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Donna Can you send the image of the milk graph again - I seem to have deleted it. Thanks Jacqui

Ok, this is the updated one, with correct referencing throughout and also references at the end. Thanks.

Donna

I'll be sending my references too. Doing that right now.

Hi Jacqui,

This is it. Please read and tell me if I need to fix anything, what time are we meeting at your office. Apologies for any inconvenience. Donna



Donna and Caroline

How much longer do you think you will be before you send your parts over?

Regards Jacqui

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This one is better. Donna

Thanks for that Donna. It could be something we can use, but I think I will wait and see what the final version looks like before i put it in there.

Can you email me your version and I will copy and paste it into the document. I think you may be having trouble opening the file as it is an Office 07 file.

Thanks Jacqui

The file below has a graph of the sales, do you think its relevant ? Donna



Hello Jacqui,

I can download the file but it is only "Read Only" for me. I'm coming to uni to meet you and Caroline today, have we talked about a time?

I'll place my part up on the wiki page because I can't edit the Version 6 Assignment.

Thank you, Donna.

Oops I just realised we already had a version 4 (and 5). So ignore my email and please refer to version 6 below



I hope this isn't too confusing to everyone.

Jacqui

Latest version of our report with content and table of figures included Wendy

Hi!
I'm trying to put everything together. Please send me your part when you are done

Thanks Wendy

Hello Jacqui,
How are you? Once we have received all the parts, we each separately will have recommendations, and have some as a entire group. Everyone would read it and give feedback and then I'll meet with you on Monday afternoon or perhaps Tuesday from 9-5pm [I could re-arrange some classes] to finish the editing of it, and also write conclusion.

The 3 monkeys is a good idea.

Donna

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I have finished my Fonterra and Executive Summary. Wendy, I haven't been successful in obtaining the image as it is a watermark on the page and I can't seem to copy it. We will have to think of something else. I thought the three monkeys, of hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil such as the one below. Maybe we could also watermark it?======

Hi girls,
It's wendy. My part is inserted here. Gotta do more work on it though. Talk to you girls tonight about it

Hello all,
I'm still working on my part of the report, but this is what I have so far, have a look I don't know if it is sufficient or if I need to add or take out, it is long though, is there anything I haven't added. Thanks, Donna

SanLu Fonterra Report Farmer’s, Peddlers, and Suppliers of Melamine Where does milk come from? Cows. Who looks after the cows? Farmers. The life of a dairy farmer, they look after the dairy cattle, milk them and sell the milk to others so they can earn money to survive in the world. That is their duties of everyday life as a kind dairy farmer. Sanlu is owned by Shijiazhuang Dairy Group, which collects 3000tonnes of milk daily from 40,000 farmers. It supplies 18 per cent of China's powdered milk. More than half of China's parents feed their babies with formula. And Sanlu advertises that its powdered milk has to pass "1100 tests". [] The Zhengding Sanjiao Village Collective Milk Farm is typical of the small farms which supplied Sanlu with its milk. Some 16 families keep around 300 cows in brick pens, centred around a common milking shed. Huo Hongxi has been farming for about seven years. He said chemicals had been added to milk for years. "I've been in many milking sheds, and they all did the same. They added all kinds of stuff into milk to meet the quality standards. Their milk was turned down by other companies, but accepted by Sanlu," he said. He never added melamine, he said, but he saw others do it to thicken thin milk. "In the summer we milk the cows three times a day instead of two, but they drink a lot of water then, so the protein content didn't meet company standards," he said. But when melamine was added, it did. Sanlu seldom visited his cows or those of the 15 other farmers, with whom he shares a communal milking shed. Health inspectors were rarely seen. [] After the SanLu tainted milk scandal broke out globally, these farmers who were the providers of SanLu company are at a loss. Their village in Shijiazhuang is scarce, no-one wants their fresh milk, not even if it were free, and they can’t sell it because no one wants to buy it. They still need to milk the dairy cattle because if not; they will suffer from mastitis. Produce is still performed but the milk is being wasted. About 20 farmers in the village sold their dairy cattle, whilst others choose to stay, but they are ambivalent. They have raised their cattle since they were baby yet the large expense accompanying no income; they have very difficult choices to make. SanLu group and officials placed all the responsibilities to the poor dairy farmers and milk collecting stations. The dairy farmers are at the start of the cycle and have no power and do not have the chance to speak at the presentation against a large corporation. They have been blamed and many have beared the consequences. But a local farmer has pointed out that Sanlu was a monopsonist in his village, controlling the only milking station. Farmers were subjected to huge pressure when Sanlu reduced its buying price in response to government calls to reduce food price inflation. Another farmer insists that they lacked the skills to adulterate milk. Others point the finger instead at Sanlu as well, saying that it also developed and controlled all injections into the local dairy herd, yet now complains that the milk contains excessive antibiotics residues (“China’s Dairy Farmers Angered by Accusations”, International Herald Tribune, 4-5 October 2008, p 5; see also “China’s Dairy Farmers Feel The Squeeze”, The Straits Sunday Times, 21 September, p 16). []
 * Lack of inspection **

