Authority and the Ministry of Health and the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand to issue reports and statements confirming the safety of conventional milk.

A2 Corporation obtained agreements with enough dairy farmers to launch its milk in New Zealand at the end of April 2003. In the middle of 2003, both founders of the company died. In July, Paterson was found dead in his hotel room during a business trip at the age of 50. A month later Dr. Corran McLachlan died of cancer at the age of 59.