Article from March 1o, 2008:
MADISON, N.J. — Wyeth has announced that it is investing $280 million to build a state-of-the-art nutritional manufacturing facility in Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, China. The new facility will primarily produce infant formula milk powder and other nutritional products.
MADISON, N.J. — Wyeth has announced that it is investing $280 million to build a state-of-the-art nutritional manufacturing facility in Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, China. The new facility will primarily produce infant formula milk powder and other nutritional products.
When completed, the site will be one of the world's largest nutritional manufacturing facilities.
Construction at the site started this month, and the plant is scheduled to be operational by late 2010. At full operation, the plant is expected to employ about 500 employees. Products made at this facility will primarily supply the local market.Two short comments:
1 -- Baby formula --> Yikes!
2 -- Primarily supply the local market --> Is any of the product going to be consumed in the US?
1 comment:
This is very yikes!
First: we don't need pharmaceutical companies making food for infants when the majority of women can easily make the perfect food for their babies. Mother Nature, indeed, does know best.
Second: we really don't need Wyeth to place its infant food manufacturing in a country that has recently been identified as creating poisonous toys, tooth paste, other toiletries, etc.
Lastly: feeding children is not a commodity, nor a matter of consumerism. I'd like to see the money put into making infant formula in China rerouted into educating everyone on the superior quality of breastmilk. If corporations could put a price on that, I would have made millions when I was feeding my babies.
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