Because some Chinese "purchasing agents" ignore supermarket regulations, scramble to buy baby formula, resulting in Australia's local mother screaming: "these purchasing agents have been robbed of milk powder!" Our Australian baby has no milk at all! "
Local consumers and shop assistants in Australia do not understand the madness of "purchasing agents":
"what is the mentality of ransacking milk powder in other countries and then going back to sell it to one of your own?"
After all, those uncivilized "purchasing agents" are only a few, but because of their behavior, many people who do not violate the regulations of the supermarket go shopping, and they will also be criticized by the shop assistants, and they have always been warned against:
"can't you produce milk powder in your country? why do you have to come to Australia and rob us?"
Now, an Australian has come forward to name a group of "purchasing agents" who have been criticized as "purchasing agents".
"if my relatives and friends are in China, I am fighting for this life, and I want to help steal milk powder!"
What's going on here?
In the Daily Telegraph, an author named Claire Harvey wrote an article entitled "how to protect the safety of babies in China," in which she said that the Chinese who snatched milk powder in supermarkets actually had their own reasons of last resort.
"those Chinese faces who scramble to buy baby formula in supermarkets and sell it back home have always aroused the anger and revulsion of many Australian mothers. We do not know that we should actually support them and take their side with them. Even clap for them! "
"because some Chinese businessmen completely ignore the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and even endanger the lives of children!"
In 2008, thousands of babies were seriously ill and even at least six died from melamine poisoning, the chemical extract found in some Chinese infant formula, as a result of the "tainted milk powder" incident that shocked the nation.
The black-heart milk powder manufacturers deliberately added melamine, which is harmful to the human body, to induce regulators to believe that formula milk has a higher protein content than it actually is.
Such scandals are not alone.
Fermented tofu in sewage, replaced beef and mutton with dead mouse meat, and extracted gutter oil to serve on the table.
According to Guangzhou Daily a few years ago, "Gougou Oil", a three-free product, has many more pathogenic and carcinogenic toxic substances than real edible oil. China returns 2 million to 3 million tons of gutter oil to the table every year, while the annual consumption of vegetable oil by the Chinese is about 22.5 million tons.
In other words, according to the proportion, eat 10 meals outside, there may be 1 meal ran into the trench oil!
"We should be very lucky to live in a country where Australia is strictly regulated and its markets are strictly controlled by government," says Claire Harvey. And the Chinese who buy baby formula at Australian supermarkets are just trying to make their children feel more comfortable drinking it. "
"if I had relatives and friends in China, I would do the same for the health of their children, no matter what kind of white eyes I would suffer when I was buying milk powder at the supermarket."
Why does the relationship between "purchasing agents" and Australian local mothers become so difficult?
Earlier, a scene in coles made an Australian mother feel very angry. A tight baby milk powder just put on the shelf, has not waited for her to react for a while, suddenly a group of people rushed up, will milk powder snapped up!
As soon as the milk powder was pushed by the clerk, their eyes glowed with excitement!
A kind of eager to try, so close to jump on the grab!
Cut into the basket, ah, can not stop!
A few minutes, originally still full of shelves, was snapped up!
If the clerk hadn't stopped there, I guess the last can of milk powder would not have survived.
In order to "prevent purchasing agents," the supermarket issued a "purchase restriction order," and even affixed Chinese slogans, words between the lines, targeted at all Chinese groups.
However, some time ago, an Australian businessman named Matthew McDougall came forward to justify the name of the Chinese purchasing agents: milk powder manufacturers can not keep up with the demand, how can they blame the "purchasing agents"?
Matthew McDougall specifically launched the China-Australia Association of purchasing agents to improve the relationship between the new "purchasing agent" model of milk powder trading and ordinary consumers. He believes that as long as the manufacturers of these infant formula can increase their production, he believes that as long as the manufacturers of these infant formula can increase their production, To ensure that most of the "purchasing agents" can pick up goods directly from suppliers, there is no need to go to supermarkets and pharmacies to grab milk powder from local mothers in Australia.
McDougall also admitted that under the premise of the tight supply of infant formula, purchasing agents did affect parents in Australia, so that the situation should be changed to calm the anger of local parents in Australia.
In fact, the main contradiction between purchasing agents and Australian mothers is the shortage of infant formula.
As long as this problem is solved, as for the water and fire, for the two cans of milk powder can not be played?
In fact, in order to meet the growing demand from Chinese buyers, Australia's well-known milk powder brand Aptamil, once had to increase the production of milk powder by 50% in a short period of three months!
Even so, the supply is still short of demand.
The milk powder produced in Australia and New Zealand is indeed safe, clean, reliable, shocked by the "Sanlu incident", and the mothers who dare not let their baby take risks, have worked hard, and want to provide more reliable milk powder to their children. This mood is also not difficult to understand.
But on other people's soil, ignoring supermarket rules, ignoring the needs of local moms and baby, that's not really true.
The editor thinks that Chinese mothers should not kill all domestic milk powder brands because of the food safety incident a few years ago. At the same time, when purchasing milk powder in Australia, they must also abide by the relevant regulations of supermarkets. Consider how Australian moms feel.