If you've had a bad week at work, I hope you're having a relaxing and wonderful weekend. And no matter how bad your week was, it surely can't have been as bad as the week the Fonterra management and board have had.

John Key's Cabinet must ensure an independent inquiry is held into the latest food safety scare to envelope the company that prides itself on being our national champion.

Questions remain over the status of potentially contaminated Karicare infant formula sold through unofficial channels in China, despite Fonterra's assertions that all products affected by its botulism scare have been contained.

Chinese consumers haven't been mincing their words over the Fonterra botulism debacle this week.

A few comments need to be made about Fonterra's contamination scare before revealing how a number of shareholders have hit the jackpot at King Country Energy.

New Zealand will have to fight to save its 100% Pure image after the Fonterra scandal, says the man credited with inventing the slogan.

Fonterra's response to a health scare affecting baby milk formula around the world reads like a textbook on how not to manage a crisis. Geoff Cumming examines what went wrong

British news website Daily Mail Online says New Zealand's claims to be clean and green are "pure manure".

Fonterra has admitted sending potentially contaminated whey protein concentrate to a high school after it was requested for a science project late last year.

The Government has repeated its vow to hold an investigation into Fonterra after a "frank and thorough" meeting with executives at the Beehive.

A food scare as serious as the risk of botulism in infant formula produced by New Zealand's biggest company will inevitably result in a call for heads to roll, and for Government inquiries into what went wrong.

Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce says the Government is yet to decide whether there will be a separate inquiry into Fonterra on top of one planned .

Fonterra chairman John Wilson said yesterday he was "deeply concerned" by the infant formula contamination scare.

Helplines are still being flooded with queries from thousands of concerned parents following Fonterra's infant milk contamination scandal.

Kiwi baby formula companies are having orders cancelled in China and contract negotiations with Chinese customers terminated.

Public relations sharks are circling Fonterra and what is believed to be New Zealand's biggest image handling contract.

Roughly 70 per cent of NZ exports come from primary industries, writes Toby Manhire. Fonterra alone is about 10 per cent of the economy. When the sector sneezes, the country catches cold.

"Was the Fonterra milk scandal caused by New Zealand being 'hostage to a blinkered devotion to laissez-faire market ideology'?" asks Bryce Edwards.

Daily newspapers in China have held nothing back in dealing to New Zealand over Fonterra's tainted milk powder crisis.

As Fonterra's boss said sorry to NZ over the formula scare, it emerged four batches of potentially contaminated formula reached Hong Kong and Australia.

More than 80,000 cans of suspect infant formula have been recalled in Hong Kong and a hotline set up by the city's authorities has been fielding hundreds of calls.

Fonterra head Theo Spierings - just back from China - delivers an apology to NZ over the formula scare, but dodges questions about his own performance.

Fonterra's infant formula scare appeared to have little impact on dairy prices.

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings reckons Fonterra's reputation will be fully restored in the Chinese market.

Fonterra's chief apologised to consumers and the New Zealand public at a press conference today, saying all contaminated stock had been contained.

Fonterra said it had been fined $900,000 following the conclusion of a review by Chinese authorities into the pricing of dairy products in the people's republic.