Although there is not yet a recall in China, major online shopping platform Taobao has blocked Meiji baby formula from its search results, reports the China Daily.
China has taken some baby steps in this direction, for instance by allowing firms to issue yuan-denominated bonds in Hong Kong.
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The strongest sales growth in recent years in China has been for baby products such as diapers (42% last year), diaper wipes (34%), baby milk formula (nearly 26%) and baby cereal (22%).
At baby showers in America, expectant mothers coo over cute onesies, baby sunglasses and cuddly toys, in China the most valued gift is imported milk formula.
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Citing comments from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), Beijing News says the Meiji stocks on sale in China through official retail channels were imported from the firm's Australian factories, while China's ban on baby milk made in Japan is still in place.
Abbott Laboratories (ABT) unveiled an earnings report buoyed by nutritional sales like the flagship baby formula Similac in the emerging markets of China and India.
Retailers in the UK are rationing sales of powdered baby milk because of a surge in demand in China.
This has resulted in bulk buying of baby formula from other countries to sell for profit in China.
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The generation in question is the one before the fertility fall really begins to bite, which in Europe and America was the baby-boom generation that is just retiring, and in China and East Asia the generation now reaching adulthood.
The Dutch government is investigating a shortage of certain brands of baby formula, as well as potentially illegal exports of the products to China.
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In China--where the company is known as Hao Hai Zi, which translates into "good baby"--it controls nearly 70% of the stroller market.
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