Higher Faith, Higher Price

While foreign milk powder producers see profits swell, consumers aren’t complaining Zhou Chunyan, a 27-year-old Shanghai mother, spends most of her time taking care of her little son. "He is the apple of my eye. I sterilize the tableware he uses every day, choose the clothes he wears and crush food into paste with a juicer, not to mention select the milk powder he drinks,"she said. Because of China’s frequent milk powder scandals-such as a recent one involving a company creating phony production dates on its packages and the 2008 crisis in which 300,000 babies were sickened and another six died after some