AFTER AN INVESTIGATION into overseas brands of milk powder, about 40 percent of the 19 tested have been "disqualified" from the Chinese market because they did not meet the national standards. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:

Maybe because of the safety concerns about domestic infant formula in recent years, maybe because of their blind zeal for overseas products, some Chinese customers prefer foreign brands of milk powder to domestic ones.

These customers were quite astounded at the news that some well-known foreign brands have been disqualified from the Chinese market.