Wellington, March 5 NZPA - Fonterra researchers say a "musty" flavour detected in milk drinks containing calcium caseinate from New Zealand milk may have been due to tainting by chemicals from wooden floors in shipping containers, or plastic liners used in shipping.

Wellington, Feb 25 NZPA - Nuplex Industries Ltd today reported a record interim profit and said it is outperforming the global resin industry, in part because 40 percent of the group's business is in Australia.

Wellington, Sept 14 NZPA - The Government will announce next month how it is going to deal with the methamphetamine menace, Prime Minister John Key said today.

Wellington, July 24 NZPA - An industry group is fighting the Labour Department's decision to remove scaffolding from a list that makes it easier to get approval for migrants to work in this country.

By Ian Llewellyn of NZPA Shanghai, April 19 NZPA - Fonterra is now able to put the poison milk scandal behind it in China, although it will not be making any major new investments in the short term, Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden says.

Beijing, April 16 NZPA - China has asked New Zealand to assist in sorting out China's confidence crisis over food safety. Prime Minister John Key met Premier Wen Jiabao overnight (NZ time) with all pomp and ceremony a welcome in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing can muster.

By Ian Llewellyn of NZPA Beijing, April 15 NZPA - China still wants to work with New Zealand on building agricultural trade despite New Zealand's part in the contaminated milk scandal, Prime Minister John Key said today.

1. Public Health and Illness Prevention Programmes aimed at health promotion and preventing illness and injury are an investment in the future health of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Their success will have a major bearing on the level of treatment services that are needed in later years.

Wellington, Aug 28 NZPA - Specialty resins and chemicals company Nuplex Industries has posted a 42 percent rise in full year operating profit to $53.4 million.