date:Mar 04, 2014
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Last year, two-way trade totaled 18.2 billion NZ dollars (15.2 billion U.S. dollars), up 25 percent on the previous year.
The New Zealand government announced last month that it had set up a working group to improve dairy product traceability in the wake of Fonterra's global recall last August of whey protein concentrate mistakenly suspected of containing a botulism-causing bacterium.
The government inquiry into the incident recommended improving the dairy sector's ability to trace product