Fonterra, a New Zealand-based dairy co-operative, has said that it could face a legal challenge from French dairy major Danone over an infant formula contamination scare. The company had discovered a potentially fatal ingredient in a ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, dairy
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
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
International infant formula producers in China have announced their plans to lower the prices, a move which comes after the government initiated an investigation into alleged price fixing by foreign firms. Danone said that it will lower ...
Tags: infant formula, baby formula
Chinese infant formula group Synutra International has lowered its full-year outlook for a second time, having booked a second-quarter loss. The company said net losses totalled US$44.2m in the three months to the end of September, ...
Tags: Synutra, infant formula group, full-year outlook, second-quarter loss
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is seeking submissions on a proposed change to infant formula requirements in the Food Standards Code. FSANZ is evaluating an application to reduce the minimum required level of L-histidine in ...
Tags: infant formula requirements, submissions on a proposed change
China has returned more than 70kg of imported Heinz infant formula products to Australia as they contained high levels of vitamin B2,which could result in adverse health consequences,according to China's top quality watchdog. The product ...
Tags: infant formula, vitamin B2, vitamin B5
China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has ordered Hunan AVA Dairy to halt the production of infant formula products, as they were found to contain the carcinogen aflatoxin. AQSIQ ...
Tags: infant formula products, contain the carcinogen aflatoxin
China-focused infant formula firm Synutra International has cut its full-year sales and profits guidance following a weaker-than-expected first quarter. For the three months to the end of June, Synutra saw net sales rise by 22.5% to ...
Philippines has banned mercury-tainted infant formula from China,as a part of its effort to ensure food safety in the country. This move comes after China's product quality watchdog's recent announcement that high levels of mercury were ...
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Feihe International,a leading producer and distributor of food products in China,has introduced the Product Inquiry System(PIS)for infant formula products,in order to improve product traceability. According to the company,consumers can ...
Tags: Feihe, PIS, infant formula