China Blocks Milk Imports At Its Borders: Australians Insist Their Products Are Safe

Posted on November 12, 2008 by E. Sakazakii Attorney

 China and Australia are trading partners, but are not seeing eye-to-eye when it comes to the safety of some milk products being imported to the PRC. As we reported earlier this month: China Finds Enterobacter Sakazakii In Australian Baby Milk

China turned away nine tons of Ausnutria products, manufactured by Australian dairy supplier Tatura and 14 tons of Pauls milk, produced by Parmalat Australia, a subsidiary of the Italian food giant. All, said the China Inspection and Quarantine (CIQ) , contained Enterobacter sakazakii which can cause fatal infections in infants.

For its part, Tatura said it was surprised by the CIQ findings, and that it would not change its own testing procedures and it wanted to make clear that Tatura's product was not linked to the recent scandal in which the industrial chemical melamine was discovered in milk made by 22 Chinese companies and then in eggs.

China's melamine scandal has made at least 53,000 children ill, and killed at least four.

After exporting 891 tons of product to China this year, Tatura officials were flustrated by being blocked at the Chinese border. We don't get the results. You can't negotiate, you can't fight it, it just gets turned around (at the border)."

Meanwhile, some European officials were even more blunt. "It's just something they use, I'm sure it's retaliation," a European Union official said.

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