New dairy contamination - Westland products pulled
Dairy products from Westland Milk sent to China have been quarantined after concerns were raised about nitrate levels.
Hokitika based dairy company Westland Milk Products said a small amount of lactoferrin powder with elevated nitrate levels had been exported to China.
The product - which is a protein - had been traced and quarantined, Westland said.
The nitrate levels did not comprise a food safety risk, it said in a statement.
Chief executive Rod Quin said Westland had reported to the Ministry of Primary Industries that two batches of lactoferrin (totalling 390kg) showed nitrate levels of 610 and 2198 parts per million respectively.
Quin said that, based on investigations to date, it appeared to be an isolated incident in the lactoferrin plant only where traces of cleaning products - which contain nitrates - were not adequately flushed from the plant prior to a new run of product.
The New Zealand maximum limit for nitrates is 150 parts per million.
"We immediately initiated a process to find and quarantine all of the product and it has been put on hold," Quin said in a statement. 应该就是被隔离了吧作者: AUGUSTUS 时间: 2013-8-19 13:14:32