Almost half of China’s dairies closed down following quality inspections

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Nearly half of China's 1,176 dairies are being shut down after failing to obtain new licences, the country's quality inspection agency says. It says that 533 dairy producers have been ordered to halt productions after a government safety audit. Read full article

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GeoffWard
If 20% of Chinese dairy companies were implicated in the 2008/9 Melamine-in-baby-milk scandal - leading to 3 death sentences of ringleaders, then there are another 30% that have different health-related production problems.

However, the rapid rate of re-licencing plants closed by the Government shows two things:

(i) The problems are readily rectified.
(ii) There is an absolute economic need for these factories to come back on line asap.

(ii) is true, but I'm not so sure about (i).
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