The New Zealand government will conduct a top level inquiry into how Fonterra’s whey product, which was potentially contaminated with botulism causing bacteria, was distributed globally.
Infant formula company Nutricia issued a wider recall of two of its products late Monday, after new information from the country's leading multinational dairy company Fonterra.
Fonterra came under fire from the New Zealand government, farmers and financial regulators for its handling of a food contamination scare that has triggered product recalls and spooked parents from China to Saudi Arabia.
For a country that markets itself to the world with the slogan "100% Pure", New Zealand's environmental credentials are not as impeccable as many would think.
The Fonterra Co-operative Group is one of New Zealand's largest milk processors and dairy exporters, producing more than 2 million metric tons of dairy products, specialty ingredients and consumer goods a year.
The New Zealand dollar skidded to a one-year low on Monday after New Zealand's major dairy exporter, Fonterra, said at the weekend it had found bacteria in some of its products that could cause botulism.
Fonterra, the world's leading exporter of dairy products, apologised on Monday for a milk powder contamination scare in China that risks tainting New Zealand's reputation for food safety.
FSANZ is aware of the announcement by Fonterra regarding several batches of its whey protein concentrate possibly contaminated with Clostridium botulinum and subsequent recalls of two Nutricia products as a precautionary measure.
On August 1, 2013, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) published a Gazette Notice with Amendment No. 142 to the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.
Units in the Fonterra Shareholders Fund plunged 8.7 percent on Monday after the New Zealand dairy giant was hit by the discovery of a bacteria that can cause botulism found in some of its products.
Three people who have pleaded guilty to selling slimming food products containing undeclared Sibutramine - a drug not permitted in food, have been convicted of various breaches of the Food Act 2003 in the Downing Centre Local Court.
Fonterra has lifted its Forecast Farmgate Milk Price for the FY14 season by 50 cents to NZ$7.50 per kgMS and announced an estimated dividend of 32 cents per share - amounting to a Forecast Cash Payout of $7.82.
Accord United Pty Ltd has recalled Glico Collon Strawberry Biscuits and Glico Collon Chocolate Biscuits from Asian grocery stores in NSW and ACT due to the presence of undeclared allergens (milk, egg, wheat and soy).
Researchers from the University of Canterbury (UC) in New Zealand are developing a new bio-film to address the problem of bio-fouling of milk proteins in milk processing facilities.
Westland Milk Products, a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative, has entered into infant formula market in China with the launch of its Westpro Nutrition infant nutrition range in Shanghai.