The Dutch government yesterday ordered an investigation into persistent shortages of certain brands of baby formula, blamed on networks of traffickers who ship milk powder to China where it is...
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- May 21, 2013
- Updated: 9:44pm
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29 Apr 2013
Bloomberg takes an odd angle on milk-powder smuggling in Hong Kong.
"Milk smugglers top heroin courier arrests in Hong Kong"
3:51PM
27 Apr 2013
Yong-Hee Kim still can’t believe that in a prosperous country like Germany, powdered baby formula would ever be rationed and that she would have to scour shops in the German capital to find the...
6:21PM
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5 Apr 2013
It was a relief for many newly mobilised baby formula traders when Shenzhen customs officers said on Thursday they would not crack down on "moonlighting smugglers”.
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29 Mar 2013
Retailers started pulling a brand of imported baby formula off shelves yesterday after a media report revealed that the Chinese distributor had repackaged the product in China and mixed it with...
5:04AM
14 Mar 2013
The Netherlands is the latest country to limit infant formula purchases after some Dutch supermarkets found Chinese customers buying suspiciously large quantities of formula.
3:43PM
Infant milk formula is a precious commodity 'kept under lock and key', and Hong Kong's budget woes.
6:00PM
Online purchases of milk powder will be outlawed under Beijing’s revised stricter food safety regulations, the Beijing Evening News reported.
1:12PM
When it comes to the emotive breast-versus-bottle debate, most developed countries follow the World Health Organisation and Unicef's International Code on Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes,...
4:09PM
The best way to understand the real lesson of the baby formula controversy is to go back to its origins, which explains why Hong Kong has to cling as tenaciously as possible to the "two systems"...
5:19AM
The baby formula saga rolls on, and as a public health researcher I have been waiting to see media coverage of someone from the Department of Health or the Food and Health Bureau pointing out...
5:47AM
Parallel-goods traders are already finding ways to dodge the two-tin limit on baby formula – weeks before the government is set to approve the new rule.
12:14PM
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