Tmall.com, the B2C Internet shopping subsidiary of Alibaba Group, announced that it will cooperate with Danone and Nestle to launch direct sales and delivery of milk powder under six brands of the two groups, allowing Chinese consumers to enjoy the safe importation of milk powder products.

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.

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 General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China has published a blacklist of unqualified imported products for July 2009.

There are reports in the Chinese media of melamine-contaminated milk and this time the subject is said to be Scient Milk Powder.

According to reports in foreign media, a survey conducted by the British Children's Food Campaign shows that many Heinz products contain too much saturated fat, salt, and sugar, and hence they pose a threat to the health of children who eat them.

To further recognize World Consumer Rights Day on March 15, the China Consumers' Association has published details of what it regards as the 10 most serious incidents affecting consumers in China in 2008.