Sentences with phrase «foreign milk powder»

Chinese newspapers say that since 2008, foreign milk powder companies have increased prices by around 30 %.

Foreign milk powder surged in popularity in China after a 2008 scandal in which at least six infants died and 300,000 children fell ill after drinking domestic milk powder formula tainted with a toxic chemical, melamine.

Foreign milk powder brands and imported formula command a premium in China, following numerous safety scandals involving Chinese infant formula including the deliberate contamination of baby powder in 2008 with melamine that killed at least six babies and sickened 300,000.

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China's consumers tend to prefer foreign goods in specific categories such as milk powder, diapers and pet food, perceiving them to be of higher quality and more trustworthy.

And last week the co-operative was winded after China temporarily banned the sale of foreign powdered and UHT milk on its cross-border website.

China's consumers tend to prefer foreign goods in specific categories such as milk powder, diapers and pet food, perceiving them to be of higher quality and more trustworthy.

Yang Jing, a father from Zhengzhou in Henan province, said that he and his wife fed their child with imported Dutch milk powder and that the scare would not deter them from buying foreign formula.