Federated Farmers is praising the Ministry for Primary Industries for turning away a shipment of possibly contaminated palm kernel extract.
Twenty-three thousand tonnes of it has been sitting on a ship off the coast of Tauranga since early September.
The vessel will not be permitted to discharge its cargo in New Zealand, it was announced today.
Federated Farmers biosecurity spokesman Guy Wigley says it's irresponsible of the importer to persist for so long, in trying to bring in extract that falls short of our biosecurity standards.
He says they're seriously disappointed with the importer, which clearly thought it might get away with it.
