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NZ Free Range Pigs Farmers Deserve CoOL Support
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 2:26 pm | Soil and Health Association
New Zealand pig farmers that are practising humane free-range animal management practices deserve the benefit of Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling (McoOL), and inhumane farmers need further ‘outing’ following SAFE’s expose of intensive pig farming, ... More >>
Picton Fumigators Will Fail Requirements
Thursday, 21 May 2009, 9:09 am | Soil and Health Association
Picton Fumigators Will Again Fail Both Safety and Indian Requirements The log ship Pos Brave currently being loaded at Port Marlborough’s Shakespeare Bay is intended to be fumigated along with log stacks under tarpaulins, using several tonnes ... More >>
Monitoring of Toxic Methyl Bromide Failed
Friday, 15 May 2009, 9:35 am | Soil and Health Association
Methyl bromide fumigation leakage at Picton two weeks ago has shown that the on site monitoring systems employed by Port Marlborough are unable to protect the public, according to the Soil & Health Association of NZ. More >>
Logs From Nelson To Be Fumigated in Picton
Monday, 11 May 2009, 9:58 am | Soil and Health Association
Fumigation company Genera can no longer release large volumes of the highly toxic methyl bromide gas in Nelson, so log exporter Zindia intends shipping logs from there for fumigation in Picton, exploiting the local Marlborough District Council’s conflict ... More >>
Methyl Bromide Fumigation Supported By Council
Thursday, 12 February 2009, 1:21 pm | Soil and Health Association
Methyl Bromide Fumigation Supported By Marlborough District Council Marlborough District Council company Port Marlborough’s stance and supposed tough conditions on methyl bromide fumigation at Picton has been a carefully staged play by those ... More >>
Lobby Groups Welcome Abandonment of GE Trials
Tuesday, 10 February 2009, 9:19 am | Soil and Health Association
Soil & Health and GE Free NZ are celebrating the commitment by Crown Research Institute (CRI) Plant & Food Research to discontinue the genetically engineered (GE) brassica field trial at Lincoln in Canterbury less than 2 years into its 10 ... More >>
Fumigation Threat Rises Again In Picton
Sunday, 1 February 2009, 5:49 pm | Soil and Health Association
Fumigation of logs with the highly toxic gas methyl bromide is intended to resume in a few weeks at Port Marlborough, Picton. On 14 February this year, fumigation with the neuro-toxic and ozone depleting gas is planned for a shipment of logs for ... More >>
Plant & Food Research Needs To Drop GE
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 10:29 am | Soil and Health Association
Plant & Food’s misleading statements and conflicts of interest further show the need for genetic engineering (GE) field trials to be abandoned says the Soil & Health Association of NZ. More >>
NGOs Visit GE Field Trial Site Today
Monday, 12 January 2009, 12:33 pm | Soil and Health Association
Soil & Health and GE Free NZ are calling for the closure of all Plant & Food Research* genetically engineered (GE) field trials. More >>
Country of Origin Labelling Fairness Wanted
Monday, 3 November 2008, 12:15 pm | Soil and Health Association
New Zealand consumers deserve urgent commitment by government agencies to Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling, considering the main excuse by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is no longer valid, according to the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand. More >>
New editor at Organic NZ
Friday, 17 October 2008, 10:56 am | Soil and Health Association
New Zealand's leading organics and sustainable living magazine, Organic NZ, has just appointed Philippa Jamieson as editor, starting with the next issue, out in the news stands late October. Ms Jamieson, a freelance writer and editor, has contributed ... More >>
ERMA’s GE Horse Vaccine Use Must Be Determined
Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 2:12 pm | Soil and Health Association
Soil & Health Association of New Zealand (Est. 1941) Publishers of ORGANIC NZ 8 October 2008 More >>
Protest Against The End Of A GE Free NZ
Tuesday, 7 October 2008, 10:21 am | Soil and Health Association
Today’s 9am ERMA GE hearing in Wellington will begin with a 8-30am protest outside the Terrace Conference Centre, St Johns House, 114 The Terrace. More >>
Aspartame Promotion Again Lacks Independence
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 2:32 pm | Soil and Health Association
A public relations exercise that is currently responding to a 5% drop in sales of products sweetened with the artificial sweetener aspartame is once again misleading the public about aspartame safety, according to the Soil & Health Association of ... More >>
Need For Country of Origin Labelling
Sunday, 31 August 2008, 3:49 pm | Soil and Health Association
(Soil & Health Submission and the Residue Test Results and commentary to Select Health Committee follow below Media Release) More >>
More Endosulfan Residues Found In Food
Friday, 8 August 2008, 10:39 am | Soil and Health Association
Once again the highly controversial pesticide endosulfan hits the news: more residues have been found in tomatoes and capsicums. More >>
Systemic Problems With Environmental Protection
Wednesday, 30 July 2008, 11:04 am | Soil and Health Association
The investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment into the toxin-contaminated site at Mapua, shows a typical example of the cavalier attitude to chemicals, community health and environmental protection by local and central ... More >>
More endosulfan in tomatoes
Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 10:29 am | Soil and Health Association
Independent residue testing commissioned by Pesticide Action Network Aotearoa NZ and the Soil & Health Association has found endosulfan residues in both New Zealand and Australian tomatoes – but this time the residues are much worse in the imported ... More >>
Protect Ozone Layer And Community Health Now
Friday, 27 June 2008, 9:57 am | Soil and Health Association
Following two court decisions within a week, both strongly in favour of limiting the release of ozone destroying gases into the environment, the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand is calling on the Ministry for the Environment(MfE), the Environmental ... More >>
Scion’s GE Trees Damage NZ’s Reputation
Thursday, 5 June 2008, 10:06 am | Soil and Health Association
Scion’s GE Trees Damage NZ’s Reputation On Arbor Day and World Environment Day More >>
