It's a berry bad day for berries

The recall of Fruzio frozen berries has been extended to cover 1kg bags of strawberries, blackberries, and mixed berries. The additional voluntary recall was announced after Fruzio's 1kg and 500g mixed berry bags, which contain strawberries and blackberries, were recalled on Thursday. The products have been connected with a potential risk of hepatitis A, making this contamination the latest of a raft of food safety scares in New Zealand:

• Fonterra and Federated Farmers received threatening letters and milk packages tainted with 1080 last November. The letters threatened to contaminate infant formula if New Zealand did not stop using 1080, a poison used for pest control, by March. A 60-year-old businessman has been arrested and charged with attempted blackmail.
• This month an investigation by Massey University found a new antibiotic-resistant strain of campylobacter in poultry from three of the four leading chicken suppliers in the North Island. The university would not name the producers at this stage.
• In 2013 tests on a whey protein from one of Fonterra's factories indicated the possible presence of botulism. Several months later, the tests proved negative but not before New Zealand's reputation for safe milk powder was damaged in China.
• In 2012 Fonterra found traces of dicyandiamide, an agricultural chemical, in dairy products. The DCD product was withdrawn from the market by fertiliser companies.
• In 2008, Fonterra's Chinese partner Sanlu was found to have melamine in its milk powder. Six children died from the contamination and later investigations found melamine-laced milk powder was widespread, with more than 20 companies identified.

Seriously, people, get it together. This is stuff we put in our mouths.