Mengniu to use Danish tech to improve product quality

China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd is striving to use Danish technologies for managing ranches to improve the quality of products made by the domestic dairy industry, which has been plagued by food safety concerns in recent months.

Mengniu has been appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture to work with the dairy company Arla Foods to establish the China-Denmark Milk Technology and Cooperation Center as a means of sharing knowledge about ranch and risk management, according to a Mengniu statement. Through the local and overseas dairy industries' exchanges and cooperation, the company believes the Chinese dairy industry can reach a world-class standard.

"We forecast that by the end of 2012, the long-term benefits of Mengniu's product quality improvement will start to pay off after the introduction of these means of cooperation," Sun Yiping, Mengniu chief executive officer, said on Tuesday during a teleconference.