Both New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) and the company at the center of the latest scare, Westlake Milk, insisted the product called lactoferrin did not pose a safety risk, after a ne Both New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) and the company at the center of the latest scare, Westlake Milk, insisted the product called lactoferrin did not pose a safety risk, after a new contamination scare hit New Zealand’s multi-billion dollar dairy industry on Monday after it was revealed a milk product with excessive nitrate levels had been exported to China. But the timing could not be worse for the country’s dairy industry — which generates a quarter of New Zealand’s exports — as it struggles to recover from a botulism contamination crisis earlier this month.