Experts Criticize Food-Safety Watchdog after Another Baby Formula Scandal

(Beijing) – Two experts have questioned how the government is handling yet another problem in the baby formula industry – one involving knockoffs that comes in the wake of a scandal eight years ago that saw six babies die and hundreds of thousands of others fall ill due to tainted milk products.

The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) said on April 4 that it ordered a nationwide inspection of baby formula on store shelves after police in Shanghai broke up a ring that was putting cheaper milk products for infants into packages that looked like those of several name-brand companies.