In a reprise of the melamine scandals of 2008 and 2009, the Shanghai Municipal Food Safety Joint Conference Office, has announced that the Shanghai Panda Dairy Company has been punished by the local food supervision department for producing and selling dairy products contaminated with melamine.

Chinese dairy company Mengniu has published its financial report for the first half of 2009.

Chinese dairy products company Bright Dairy has announced plans to invest CNY50 million to improve its pasture-land and to further improve its milk quality.

The brand of the Sanlu Group, the Chinese dairy group which was involved in the melamine scandal, was recently sold at auction for CNY7.3 million.

Chinese dairy giant Yili has published its annual financial report for 2008 showing that it made losses of CNY1.96 billion during the year.

In response to a report that stated 15 American infant formula milk powder products contain perchlorate, Abbot, one of the three major milk powder producers from the United States, declared that all their products sold on the Chinese market are all made with milk from New Zealand, Ireland, or the Netherlands, so they aren't contaminated [...]