India extends Chinese milk ban

By Ankush Chibber, 02-Jan-2012

 China will have to wait another six months before it can export its milk products across the Himalayas after India extended the ban on these food items.

According to a notification from the Indian Directorate General of Foreign Trade, (DGFT) the ban on the import of milk and its products from China will extend until at least June this year.

India banned the import of these food items in 2008 when the melamine milk contamination scandal broke in China, which affected over 300,000 children, and was implicated in the death of up to 12 infant deaths.

The DGFT said the ban, which was set to end on December 24, would be extended to June 24, 2012. The prohibition would cover milk and products including chocolates and confectionery preparations with milk or milk solids as an ingredient ...  read more
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