Sentences with phrase «melamine scandal»

Some countries, like Thailand, actually have stricter laws for food processing than the U.S., but as we saw in the 2007 melamine scandal, other countries have far less stringent laws, which may or may not be enforced.

According to a recent online survey by the Social Survey Centre of the China Youth Daily, nine years after the melamine scandal, 50 % of the interviewees see improvement in the quality of Chinese milk and 75 % are confident in the future production.

In the 2008 melamine scandal, Fonterra blew the whistle on Sanlu, its Chinese business partner, after local officials failed to alert the central government to the contamination.

Demand remains strong, particularly from China, where imports have increased significantly in the last two years following the Melamine scandal and subsequent decline in local production.

The melamine scandal that rocked China's dairy industry back in 2008 may have faded into the memory, but the Chinese government has cracked down on the local industry in recent years.

Since the 2008's melamine scandal, the milk industry in China has had a hard time gaining the trust from consumers in the Chinese milk market.

As a 2008 Olympic Game's sponsor, Yili (伊利), the second largest dairy company has explored a new way to market its product and overcome the melamine scandal.

The Chinese milk industry is still struggling to restore confidence in its products after the 2008 melamine scandal which killed six children and sickened up to 300,000 across the country.

Patty Clayton, a senior market analyst at DairyCo told this publication that the melamine scandal in China had contributed to an increase in global dairy imports last year.

Not exact matches

The 2008 melamine milk safety scandal provided huge business opportunities for foreign dairy producers, as the Chinese no longer trusted domestic brands and looked toward foreign suppliers for milk.

Examples from the last few years include the subprime mortgage crisis; the failure of the Peanut Corporation of America; the 2007 pet food scandal; lead paint on children's toys in 2007; melamine - laced Chinese milk products; contaminants in the drug Heparin; and dioxin - contaminated Irish pork.

Food safety has haunted China over the decade, from the 2008 Chinese milk scandal where milk formula is adulterated with melamine to the 2014 tainted meat scandal when expired meat is supplied to fast - food joints such as KFC and McDonald's.

However, in light of recent high - profile food scandals — such as exploding watermelons and melamine - tainted infant formula — there is understandably a lot of public opposition and mistrust towards «freaky» GM foods and China's agri - chem / agricultural technology sectors in general.

China has not been able to stimulate its local dairy production industry to meet the shortfall, while the devastating melamine infant formula scandal in 2008 has pushed many consumers to imported products, which they believe are safer than Chinese - made formulas.

The toughening of Chinese regulations stems originally from a series of health scandals in China involving Chinese companies cutting corners in their production, the worst of which was in 2008 when six babies died and 300,000 were seriously ill after drinking formula contaminated with the toxic industrial chemical melamine.

However, in 2008, China was hit by a scandal involving milk products that were found to contain melamine.

Multinational confectionery giants have defended the integrity of their products in the wake of the melamine in Chinese milk powder scandal.

He pointed out that unlike in the Sanlu scandal — where milk producers deliberately added melamine because it boosted their results in nutritional tests — the problems appeared to have occurred by accident.

One of the most notorious food scandals involved melamine - tainted milk powder in 2008, which killed at least six babies and sickened 300,000 others.

MPI's bombshell announcement in late January caused alarm in overseas dairy markets, particularly China, which had a fatal melamine infant formula poisoning scandal in 2008.

Just consider the implications of the partnership you mention above between Nestle & Fonterra: Fonterra owns a 43 % stake in Sanlu Group, the culprit behind the huge melamine - tainted formula scandal in China.

China's milk industry is struggling to restore consumer confidence after a series of scandals, the worst of which was in 2008 when milk and infant formula laced with the industrial chemical melamine killed at least six children and made nearly 300,000 ill.

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.

Demand for Hong Kong's high quality and regulated infant formula brands shot up in 2008 when a melamine milk powder scandal made nearly 300,000 mainland Chinese children sick.

Remember last year's scandal about the 300,000 Chinese infants who developed kidney disease after being fed infant formula laced with melamine?

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.

That anyone would put melamine into infant formula was shocking on its own (although the previous year's scandal over melamine in pet food ought to have been fair warning, as I explained in my book, Pet Food Politics).

2007 brought the Chinese pet food scandal — we learned Chinese companies were adding melamine to foods and treats which killed so many dogs and cats.

The owners of a Las Vegas - based company that supplied wheat gluten tainted with melamine to pet food makers have agreed to plead guilty in connection with the widespread scandal that may have killed thousands of dogs and cats in 2007.

The reality: With the dog treat recall and past dog food scandals, such as the melamine - tainted food that killed thousands of pets in 2007, it might seem that people food could be a better choice for your animal companions.