[Michael Romanos]

That great drink for children for their perfect health and vitality, Ribena, is just a fraud after all these years and years. How many people has the makers of Ribena killed throught them contracting diabetes and in not getting the vitamin C that so many people need to counter serious diseases, from regularly drinking bottles of the stuff.

If you haven't heard, Ribena claims that its black currant-flavoured drinks contains four times as much vitamin C as does oranges. Well in one of the drinks there is only 1.5 more vitamin C than contained in an orange, almost no vitamin C present in another and another had ABSOLUTELY NONE. Then to cap it off, Ribena contains up to EIGHT TIMES MORE SUGAR per bottle than does a can of Coca Cola. So the upshot of this is that good old coke is healthier than the health drink Ribena. And we all know what a downfall Coca Cola is to all who drink it even in relative moderation.

All this has significance to dog food. Can we believe what the labels say. It does make one turn once again to AAFCO fully approved dog food because all AAFCO fully approved food has been tested and confirmed that the food does contain all the minerals, vitaimins and nutrients that a dog needs on a daily basis. Now one does not even need to read the labels if they know that AAFCO has stamped their approval on the food. That is infinitely better than buying something which may not mean what it says. I am convinced that there must be any number of dog food products that tells a lie and dupes the public and harms our dogs. And it is not just the little companies who could be cheats. Ribena is made by the world's second largest pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline.