Domestic dairy products are 'safe'
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March 13, 2011, Sunday
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THE milk products made on the Chinese mainland are trustworthy, Wei Chao'an, vice minister of agriculture, said yesterday, trying to allay fears of Chinese parents who resort to overseas tours to buy milk powder for babies.
"The ministry has conducted regular tests of milk products over the past few years, and has not detected melamine or leather hydrolyzed protein," Wei told a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing parliamentary session in Beijing.
Wei's comments were in response to a question concerning the safety of China's dairy products, which have been hit by scandals of melamine-tainted baby formula and "leather milk."
Wei said the quality of China's farm produce is "generally safe," but admitted it will be some time before consumer confidence in Chinese milk powder is restored following the melamine-tainted baby formula scandal in 2008, which killed at least six infants and sickened 300,000 children nationwide.
It has been widely reported that Chinese mothers have flocked to Hong Kong, Macau and foreign countries to buy baby formula milk products after the scandal. Such "milk sweeping" tours have even resulted in milk powder supplies in Hong Kong and Macau occasionally running out.
On reports about "leather milk," Wei said they might stem from a case in 2009 when leather hydrolyzed protein was found in some milk drinks in Jinhua City of east China's Zhejiang Province.
The company involved in the "leather milk" scandal, the Chenyuan Dairy Co in Jinhua, had been punished, officials said last month.
"The ministry has conducted regular tests of milk products over the past few years, and has not detected melamine or leather hydrolyzed protein," Wei told a press conference on the sidelines of the ongoing parliamentary session in Beijing.
Wei's comments were in response to a question concerning the safety of China's dairy products, which have been hit by scandals of melamine-tainted baby formula and "leather milk."
Wei said the quality of China's farm produce is "generally safe," but admitted it will be some time before consumer confidence in Chinese milk powder is restored following the melamine-tainted baby formula scandal in 2008, which killed at least six infants and sickened 300,000 children nationwide.
It has been widely reported that Chinese mothers have flocked to Hong Kong, Macau and foreign countries to buy baby formula milk products after the scandal. Such "milk sweeping" tours have even resulted in milk powder supplies in Hong Kong and Macau occasionally running out.
On reports about "leather milk," Wei said they might stem from a case in 2009 when leather hydrolyzed protein was found in some milk drinks in Jinhua City of east China's Zhejiang Province.
The company involved in the "leather milk" scandal, the Chenyuan Dairy Co in Jinhua, had been punished, officials said last month.
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