Notes, appointment details, transcripts of conversations with alcohol manufacturers
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From: Ben Gracewood
Dear Ministry for Regulation,
In this recent RNZ article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572...
It was reported that:
"Seymour said he visited a craft beer business struggling with the requirement to use red in pregnancy warning labels.
"They use two-colour printing, but they can't get the third colour, unless they go to three-colour printing, which increases their costs," he said. "They made the quite reasonable point - you could still have a very effective 'don't drink when pregnant' warning, without putting that cost on them.""
Please provide information you have regarding The Minister's conversation with "a craft beer business", this might include diary entries, meeting notes, email content, phone records. In addition please provide information about conversations with other non-craft-beer alcohol manufacturers regarding warning label requirements.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Gracewood
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details, transcripts of conversations with alcohol manufacturers
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Dear Ministry for Regulation,
In this recent RNZ article:
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It was reported that:
"Seymour said he visited a craft beer business struggling with the
requirement to use red in pregnancy warning labels.
"They use two-colour printing, but they can't get the third colour, unless
they go to three-colour printing, which increases their costs," he said.
"They made the quite reasonable point - you could still have a very
effective 'don't drink when pregnant' warning, without putting that cost
on them.""
Please provide information you have regarding The Minister's conversation
with "a craft beer business", this might include diary entries, meeting
notes, email content, phone records. In addition please provide
information about conversations with other non-craft-beer alcohol
manufacturers regarding warning label requirements.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Gracewood
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From: David Seymour (MIN)
Dear Ben
Your information request was transferred from the Ministry for Regulation
to our office as follows:
Please provide information you have regarding The Minister’s conversation
with “a craft beer business”, this might include diary entries, meeting
notes, email content, phone records. In addition please provide
information about conversations with other non-craft-beer alcohol
manufacturers regarding warning label requirements.
We received your request on Thursday 17 September 2025. We will endeavour
to respond to your request as soon as possible and in any event no later
than Thursday 15 October 2025, being 20 working days after the day your
request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then,
we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Gracewood <[FOI #32284 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 11 September 2025 9:13 AM
To: Hello <[email address]>
Subject: R001262: Official Information request - Notes, appointment
details, transcripts of conversations with alcohol manufacturers
Dear Ministry for Regulation,
In this recent RNZ article:
[2]https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlo...
It was reported that:
"Seymour said he visited a craft beer business struggling with the
requirement to use red in pregnancy warning labels.
"They use two-colour printing, but they can't get the third colour, unless
they go to three-colour printing, which increases their costs," he said.
"They made the quite reasonable point - you could still have a very
effective 'don't drink when pregnant' warning, without putting that cost
on them.""
Please provide information you have regarding The Minister's conversation
with "a craft beer business", this might include diary entries, meeting
notes, email content, phone records. In addition please provide
information about conversations with other non-craft-beer alcohol
manufacturers regarding warning label requirements.
Yours faithfully,
Ben Gracewood
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