date:Mar 05, 2013
x of traders who buy milk powder in Hong Kong and resell it on the mainland for a profit, mainly to families who have no faith in mainland-produced infant formula.
Many Hong Kong residents complained about formula shortages because of that trade.
Lam Xiu-ling, 31, a teaching assistant at a primary school, from Fanling in the New Territories of Hong Kong, says her year-old son goes through a can in five days.
She said the formula shortage was once so acute that it took her two days to find a st