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Carolyn Young: Retail NZ Chief Executive on the Government cracking down on nangs · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Government back home changing import rules to crack down on nangs.
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  Speaker 1: You can still bring a nitrous oxide for whipping cream
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  Speaker 1: should you need it, but you will need sign off
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  Speaker 1: from the Director General of Health. Large canisters no clear use, well,
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  Speaker 1: they'll be treated as a psychoactive substance. Carolyn Young Retailings
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  Speaker 1: en with me this morning, Carolyn. Good morning Caro, Carolyn.
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  Speaker 1: How will it work if you've got a caterer who
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  Speaker 1: wants to buy this stuff? Do you need an approval
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  Speaker 1: every time you bring it in or do you just
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  Speaker 1: need one off?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I would imagine that some of that detail will
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  Speaker 2: come out shortly, but I would think that you would
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  Speaker 2: probably have to get approval every time you look to
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  Speaker 2: bring it in. And they have indicated that there is
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  Speaker 2: no clear use for the larger canisters, so it'll only
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  Speaker 2: be small canisters that people will be using. And to
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  Speaker 2: be honest, there's not a lot of there's not significant
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  Speaker 2: use of cannisters for whipping cream is used, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not a big seller as such, and so this will
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  Speaker 2: really make sure that it's clear for all retailers and consumers,
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  Speaker 2: and it makes sure that our communities are going to
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  Speaker 2: be safer. So we really applaud the work that Minister
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  Speaker 2: Brown and Minister Mitchell have done to act on this
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  Speaker 2: quite quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So you reckon most of what we're bringing in is
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  Speaker 1: probably for people having a good time or a bad
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  Speaker 1: time and getting behind the behind the wheel of the
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  Speaker 1: car for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you think about the one that the
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  Speaker 2: arrest that they made public a few like a month
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  Speaker 2: or two ago and roasted where there was a retailer
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  Speaker 2: who had three hundred large canisters, I mean, you're just
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  Speaker 2: never going to sell that many to a caterer because
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  Speaker 2: they're firsusly, they're not going to buy They're not going
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  Speaker 2: to buy the gas from a convenience store, They're going
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  Speaker 2: to be buying it from a wholesaler. So really thinking
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  Speaker 2: about horses courses and the Minister Mitchell's are really clear
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  Speaker 2: about the fact that there should be no need for
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  Speaker 2: any small stores to be selling this product.
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  Speaker 1: Carolyn, Good to have you on the show this morning.
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  Speaker 1: As always, Caroen and Young Retailings Chief Executive.
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