The Tianjin health bureau pledged at a meeting on Tuesday to investigate an allegation that French company Danone bribed hospital staff to give its milk powder to newborn babies. China Central Television reported on Monday that Danone, ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Diary Products
Chr. Hansen, a Danish food ingredients firm, has introduced Greek yogurt culture series, YoFlex and nu-trish SoGreek, designed to allow development of fortified as well as strained yogurt. Available with Chr. Hansen's probiotic BB-12, ...
Companies in China, whose tainted milk powder scandal in 2008 left six dead and more than 300,000 sick, are vaunting tie-ups with French dairies to shore up their image but some fear this could backfire for Paris. Chinese firm Biostime ...
Tags: Dairy Firms, milk powder
The National Dairy Authority (NDA) of Philippines has reported that the imports of milk and cream from abroad decreased 5.4% to 405,930 tons for the first quarter of 2013. The decline in imports was primarily due to increase in domestic ...
Tags: Dairy Imports, Agriculture
According to the market expectations, the FED of Australia cut benchmark interest rates to 2.5%. The fed said, the outlook for inflation may create a favorable environment for further rate cuts. Analysts said, although the Australian dollar ...
The China Automobile Dealers Association is beginning an investigation into the pricing of foreign car brands in China. "We are collecting data to investigate the price structure of imported vehicles in a bid to find out what is behind ...
Tags: Foreign Automakers
Chinese company Yashili has received approval to establish a NZ$220m ($170.7m) infant formula production facility in Pokeno, New Zealand. The Waikato District Council gave clearance for the facility after a three-day hearing which was ...
Tags: Yashili, Infant Formula
Dairy giant Arla has doubled profits for the first half of its financial year, amid news the two mergers it undertook in 2012 were paying off. Arla delivered capacity cost savings of £57M on an annual basis Arla announced its ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Dairy
China blocked 42 tons of Fonterra's whole milk powder from entering the country in May after checks at the border found excess levels of nitrites and it was sent back to New Zealand, the scandal-hit dairy giant confirmed Thursday. ...
Tags: Milk Powder, Nitrites
Italian dairy firm Parmalat is in exclusive negotiations to acquire a stake in Brazil dairy group Lacteos do Brasil (LBR) for an undisclosed amount. LBR is a manufacturer of a wide range of dairy products including fresh milk, milk ...
Tags: dairy firm, Food
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) of China has prepared a draft and submitted it to the country’s top officials to consolidate domestic infant formula manufacturers as part of its efforts to boost consumption ...
Tags: Milk Powder, infant formula
Milk powder in China will go on the shelves of pharmaceutical stores starting from October, according to a discussion held on Wednesday by an academic center affiliated to the Ministry of Commerce, reported the 21st Business Daily on ...
Tags: Milk powder, pharmaceutical stores
China is intensifying its investigation into alleged bribery in the pharmaceutical and medical services sector with a fresh three-month probe due to begin today. The investigation by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, a ...
Tags: milk powder, medicine pricing
China's consumer quality watchdog issued a warning Monday morning over two potentially tainted New Zealand-made Karicare-brand infant formula products because of botulism concerns. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, ...
Tags: NZ Milk
The New Zealand government will conduct a top level inquiry into how Fonterra’s whey product, which was potentially contaminated with botulism causing bacteria, was distributed globally. Prime Minister John Key said that Fonterra's ...
Tags: Whey Product