China's Ministry of Health has promulgated 66 new rules on dairy products and a highlight of the new rules is that a ban on the use of melamine in dairy products has been formally enacted.

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.

Twenty-two milk powder distributors have complained to local media about Chinese milk powder products manufacturer Yili's refusal to recall milk powder products contaminated with melamine.

The China Corporate Social Responsibility Rank 2009 was formally released at a symposium in Beijing organized, amongst others, by the China CSR Research Center.