Company-Authorized Dealer Is Linked to Latest Milk Powder Scandal

(Beijing) – A company-authorized dealer of baby formula has been linked to a ring making selling knockoff baby milk powder, a case that one analyst says highlights problems with government supervision of the industry.

Police in Shanghai detained the dealer and eight other people from December 9, 2015, to January 7 this year on suspicion they produced and sold knockoff milk powder products, an official with a food-safety office under the cabinet said at a news conference in the capital on April 9.