date:Jun 28, 2013
consultant to food companies in China.
To try to tackle that problem, Beijing is encouraging a move to larger farms and farmers' cooperatives.
Consolidation is already under way in the domestic dairy sector, driven in large part by a 2008 safety scandal when milk formula tainted with the illegal additive melamine killed six infants. Other tainted milk incidents have emerged since.
China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd (2319.HK) signed a $1.6-billion deal this month to take over the milk powder business