A group of New Zealand meat processing companies and their directors have been fined a total of $1.6 million for illegally altering tallow exports by blending them with unknown adulterants to lower free fatty acid levels and increase profits.
The tallow, used in biofuels, was rendered at plants owned by Tuakau Proteins, Taranaki By-Products, and Wallace Proteins, among others.
New Zealand Food Safety launched a lengthy investigation after a whistleblower tip, uncovering a coordinated effort to export over 8,000 tonnes of non-compliant product.
Officials stressed the deliberate nature of the scheme and the risk it posed to New Zealand’s trade reputation, though no direct food safety threat was found.
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MRNA’s okay though 👍
….illegally altering tallow exports by blending them with unknown adulterants to lower free fatty acid levels and increase profits, but the officials stressed that no direct food safety threat was found?
So how can those officials know? They must obviously be lying. Who pays them?
It’s easy to make your own! And way cheaper