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Starbucks has announced that it has selected Baxy as its new milk supplier because the milk products of its original milk supplier Mengniu were tainted by melamine. Li Jing, Starbuck Greater China's general manager for public relations, has stated that the company is using whole milk products produced by Baxy in its cafes in the North [...]

In response to the milk scandal in China, the international coffee shop chain Starbucks has stopped selling of all products that contain milk in its Chinese stores while launching new soymilk coffee products. After the milk products of Mengniu, the cooperative partner of Starbucks, were founded tainted by the chemical melamine, the cafe chain immediately stopped [...]

KFC and Starbucks have confirmed usage of products from dairies involved by China's contaminated milk crisis. Both companies issued statements confirming their outlets used products provided by Mengniu, one of China’s largest dairy suppliers, after melamine was found in some of its milk products.