New Zealand Probes Fonterra over Food-Safety

　　The government of New Zealand has launched an official probe into dairy exporter Fonterra in connection with its tainted¹ dairy scandal in China.

 

　　New Zealand government officials have been sent to Fonterra's offices in Auckland and Melbourne to investigate and track the tainted products.

 

　　The probes are said to surround why Fonterra waited more than 48 hours to release information about the possible contamination.

 

　　Fonterra has also confirmed the New Zealand Ministry² of Primary Industries is studying data connected to the contamination scare.

 

　　The company says the contamination is due to a pipe that had not been sufficiently³ cleaned.

 

　　Fonterra discovered that some of its products were tainted with bacteria which can cause botchulism.

 

　　The company has since recalled the products in question.

 

　　Chinese authorities have since suspended all dairy imports from New Zealand and Australia while the probe is underway.

 

　　Dairy accounts for around a quarter of all of New Zealand's exports.

 

　　For more on this, we're joined live now by Benjamin Cavender, Associate principal at China Market Research in Shanghai.

1 tainted   

adj.腐坏的；污染的；沾污的；感染的v.使变质( taint的过去式和过去分词 )；使污染；败坏；被污染，腐坏，败坏

参考例句：

• The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
• He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 sufficiently   

adv.足够地，充分地

参考例句：

• It turned out he had not insured the house sufficiently.原来他没有给房屋投足保险。
• The new policy was sufficiently elastic to accommodate both views.新政策充分灵活地适用两种观点。