HUNDREDS OF EXPLODING FAKE
HEINZ KETCHUP BOTTLES DISCOVERED
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A warehouse in Dover, N.J. (USA) was discovered to have hundreds of
crates purported to be Heinz ketchup, which officials said may have been
repackaged to sell for a profit. Other tenants who rent the space in a
7,000-square-foot warehouse noticed that bottles of ketchup were
exploding. Heinz said fake ketchup bottles were labeled as Heinz's
“Simply Heinz,” its premium brand that uses sugar instead of high
fructose corn syrup, which is found in its traditional version.
A 32 oz.
bottle of “Simply Heinz Ketchup” and a 36 oz. bottle of Heinz Ketchup
each have a suggested retail price of $2.99. Dover Public Safety
Director Richard Rosell told the Star-Ledger newspaper in New Jersey
that the ketchup's sugars, mixed with acid from tomatoes and vinegar,
had fermented in the heat and exploded. Tenants noticed the mess and
city officials and Heinz were eventually contacted.
Jessica
Jackson, a spokeswoman for Heinz North America, said the company “has
not discovered any information that leads us to believe that the
illegally repackaged product is on the market.” “Based on our
preliminary investigation, it appears that the unauthorized operation
purchased traditional Heinz ketchup and then repackaged the product
illegally,” Jackson said in a statement.
“As a company dedicated to food
safety and quality, Heinz will not tolerate illegal repackaging of our
products and we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone
who engages in such illicit behavior,” Jackson said. “As the world's
leading manufacturer of ketchup, Heinz has stringent manufacturing and
packaging practices in place to ensure the safety of consumers. Our
quality assurance systems also ensure traceability to the factories
where Heinz ketchup is manufactured and packaged.”
Officials
discovered the fake ketchup factory after tenants complained about
flies and rotten odors coming from a warehouse in Dover, New Jersey
(USA). They found thousands of plastic bottles labeled Heinz Ketchup,
many of which had exploded after being abandoned in the hot building. It
is said someone bought large containers of regular Heinz Ketchup and
poured it into bottles labeled "Simply Heinz," a higher-priced product.
Needless to say, the warehouse was not the most sanitary of places, and
there's no way to know if anything else was added to the ketchup. This
ketchup counterfeiting operation should make consumers think twice about
what they're putting on their food. In their effort to profit by
deception, counterfeiters threaten all population's health.
WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?
We
are labouring under a deception, we are deceivers who are not just
deceiving ourselves but the world as well. Everyone - all the
baddha-jivas are more or less cheaters. That is our position and we
must be relieved of such misunderstanding, self-deception and
environmental cheating if we are to be placed in our proper position.
... A proper understanding of one’s own self as well as the environment
is proper education. That education must be Vedic. The standard must be
drawn from outside this area of maya - this area of misunderstanding;
the standard must be drawn from the perfect realm through Veda -
revealed Truth. We must accept revealed Truth and bid farewell to
so-called scientific knowledge and other kinds of perceptions that are
all erroneous - based on false experience and false information. ... And
what’s more, we must not only get relief from this misconception, from
misunderstanding the external waves, but we must attain a positive
position - to learn to understand the wave, the vibration of Goloka.
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