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From: Richard Wang

Dear Ministry for Primary Industries,

Media statements by Vince Arbuckle have echoed false claims made by the notorious Compass Group against school teachers that their noxious lunches were moldy because their delivery drivers left them at a school rather than because they delivered them moldy. It's not surprising that Compass has a close relationship with NZ Food Safety given the quality of their output, but the failure to conduct any sort of proper investigation prior to making statements in support of David Seymour's poisonous school lunches is suspect.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5806...

1) Please provide all emails/text messages/teams messages/any other electronic text communications between
1a) Arbuckle, or any other employee of New Zealand Food Safety
1b) and David Seymour, or other government minister, or their ministerial office staff
2) Please disclose if any phone calls were made by David Seymour, or other government minister, or their ministerial offices to Arbuckle, or any other employee of NZ Food Safety
between 2025-12-02 00:00 and 2025-12-03 08:00.

Regards,
Richard

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From: Richard Wang

Dear Ministry for Primary Industries,

My apologies- correcting the request from:
between 2025-12-02 00:00 and 2025-12-03 08:00.
to
between 2025-12-01 00:00 and 2025-12-03 08:00.

Cheers
Richard

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Tçna koe Richard,

 

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2025.

 

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6140 | New Zealand
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From: Richard Wang [3][FOI #33113 email]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 December 2025 8:09 am
To: Official Information Act [4][email address]
Subject: Re: Official Information request - Communications regarding

 

Dear Ministry for Primary Industries,

 

My apologies- correcting the request from:

between 2025-12-02 00:00 and 2025-12-03 08:00.

to

between 2025-12-01 00:00 and 2025-12-03 08:00.

 

Cheers

Richard

 

 

 

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