its top business is essentially based around consumer confidence, food safety and the quality of its products, that they are risks that you wouldn’t take.” Fonterra has not yet responded to the claim. Key said the government had a team of more than 60 personnel working to contain the fallout from the contamination and would eventually seek a “forensic” examination of how Fonterra had handled the crisis. Chris Galloway, a senior lecturer in public relations at Massey University, said there were concerns Fonterra had not learned the lessons of a 2008 scandal when six children died and more than 300,000 fell ill after one if its part-owned Chinese partners illegally laced milk with the chemical melamine. “The repetition makes it harder for people to accept that this is an isolated incident,” he said. The Fonterra Shareholders’ Fund fell 8.7 per cent at the open on the New Zealand stock exchange as investors had their first chance to react to the scare, later recovering slightly to be down 5.9 per cent at NZ$6.70 around midday. The countries that the contaminated whey was exported to include Australia, China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Vietnam. State media reported late Sunday that one of three Chinese companies that used the potentially tainted material, baby formula firm Dumex, has been ordered to “track down its sales records”. The other two companies ordered to stop selling products containing questionable ingredients were Hangzhou Wahaha and Coca-Cola’s Chinese subsidiary. Wahaha said that it had used the Fonterra ingredients in soft drinks and had not detected any bacteria. Coca-Cola said in a statement it had used 25kg of the affected powder for its Minute Maid drinks, but the “super high temperature” used in production meant it would be safe to consume. The firm added that it was nevertheless recalling the affected products. There are reports that Russia has recalled Fonterra products and advised customers not to buy them. Singapore has also recalled some Fonterra-linked baby milk products, saying it was a precautionary move. Fonterra said there had been no reports of illness linked to consumption of the tainted product, which contains the bacteria Clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism, an infection that can lead to paralysis and death. The company has blamed the contamination on a dirty pipe at a North Island processing plant. The New Zealand Infant Formula Exporters Association said none of the products made by its members were affected but it had been caught in a global backlash due to the poor quality of information being released by Fonterra. “There wasn’t full and frank disclosure right at the beginning and this has led to a lot of rumours spreading in the marketplace, which is what we’re seeking to counter now,” spokesman Chris Claridge told TVNZ. New Zealand is the world’s largest dairy exporter and the NZ$10.4 billion (US$8.1 billion) sector accounts for about 25 per cent of its exports. Fonterra accounted for 89 per cent of New Zealand’s milk production in 2011, collecting 15.4 billion litres, according to the company’s website.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (102169)	8/5/2013 6:46:37 AM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By George Statham Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219715

http://armstrongeconomics.com/2013/08/04/the-iron-curtain-starting-to-close-now-step/ The Iron Curtain Starting to Close – Now STEP Obama wants all Americans to now report voluntarily to the government regarding any foreign travel. The program is currently voluntary, but the word on the Hill is there are those who are suggesting this should be mandatory to protect Americans of course. The program is called STEP “Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.” Today, most Americans are willfully blind. They refuse to connect the dots and think the government would never do anything really to harm the people. This is not about harming or protecting anyone. Look at Benghazi. They asked for help and it was not sent in for political reasons. Then there is the NSA seizing all our phone records, the post office photographing everything mailed, and the IRS targeting people for political reasons and that is just the surface. With all this surveillance we must ask – WHY were they unable to stop two kids and the Boston Bombings when Russia warned them about them? Yet people are willing to surrender everything that made America worthwhile to be safe when these people are hunting money not terrorists. The new STEP program is to track people and where they are going for money. I was personally returning from London over 4th of July. I changed the ticket at the last minute from JFK New York to Philadelphia. When I landed, there were two IRS Agents waiting for me. They wanted to know why I changed my ticket because they had a sting operation in NYC looking for American living overseas not paying taxes but return to visit family. Congress now wants it so anyone who resigns their citizenship can never return even for a funeral because they see everyone simply as property of the state to be taxes. We are no longer individual endowed with rights from God – but from Congress. When you look at every law that is being passed from confiscating the assets of any foreign bank or broker who does not report on what they are doing with an American, Barbara Boxer’s Highway Bill that allows the revocation of your passport if the government even “thinks” you owe it $50,000 in taxes, Lindsey Graham’s championing the indefinite detention of American citizens without charges, trial, or lawyers, civil unrest military exercises on cities, Homeland Security buying 2700 tanks and 1.6 million hollow-point bullets designed to kill on impact that are illegal in war, yet neither the press nor the majority see anything wrong here nor do they see a pattern. It is very scary indeed.