Recent reports are surfacing in China about high hormone levels in young children who have been drinking a particular milk brand of powdered milk.
Some children have been tested for hormone levels and results indicate that these are at levels equal to adult women, and the young children have been developing breasts.
The suspicion is that hormones fed to dairy cows to boost production are being found in milk. This livestock production practice is generally banned in most countires.
Comes back to the same issue.............do you trust Chinese food, especially fresh food imported to Australia?
Other than milk, there are a lot of fresh and frozen vegetables from China arriving in Australia via New Zealand, where they are repacked and get to qualify as "free entry" since they are now ostensibly "from New Zealand".
I for one am very unsure about food quality control in China.............let alone issues around corruption and poor production practices. While milk from China does not come to Australia, it does get exported to some other countries of SE Asia.
read more here-
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/7733883/china-milk-powder-blamed-for-baby-breasts/
No doubt there will be more media coverage.
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