State to boost regulation of baby formula

China’s baby-formula makers must take on primary liability for their products’ safety, ensure product traceability and implement a product-recall system, the country’s State Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported. Under new regulations, formula producers must register their products and packaging with provincial food and drug administrators. China’s leaders have been cheering the rise of a homegrown dairy industry. They aim to rebuild consumer confidence after a 2008 scandal in which the industrial chemical melamine was added to domestic-made milk powder, killing six infants and causing 300,000 others to fall ill.