This is a problem that need to be investigated. Where did the milk become infected? What happened? The formula was found to be tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical believed to have been added by rogue milk suppliers to boost the apparent protein content of milk they had diluted with water. Dairy farmers, milk collectors and dairy company employees in Inner Mongolia, the heart of China's dairy industry, told //The Age// this week that substandard milk had long been routinely accepted by China's two biggest dairy manufacturers Mengniu and Yili, but this had stopped last week after the melamine scandal broke. A Mengniu employee said production was now down because the scandal had forced the plant to stop accepting dodgy milk. "Before, there was no testing as strict as there is now," he said. A milk dealer called Mr Xiao, from Helingeer, the county where Mengniu is based, said that previously it was rare that any of his shipments were rejected. "There was only one standard, the milk was either qualified or not qualified," Mr Xiao said, "But they paid two prices, 1.9 yuan (33 Australian cents) per kilogram (for poorer milk), or 2.6 yuan (for good quality milk)." Another milk collection owner in the dairy area between Inner Mongolia's industrial hub, Baotou, and its capital, Hohhot, grumbled that it was now a lottery whether his milk was accepted. Like many, he professed ignorance of any underhand practices. "The procurement people of the dairy manufacturers were all aware of the problem, but they still take in tainted raw milk. It is either because of the shortage of supply or because they are connected to the agents and accepted bribes," an industry source told the //South China Morning Post//. The vice-governor of Hebei province, where Sanlu is based, Yang Conyong alleged last week that two arrested milk collectors had confessed to adding melamine as early as 2005. Yang said Sanlu knew about it at the time. China's //Caijing//, an investigative magazine that often pushes the boundaries, ignored propaganda directives to restrict itself to official Xinhua news agency reports of the scandal. It attributes the dairy industry's explosive growth to changes pioneered in 1987 by Sanlu's now disgraced chairwoman, Tian Wenhua. Tian split farming and processing into separate operations, encouraging farmers to raise cows, leaving dairy companies free to process and market the milk. Millions of peasants, encouraged by the Government and cheap bank loans, became dairy farmers overnight. Sanlu and the Government later helped farmers set up another link — milk collection centres, or brokers, who could better organise transporting milk to the dairy factories. Expanding the dairy industry was a long-held objective of Beijing because it promised to improve rural incomes and boost health. An influential survey in the 1990s by Beijing Medical University that revealed Japanese teenagers, for a long time shorter than their Chinese peers, were now 1.7 centimetres taller on average. The shocking result was attributed to Japan's greater dairy consumption. Chinese consumption grew from 8.5 kilograms per capita in 2000 to 25 kilograms in 2007, with urban consumption closer to 40 kilograms, still low compared with annual dairy consumption of 300 kilograms in the West. //Caijing// said quality control was not a problem initially because there were so few dairy companies that it was a buyers' market. Companies such as Sanlu could refuse substandard milk because there were no alternative buyers. By 2005, private and state-owned dairy companies had multiplied, and in the fierce scramble for milk supply, quality controls were largely ditched. "Government supervision was practically nonexistent," //Caijing// said. Six of the 22 dairy companies whose infant formula was later found to be melamine-tainted, including Sanlu, had been exempted from regular inspections because they were deemed "famous brands" that could be trusted to ensure quality. One of the Government's first actions after the scandal became public was to abolish the system of exempting famous brands from regular inspections. The state-owned Sanlu group lied about problems with its infant formula for more than eight months, investigators sent by the State Council (China's cabinet) found. The investigators also blamed local government officials in Shijiazhuang, Hebei's capital, for saying nothing to higher authorities. Shijiazhuang officials were formally told on August 2 about the melamine problem, but given that Sanlu chairwoman Tian Wenhua, who along with 17 others has been arrested, is a leading Communist Party official and part of the local government, it is inexplicable that local officials did not know. It was revealed last week that a father whose child fell ill after drinking Sanlu milk powder had begun complaining to Sanlu in February this year. Wang Yuanping sent the company a sample of milk powder to make sure it was real. Fake Sanlu brand powder killed 13 babies in the poor province of Anhui in 2004, in the "big-headed baby" scandal — the story was exposed after hundreds of malnourished babies developed swollen heads. Sanlu confirmed the milk powder was genuine, denied any problems but offered him a refund. Wang posted the story online in May to try to get media interest. After the tainted milk scandal was finally exposed this month, Wang admitted he withdrew his online complaint after 10 days because Sanlu paid him 2500 yuan — in milk powder — and he felt powerless to keep going. [] Things went spiralling out of control and the blame that the duties lie with the milk cow farmers and the suppliers. Suspects of this behaviour were arrested in Shijiazhuang, nad most were dairy cow farmers. Who are the real perpetrators? Why is it not logical for the central government and people of the nation to look for peripheral details? Sanlu also said that the victims ought to go to ask the milk cow farmers for compensation. This is immoral behavior. The legal reasoning is very simple: even if the milk cow farmers really did it, the victims should ask compensation from Sanlu, which could then ask the milk cow farmers for compensation. Consequences: The source of the contamination was raw milk provided to Sanlu from Chinese dairy farmers. Nineteen people have since been detained, with the first two arrests made today, according to //Xinhua//. The Chinese news agency reported that two brothers, with the surname of Geng, had been arrested for selling three tons of contaminated milk each day. The elder Geng supposedly began putting the chemical melamine, a toxic substance used to boost protein levels, into raw milk late last year after their milk had been rejected by Sanlu on several occasions for failing to meet nutritional standards. His younger brother then sold the milk to Sanlu. http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2008/09/15/two-arrests-in-response-to-chinese-milk-scandal.html Why milk?

