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"DCD Affair"  Chinese authorities have launched an investigation in three Chinese cities spelling out they will “seal and destroy” any dairy products which  contain residues of dicyandiamide (DCD). The investigation comes as China’s quality watchdog issues a “Please Explain” to its NZ counterparts requesting a “detailed risk assessment report” on NZ dairy products after  the “potentially harmful” chemical residue was found …

literacy narrative essay "DCD Affair"  Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings has torn strips off Labour agriculture spokesman Damien O’Connor for, he says, endangering the whole of the New Zealand dairy industry with “drastic” allegations relating to traces of a benign chemical, DCD, found in some powdered milk. O’Connor issued a press statement alleging a cover-up of the DCD findings in …

"DCD Affair"  Fonterra Shareholders Fund units took a small, immediate knock as trading opened on the NZX this morning after a weekend in which international media latched onto the news that small traces of a nitrate inhibitor had been found in some Fonterra milk powder. FSF units dropped 0.41 percent, or 3 cents, to $7.20 at the open of NZX …

"DCD Affair"  ANZ’s Morning Brief  highlights a PR assault is now required to reassure NZ’s trading partners that the chemical DCD poses no health risks. narrative essay “Dairy accounts for around one third of NZ’s exports,” says the ANZ brief. “It is somewhat alarming, therefore, that traces of dicyandiamide, or DCD, have been found in NZ milk and milk powder, …