Formula producer backs import claim

In the latest case to inflame consumer mistrust of the country's dairy industry, major baby formula producer Scient is battling reports its products are not made from imported milk as claimed.

"The dairy ingredients of our Scient products have been 100 percent imported. There have been no problems with quality and the products are in line with the country's quality supervision requirements," Zhang Peixi, a manager for the company, told China Daily yesterday.

He was responding to comments from Wang Dingmian, executive council member of the Dairy Association of China, that Scient has been falsely touting its baby formula as 100 percent imported from Australia and New Zealand, when the source was actually Shanxi and Heilongjiang provinces.