China's State Council has established a Food Safety Commission according to the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China.

At a recent working conference, China's National Office of Food Safety asked that decisive measures be taken to completely remove all possible risks from the country's food market.

Following the case of Shanghai Panda Dairy Company, three more Chinese companies have been exposed by local media for producing melamine-contaminated dairy products.

In a reprise of the melamine scandals of 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.

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.

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.

Three cities and three counties in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, including Tongliao city, are providing 250 grams of milk per day for a total of 280 days to pregnant women who follow the region's family planning policy.