Botulism scare avoidable if responsibility passed swiftly to top management: review chairman.

That the scare turned out to be the result of a false positive test does not mitigate the need for Fonterra to up its game, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

A sugar-cured, old-fashion leg ham on the bone from a Canterbury Butchery has taken out the title of the best ham in the land.

Push for higher volumes compromising our greatest export, write Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons. "The future of NZ's dairy industry should lie in quality, not quantity."

It wasn't the first complaint about airline food, but it was definitely one of the most emphatic.

Making that ready meal look appetising on the packet requires plenty of photographic skill and maybe a little rearrangement.

So far our brave bellies have held up to the challenge, but we're only one week in. Check out the best and worst of the week.

Decried as "heart-stopping" by its creators, the Do-Cro burger sandwiches a hamburger patty and slice of processed cheese between two pieces of cronut clones.

The duplicity in our food supply stretches far wider than most of us ever imagined. All sorts of common (and not so common) foods aren’t quite what they purport to be.

This is a very old-fashioned type of product which harks back to the very British- inspired lifestyle when you would have fish paste sandwiches in your lunch box.

Buffy Gill spent years analysing some of New Zealand's major retailers and property firms for the local branch of one of the world's biggest investment banks.

Buying meat in a can is something we used to do more when it was harder to get fresh meat every day.

I recently returned from China with some "issues" in the digestive department. I self-diagnosed my problem as having a deficit of good bacteria in my gut and so scanned the supermarket shelves for a product which might change the microflora balance.

I picked this up on the supermarket shelf because I had been reading a book about the Kraft product this came from, called Cheez Whiz.

I am using this jar of Strawberry Marshmallow Fluff to christen a new food category for my column called "Loud and Proud".

I've never come across these before but I'm told that Lasagne Toppers, which are the big version of these, are very popular.

An unnamed Northland food outlet is being investigated over nine confirmed cases of a rare type of Salmonella.

Jars of sauces like this can mean that dinner is on the table in a matter of minutes. Just fry some meat, at the sauce and heat until hot.

When I reviewed Super Juice and found it had more sugar in it then Coca Cola, the reaction was one of shock as people absorbed the knowledge that something we always thought was healthy - fruit juice - can contain such a mother load of sugar.

My mission this week was to find instant noodles that my daughter could eat because, apparently, being the daughter of the "processed food lady" is boring, limiting and completely unfair.

The debate over importing Australian tomatoes which have been zapped with radiation has been driven by fierce trans-Tasman rivalry rather than legitimate food safety concerns, growers across the ditch say.

Organisers of a red meat industry meeting in Christchurch tomorrow are seeking a written mandate from farmers, including a commitment to a possible new entity.

Fonterra will launch its own infant formula brand in China this year as it looks to grab a slice of the booming market for the product in the Asian superpower.

Susan Edmunds answers your consumer questions.