NZ: Consumers angry at lack of information about food safety scares
Fairfax media: For Whangarei father Daniel Sterling, the worst bit is not knowing.
His four-year-old son Sam had been sick for a week with a vicious stomach bug unlike any he had had before, and a complete loss of appetite. Then he saw the news headlines: The brand of berries that he uses in Sam’s favourite smoothies are those linked to an outbreak of hepatitis A in this country.
The symptoms, fatigue, vomiting. abdominal pain, fever, loss of appetite… Sam looked like a textbook case. “We first read the article and thought it sounded exactly like what we had had.'”