Displaying items by tag: food safety

The most popular herbicide on the planet is coming under increasing scrutiny. 

Complex and rapidly changing patterns in global food consumption, manufacturing, and retailing are creating a completely new range of problems in food safety, says a senior Lincoln University lecturer.

The opposition claims that the Ministry for Primary Industries has ‘dumbed down’ the expertise needed to handle major food safety issues such as the recent 1080 threat.

Two weeks on and the 1080 threat to infant formula has disappeared from media headlines.

Synlait Milk is confident that its food safety systems and security standards protect the integrity of its products.

MPI's HANDLING of information over the food bug reinforces concerns about resourcing at the Ministry and adds fuel to Labour's repeated calls for an independent food safety agency, says Labour's Food Safety spokesman Damien O'Connor.

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY is tackling national and international food safety issues head on with a new microbiology short course aimed at industry.

NZ PRIME MINISTER John Key will discuss the Government's inquiry into Fonterra false-alarm food safety scare last year with top leaders when he visits China this month.

FONTERRA IS recalling 8700 bottles of fresh cream from around the North Island because they may be contaminated with the bacterium E.coli.

CONCERNS ABOUT food safety in parts of the China market underlie a plan by the Chinese infant formula maker Yashili to build a $220m plant at Pokeno, just south of Auckland.