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A joint ministerial inquiry into the Fonterra Cooperative Group food scare will look at how the dairy exporter’s contamination occurred and whether the country’s regulatory regime is up to scratch, but won’t touch on questions of liability or the legislative structure of the dairy sector. Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy and Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye today released the draft …

New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries has revoked export certificates for four consignments of lactoferrin made by Westland Milk Products after unacceptable levels of nitrates were found in two batches. mobile spy android gps fail One batch was exported directly to China and a second was supplied to Tatua Cooperative Dairy Co before being shipped to China, the department said. …

Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, faces a 14 day temporary ban on selling products in Sri Lanka, and denies claims its products still contain traces of a nitrate inhibitor that sparked a food scare earlier this year. Three workers representing Sri Lanka’s National Health Services Union have won a temporary injunction to stop the Auckland-based company from …

Fonterra Cooperative Group’s tainted food scare has claimed its first scalp with the resignation of NZ Milk Products managing director Gary Romano. Romano, who initially fronted for Fonterra to New Zealand media while chief executive Theo Spierings went to China, has resigned effective immediately, the dairy company said in a statement. Spierings will personally assume interim responsibility for the daily …

China’s Bright Food Group, a cornerstone stake in local processor Synlait Milk, is likely to get a boost from Fonterra Cooperative Group’s food scare and might get a credit rating upgrade from Moody’s Investors Service. home sharing not working Fonterra is the biggest milk powder supplier into China with about 60 percent market share, and last week’s food safety scare …

China’s Bright Food Group, a cornerstone stake in local processor Synlait Milk, is likely to get a boost from Fonterra Cooperative Group’s food scare and might get a credit rating upgrade from Moody’s Investors Service. Fonterra is the biggest milk powder supplier into China with about 60 percent market share, and last week’s food safety scare is seen as credit …

Fonterra scare  Prime Minister John Key is vowing to go to China as soon as he can to apologise personally for the Fonterra botulism scare, armed with the findings of a new kind of Ministerial inquiry, for which new law will be passed, possibly under parliamentary urgency next week. Key announced at his post-Cabinet press conference that the Inquiries Bill, …

Health Minister Tony Ryall and Food Safety Minister Nikki Kaye confirm that Nutricia has today narrowed the scope of the recall for infant formula.  “The Ministry for Primary Industries and Nutricia’s verification work has enabled the recall to be narrowed only to 900g cans manufactured between 21 May 2013 and 2 August 2013 inclusive,” Kaye says.  The following 900g cans remain …

The Ministry for Primary Industries investigation into Fonterra Cooperative Group’s potentially tainted whey protein concentrate will take up to six months. jobs working from home Acting MIP director general Scott Gallacher said the 20-person probe spear-headed by the ministry’s compliance director probably take between three and six months. The investigation will determine whether Food Act and Animal Products Act regulations …

Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief Ralph Norris is to lead Fonterra Cooperative Group’s board inquiry into the botulism contamination scare, helped by former High Court judge Judith Potter and Chapman Tripp lawyer Jack Hodder QC. home based business ideas Norris, an independent director of Fonterra, will lead a committee of six that Smell lighter work Walgreens. My the best …