Fonterra CEO flays O'Connor's milk taint talk

Fonterra CEO flays O'Connor's milk taint talk
By Pattrick Smellie Jan 28 (BusinessDesk) - Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings has torn strips off Labour agriculture spokesman Damien O'Connor for, he says, endangering the whole of the New Zealand dairy industry with "drastic" allegations relating to traces of a benign chemical, DCD, found in some powdered milk. O'Connor issued a press statement alleging a cover-up of the DCD findings in September to allow the Fonterra Shareholder Fund float to occur unimpeded in November. "If you do those allegations, you better come with some evide...