Abbott Laboratories, a pharmaceuticals health care company based in the U.S, has said that the Chinese market was not affected by its voluntary recall of its Similac-brand powder infant formula.

American milk powder producer MeadJohn has claimed that it has no responsibility for the two batches of unqualified MeadJohnson milk powder products which were rejected by China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine for substandard protein content.

In response to a report that said that 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 Chinese market are all made with milk from New Zealand, Ireland or the Netherlands, so they aren't contaminated [...]

Wyeth China has told the media that it has started to communicate with parents of sick babies in the hope of assisting them to identify the cause of the illness of their babies and the company will cover the costs of checkups.

In response to earlier reports in the international media and complaints from Chinese citizens about problems with Dumex dairy products, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has published the results of its investigation on Dumex infant formula milk powder products and says that it found no evidence of melamine contamination.

China's Ministry of Health has announced that as at 20:00, November 27, a total of 290,000 children across the country had had a urinary system problems as a result of using Sanlu milk powder or other contaminated milk powders.

Following reports in Chinese media that its milk powder contains melamine, Mead Johnson, one of the major infant formula milk powder producers in the U.S., has announced that the reports were not true and its milk powder does not contain the harmful substance.