Both New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) and the company at the center of the latest scare, Westlake Milk, insisted the product called lactoferrin did not pose a safety risk, after a ne
Both New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) and the company at the center of the latest scare, Westlake Milk, insisted the product called lactoferrin did not pose a safety risk, after a new contamination scare hit New Zealand’s multi-billion dollar dairy industry on Monday after it was revealed a milk product with excessive nitrate levels had been exported to China.
But the timing could not be worse for the country’s dairy industry which generates a quarter of New Zealand’s exports as it struggles to recover from a botulism contamination crisis earlier this month.
How do imported fruits keep Chinese consumers interested?
On April 1, a bulk carrier loaded with over 3,500 tons of new season Zespri kiwifruits from New Zealand unloaded at the Yangshan South Port in Shanghai. Chilean cherries, a product also from the southern hemisphere, saw the sales plummet for the first time in China this season, due to consumers’ diminishing interest and the incident where the Covid-19 virus was tested on the surface of the fruit. Prices were halved or even worse. Similar to Chilean cherries, China is the largest single market for New Zealand’s kiwifruit exports. Will this product experience a similar fate this season?
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