{"id":132100,"date":"2014-10-24T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T06:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=132100"},"modified":"2014-11-01T14:33:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T09:03:14","slug":"response-from-fonterra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/response-from-fonterra\/","title":{"rendered":"Response From Fonterra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Leon Clement &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_132099\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Leon-Clement-Managing-Director-of-Fonterra-Brands-SL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132099\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132099\" alt=\"Leon Clement, Managing Director of Fonterra Brands SL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Leon-Clement-Managing-Director-of-Fonterra-Brands-SL.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Leon-Clement-Managing-Director-of-Fonterra-Brands-SL.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Leon-Clement-Managing-Director-of-Fonterra-Brands-SL-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-132099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leon Clement, Managing Director of Fonterra Brands SL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/are-we-poisoning-our-children-with-fonterra\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">article that appeared on the Colombo Telegraph<\/span><\/a> website on\u00a020.10.14 contained a number of false and inaccurate statements and we feel it\u2019s important that readers know the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Providing our consumers in Sri Lanka and around the world with safe and high quality dairy products is our number one priority. This means conducting\u00a0close to seven million tests on our milk and products every year to ensure that they meet rigorous international, and local, food safety and quality standards.<\/p>\n<p>The article refers to DCD. No traces of DCD were ever found in any Fonterra\u00a0Brands Sri Lanka products and this has been confirmed by all of our testing and independent tests from international laboratories.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The article also talks about bacteria in a product that could cause botulism. However it fails to mention that this was a false alarm meaning that this was never a food safety risk to anyone, and it\u2019s important to point out that the product in question never even entered Sri Lanka in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We take food safety seriously and as a responsible dairy food company we always put our consumers\u2019 well-being at the heart of everything we do.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">*Leon Clement &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Managing Director, Fonterra Brands Sri Lanka<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":132099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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