Two of the world’s leading food and drink brands, Coca Cola and Danone, have issued product recalls following notification by New Zealand dairy producer Fonterra that they received an ingredient that included bacteria associated with the potentially fatal disease botulism. The whey protein concentrate, WPC80, is a dried product used as an ingredient in infant formula and sports drinks. In …

Fonterra, New Zealand’s largest company, has announced the first withdrawal of one of its own brands from the market, a cow’s milk replacement formula for feeding calves and not for human consumption, as global coverage of a botulism food scare widens. legitimate online job directory The news comes as the New Zealand government mobilises a 60-strong team of diplomats and …

onterra chief executive Theo Spierings is heading from Europe to China this weekend for meetings with manufacturers who have used contaminated whey powder supplied by the New Zealand dairy giant for use in infant formula and other products. The dairy cooperative is in crisis communications mode as it seeks to do the right thing by notifying that eight unnamed customers …