Abbott has been exposed to drugs for ten times in China

Yesterday morning, the national development and Reform Commission announced that six milk powder manufacturers, including Abbott, were fined about 670 million yuan for violating the anti-monopoly law to restrict competition, of which Abbott was fined 77 million yuan Then Abbott admitted to be involved in the Fonterra milk powder incident It's the most appropriate way to describe Abbott, a famous American Dairy Company, in China In the early morning of yesterday, the national development and Reform Commission announced that six milk powder manufacturers, including Abbott, were fined about 670 million yuan for violating the anti-monopoly law to restrict competition, of which Abbott was fined 77 million yuan After that, Abbott admitted that it was indeed involved in the event of Fonterra milk powder, which confirmed the previously suspected "demand" in the event of Fonterra milk powder "Liar", together with the fact that he has been exposed repeatedly in China for ten years, makes the industry and consumers begin to doubt Abbott's integrity According to the antimonopoly law, once an enterprise is confirmed to be illegal by the antimonopoly department, it may face a fine of 1% - 10% of the annual sales volume of the enterprise The specific amount of penalty shall be determined according to the enterprise's violation and cooperation in inspection Statistics from the industry show that the prices of four ocean milk powder brands - Mead Johnson, Domex, Wyeth and Abbott have increased by more than 50% on average year by year since the melamine incident of milk powder broke out in 2008, among which Abbott has the highest cumulative increase of more than 60% "For the price hike of products, some milk powder enterprises have attributed it to the rising cost and the replacement of formula However, in terms of cost, since 2012, with the increasing supply of dairy products in the global market, the price of packaged milk powder as the raw material of infant milk powder has been declining " Song Liang, an expert in dairy industry, disagrees with the reasons for the price increase Not only that, many insiders also pointed out that for dairy enterprises, the cost difference is mainly in raw materials, but the possibility of a 10% difference in the cost of the whole line is very small Therefore, in the past five years, compared with other three ocean milk powder brands, Abbott has no way to hide the increase in cost Not only that, after the national development and Reform Commission announced an anti-monopoly investigation on it, and after Mead Johnson, Domex, Wyeth and other brands announced price cuts in response to the inspection, Abbott slowly released the price reduction signal, and the maximum price reduction was only 12%, which was far from the 60% increase in five years So yesterday, the national development and Reform Commission announced that Abbott's punishment amount accounted for only 3% of annual sales, which surprised the industry and consumers In addition to the ticket issued by the national development and Reform Commission, yesterday's "liar" in Fonterra's milk powder scandal finally came to a conclusion: not only Fonterra confirmed the eighth contaminated enterprise as Abbott to the Beijing Business Daily reporter, but Abbott's own interview reply to the Beijing Business Daily reporter also admitted that there were indeed recalled products, but repeatedly stressed that“ In the process of being involved in the Fonterra incident, Abbott gradually learned relevant information from Fonterra "The day before, Abbott also issued a statement emphasizing that" the enterprise that asked to hide information is definitely not us ", saying that all products supplied by the enterprise to the Chinese market did not use Fonterra problem raw materials In fact, this is not Abbott's first "drug-related", since it entered the Chinese market in 2002, Abbott's milk powder has been exposed for ten times in China, including the lubricating oil pollution with small iron particles in the production line of the exposed milk powder in 2002; in 2008, due to the poor sealing of the product at the factory, the milk powder in the tank was oxidized, and the baby had nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms; In the same year of melamine incident, Abbott was once again killed and so on "Whether it's the response to the anti-monopoly investigation or the information disclosure of drug-related products, Abbott's business in China has a common problem: it's not transparent and honest, which is also the most taboo problem for food producers." Wang dingmian, an expert in dairy industry, said that although for enterprises, once the problem is exposed, it will lead to consumer boycott and affect sales, but it is impossible to ask for concealment, which makes consumers more suspicious.