Milk distributors sour on tardy gov’t responses

A young child stands in the dairy section of a Co.OpMart supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1.

Local businesses are facing the tough challenge of winning back consumers’ confidence after many were driven away by the recent melamine scare.

With slowing sales and growing concerns that thousands of workers may be laid [...]

Health Ministry calls for calm over tainted milk scare

HCMC authorities seized a large amount of melamine-tainted milk products for destruction Tuesday.

The Vietnamese Health Ministry Tuesday called for consumers to continue buying milk, issuing an assurance it had withdrawn most of the melamine-tainted dairy products circulating in Vietnam.

In a joint statement with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and [...]

Parents test children for kidney stones in milk scandal aftermath

Ho Chi Minh City Health Department inspectors examine a non-dairy creamer shipment at the Lua Chon Dinh (Top Choice) International Food Company before sealing it.

Many parents in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are having their children tested for kidney stones in local hospitals following the tainted milk scare in China.

Melamine-contaminated [...]

China milk scandal leaves Vietnamese parents anxious

Students drink milk at Ho Chi Minh City’s Truong Tho Prechool. Preschools and parents in the city and Hanoi continue to be anxious about the dairy products the children consume at school after the melamine-contamination scare.

Parents sending their children to kindergartens in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are anxious about the milk given to [...]