Hi Attached is thr file from the ICMR site (India). I will bring some extra copies tonight in case you don't have time to print it off.
Thanks for finding this Wendy.

Jacqui

Hello all,
As Jacqui said in her email, Andrea has told us that we should concentrate on the two ethical frameworks: i) Consequences = consequentialism ii) Duties = deontological

I have searched a few sites regarding this, but I'm not too sure how to use the university database to find articles etc.

Consequentialism
 * 1) Utilitarianism
 * 2) Ethical Egoism

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism-rule/

The two links above is from the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/conseque.htm

This one is from a internet encyclopedia.

Deontological
 * 1) Duties, rights, moral rules

Other Frameworks Justice Framework Virtue Ethics
 * 1) Distributive justice
 * 2) Procedural justice
 * 3) Interactional fairness

Stanford : http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/

About.com: http://atheism.about.com/od/ethicalsystems/a/Deontological.htm http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/phil/blfaq_phileth_sys.htm

Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/158162/deontological-ethics

Other links: http://web.missouri.edu/~johnsonrn/deon.html http://webs.wofford.edu/kaycd/ethics/deon.htm

We'll talk more about it tonight and report writing document can be found on the WebCT.

See everyone later.

Donna Ngo.

= = = = =****= Hello All, the team contract and Gant chart needs to be completed and handed to andrea next week. Please take some time out to read over the weekend.

Hi all I have created a spreadsheet with some details that we can use to create our contract. Donna, Caroline and myself are meeting at 11am tomorrow and we can work on this.

Do you want to meet at my office, ground floor east wing ASB - Master of Business and Technology Program.

I will bring a laptop to work off.

See you tomorrow

Jacqui