18 Feb 2019

The Panel with Dellwyn Stuart and Chris Wikaira (Part 2)

From The Panel, 4:05 pm on 18 February 2019

What NZ product do you really rate? A new twist on an exisiting marketing straegy. The Buy NZ Made organisation is now rolling out New Zealand Grown stickers for meat and produce grown locally. The labels are a way for businesses to make sure they're complying with the Country of Origin Food Act which was introduced in December. Disturbing figures released last week by the World Health Organisation shows a big increase in the number of reported measels cases. In Europe, the number of cases went from 5,273 in 2016 , to 25,863 in 2017 to 82,596 in 2018. Social media is proving to be a vehicle for the spread of misinformation about immunisation against preventable diseases. Vaccinologist Helen Petousis-Harris discusses the communication problem. Last week we did a piece about calls for CPR to be taught in schools. It got us thinking about recent calls for Mindfulness to be taught in schools...