Fonterra Co-operative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, is on track in lifting the quality of its food safety processes, nine months after an independent review into its handling of last year’s false alarm food scare.

The Auckland-based company has completed audits of 75 per cent of its plants globally and has embarked on necessary improvements and maintenance where needed, put in place protocols to engage external scientific and diagnostic resources and written food and safety quality into all senior management employment contracts, it said in a statement. It’s also set up an incident management team, created a food safety and quality council, and appointed Greg McCullough as head of food safety and quality.