NZGIB Educates Press on Velvet QC

NZGIB Educates Press on Velvet QC

WELLINGTON, New Zealand--The New Zealand Game Industry Board (NZGIB),the marketing and education division of the New Zealand deer industry, hosted aneducational press trip to New Zealand this fall as part of its campaign toeducate the industry and consumers about velvet antler.

Guests included David Seckman, executive director of the National NutritionalFoods Association (NNFA); Heather Granato, editor at Virgo Publishing; andfreelance journalist Margaret Littman. The group visited deer farms andprocessing plants, as well as a scientific presentation at AgResearch by someresearchers studying velvet antler in a number of clinical trials.

For more information about New Zealand velvet antler, visit  www.nzgib.org.nz.