UPDATE Fonterra fined $300,000 over food safety failings in botulism scare

UPDATE Fonterra fined $300,000 over food safety failings in botulism scare
(Adds court comments from the second paragraph.) April 4 (BusinessDesk) – Fonterra Cooperative Group, the country’s biggest company, was fined $300,000 for breaches of the Animal Products Act during last year’s whey protein concentrate incident. Judge Peter Hobbs fined Fonterra $60,000 for three separate charges and $120,000 for a fourth charge in the Wellington District Court. The judge took a starting point of $375,000, before mitigating factors including Fonterra’s early guilty plea and steps it took to address the issue, though he lifted...