date:Jul 12, 2023
The New Zealand Food Safety Science and Research Centre has commissioned the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit (AERU) at Lincoln University to make an independent estimate of the value of the Centre to New Zealand.
Their conservative estimate is $164 million a year, a considerable return on the government investment of up to $2.5 million and a matching amount from the food industries that benefit from the research.
According to Dr Libby Harrison, Director of the Centre, that the New Zea