TAINTED BUTTER
No Clue Yet To Cause No explanation of the tainting of some of last Thursday’s churnings of butter by the Tai Tapu Dairy Company, Ltd., has yet been revealed by the scientific tests made on samples. But the company believes it has reclaimed almost all the affected butter and that probably only a few pounds are still in the hands of consumers.
Three of nine churnings were affected by an unidentified flavour in one of the ingredients last week. Nearly 300 boxes of butter were taken back from city grocers and replaced. “One bright spot in all this,” said the general manager of the Company <Mr J. G. Dunstan) yesterday, “is that the flavour seems to be disappearing from the affected butter and also from food cooked with a small proportion of butter.” A Government analyst is still trying to establish the cause of the contamination. Other samples were sent to North Island dairy research laboratories.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 20
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