Prebble: Cooking Wine Crackdown Crazy

ACT New Zealand Leader Richard Prebble today criticised the Liquor Licensing Authority's decision to crack down on supermarkets selling rice-based cooking wine due to its high alcohol content, describing it as an over-zealous application of the law.

"The Authority's enforcement makes a mockery of the law. It was never intended to be used in this way. How many cases have we heard of underage drinkers being caught with a bottle of cooking wine in their hands? Absolutely none, it's ridiculous," Mr Prebble said.

"While the Authority's diligence is to be commended, its efforts would be better focused elsewhere. It's time for it to apply some common sense to its decision-making, and stop suffocating small business with red tape," Mr Prebble said.

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