WELLINGTON, Aug 6 — Infant formula company Nutricia issued a wider recall of two of its products late Monday, after the latest information from the country’s leading multinational dairy company Fonterra.
Nutricia said it has moved from a voluntary recall of limited batches of two Karicare products to a full, voluntary recall, Xinhua news agency reported.
All batches of Karicare Stage 1 New Baby Infant Formula and Karicare Gold Plus Stage 2 Follow On Formula are being recalled.
Nutricia said none of the products tested and sold in New Zealand indicate any contamination.
New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industry welcomed Nutricia’s latest decision.
“At this time we don’t know which products are potentially contaminated and because of that uncertainty a recall is prudent,” the ministry’s director Scott Gallacher said.
In a related development, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said yesterday a probe will be conducted into Fonterra.
Key told a press conference that it was likely two inquiries would result from the issue.
“They will need to answer some questions around the length of time it took for all of us to know, the processes it went through from when it first identified there could be an issue to when it was brought into the public domain, to their general approach to the issue,” he said.
Key said the second inquiry was likely to be into how food safety regime and systems had responded. – Bernama
