Toxic sea slugs could be living in the waters around New Zealand but money to study them is proving harder to find than the slugs themselves.

First it was baby formula - now it appears NZ-sourced Fonterra milk powder is also being sold online in China.

NZ supermarkets are rationing baby formula because of fears of a shortage caused by Chinese buyers selling it in bulk to parents back in their homeland.

A 'dirty dozen' list compiled by food and soil researchers has revealed the foods most likely to contain pesticide residues.

Driving through Nairobi with blood pouring from a gunshot wound is not what Alan Mountfort visualised when he answered an ad to invest in an olive grove.

New Zealand bio-security and food safety authorities moved proactively this morning to announce the discovery of a brain disease that affects sheep.

MP Sue Kedgley says swimming with sharks could be safer than eating some varieties of fish sold in New Zealand.