The results of a New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) food monitoring and surveillance program indicate New Zealanders can continue to have confidence in the safety of their domestically produced food.
The NZFSA looked at both domestic foods and imports, especially those from China following the findings by other countries of dangerous contaminants in some Chinese produce.
We report on the findings of the Chinese imports elsewhere in this Food Surveillance News but look here at the results of domestic surveillance.
Glen Neal, NZFSAs Assistant Director (New Zealand Standards) said the results from domestic testing show that farmers and growers continue to take seriously their legal requirement to supply safe and suitable food, though the survey did find a small number of breaches in a wide range of tests.
None of these represented any risks to health, Mr Neal said.
In the dairy industry food residue results reflected a generally very high consciousness of food [...]
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