TY  - JOUR
T1  - Food Safety Issues in China: An Insight into the Dairy Sector
AU - Li, Chongguang AU - Ishaq, Muhammad AU - Ping, Qing 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 13
IS  - 12
SP  - 719
EP  - 727
PY  - 2014
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2014.719.727
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2014.719.727
KW  - trend and event analysis
KW  -dairy sector
KW  -melamine
KW  -Food safety
KW  -instantaneous
AB  - The frequent occurrence of food safety issues have tarnished 
  the made in China labeled product. Of these, the melamine incident of baby formula 
  milk powder jolted the growth of dairy sector in China. The results of pre and 
  post-melamine event analysis show that the melamine incident has statistically 
  significantly affected milk production, number of livestock and export and import 
  of cream and milk except import of concentrated and sweetened milk and cream. 
  The incident affected trust of consumers both in domestic and foreign countries 
  and resultantly the dairy industry incurred huge economic losses. The import 
  for concentrated and sweetened milk and cream has experienced the compound rate 
  of growth of -1.98%. However, a sky rocketing increase has been observed during 
  the post-melamine period with compound rate of growth of 99.77%. The import 
  for milk and cream neither concentrated nor sweetened has increased at the compound 
  rate of growth of 3.46% during the pre-melamine period while increasing at the 
  instantaneous rate of growth of 26.20% and compound rate of growth of 29.95%.
ER  - 