date:May 30, 2014
anges to its original provisions, the final version of the Act is now projected to save New Zealands food industry $40 million in compliance costs each year.
The new Food Act is also a response to recent health scares linked to New Zealand food products, in particular the 2013 one involving Fonterra, in which 38 tons of whey protein used in infant formula, much of it exported overseas, was found to be contaminated with botulism.
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