Australia Purchase Limit Formula Milk

                            

SYDNEY, KOMPAS.com- Increased demand, especially from immigrants and Chinese tourists, has forced supermarkets and pharmacies in Australia rationed sales of infant formula.

Pharmacist- pharmacists said, immigrants and Chinese tourists desperate to buy baby food safety after milk scandal that killed six children in China in 2008.

Most retailers in Australia to limit the amount of canned milk Karicare consumers can buy due to inventory some parts of Australia thinning.

sales spike occurs because immigrants and Chinese tourists in Australia stockpiling baby formula to be sent to China or sold online.

Pharmacists Sydney said most tourists often buy as much as they can stuffed in a suitcase to take to China.

Sarah Rooes a manager at a pharmacy in the center of Sydney, said the level of consumer demand from China high. "They came in and bought it. I guess they are just going to buy in bulk for the family and to be sent overseas. So, they are then disappointed. Previously, we receive orders, but now we can not do it. All I can say to them, come every week, just try it, we'll see, maybe we will get more stock, "he said.

Many Chinese people suspicious of infant formula products are produced in the country after the poisoning scandal in 2008. Six children died and 300,000 others fell ill after drinking milk tainted with chemicals for industry.

Tragedy that affects long, so many parents in China looking for overseas infant formula.

Supplier Karicare said demand in Asia for baby products Australia and New Zealand increased sharply since the food poisoning in China.

The company hopes to increase production by 50 percent next year.

Australia does not import milk products from China infant formula because of strict quarantine regulations, but the transition is likely to improve as the trading middle class in Asia increasingly are turning to overseas to get a reliable supply and safe for their children.