This reminds me of the Ribena debacle, where a bunch of school kids stumbled onto the fact Ribena were lying massively about the amount of vitamin C in their product.

Also, why are we importing sand from China? We have sand at home.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzM
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    2 days ago

    McAllister said this led to NZ authorities alerting Australian regulators, who compelled the Brisbane lab - which had been bound by client confidentiality - to share the positive asbestos tests.

    Wait, the lab found there was asbestos in a common children’s product, but they didn’t tell authorities because they had a contract to hide a major public health issue?

    Also, why are we importing sand from China? We have sand at home.

    The same reasons as always. Cheap labour and economy of scale.