Mead Johnson Nutrition Company has now ended an investigation into alleged corrupt practices in China by agreeing to pay a paltry USD12 million settlement.

New Zealand-based Fonterra has advised eight of its customers of a quality issue involving three batches of a particular type of whey protein concentrate produced at a single New Zealand manufacturing site in May 2012.

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.