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By Laura Walters, Fairfax Media
It is not the media’s job to communicate the message to Chinese consumers that the botulism scare was a false alarm, the Financial Times bureau chief in Beijing says.
Jamil Anderlini told the China Business Summit in Auckland this afternoon that the message the botulism scare was a false alarm had still not filtered down to Chinese consumers.
While the English-language Chinese media stopped negative coverage of the Fonterra botulism scandal soon after the news broke, the message from the Chinese-language media was different, he said.