The ICAC is looking into a complaint in which workers at a Wellcome supermarket in Sheung Shui allegedly sold a large amount of tinned milk formula to two people.
The supermarket chain said yesterday an internal investigation found three staff members working in Sheung Shui - a district hit by milk powder shortages - violated company guidelines when they sold the milk formula to the individuals, believed to be middlemen.
The chain's management yesterday met lawmaker Wong Sing-chi after he complained to the ICAC about Wellcome staff in the Choi Yuen Estate store accumulating stocks of milk powder rather than selling them to parents.
'We are following procedures in taking up the case,' an ICAC spokesman said.
Baby formula has become a must-buy item for many mainland visitors and middlemen after the tainted milk scandal across the border, leading to shortages in many districts across Hong Kong.
Apart from the Wellcome case, Wong said he had received more than 10 complaints about staff at other supermarket chains selling milk powder to traders - people who buy products in Hong Kong for resale on the mainland - instead of making them available to regular customers. Outlets in Sha Tin, Tseung Kwan O, Taikoo Shing and Northern district were involved, he said.
A spokeswoman for the supermarket confirmed that the employees had failed to follow company sales procedures stating each customer could only buy three cans of milk formula at a time, and the three had been formally warned.
