date:Jun 21, 2013
the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine shut down 475 milk enterprises.
China now has 127 infant formula producers and manufactured about 600,000 tonnes of the product in 2012.
Demand for infant formula is booming in China, but confidence in domestic products was badly hit after a milk scandal in 2008, which killed six infants and sickened 300,000 over melamine-tainting.