What do milk products and politics have in common? *Gasps*

[mistysakura]

1) How has this scandal affected your area?
It has infiltrated the newspapers every day! Squee! (Give me my news back...) I haven't checked, but I'd say the White Rabbit lollies are gone from all the Asian groceries now.
2) your daily supermarket shopping activities?
None. I love my Australian milk.
3) If so, what steps is your local mart doing to prevent these tainted goods from being bought?
I have no idea. I think everything's being withheld, naturally. Possibly voluntary returns? Everyone else also loves their Aussie milk, so I can't imagine there being much to return, and the Asian groceries are hardly going to be organised enough to do returns.
4) What milk products that you have been consuming on a daily basis and got banned recently because of this incident?
None.
5) What other 'Made- in- China' products do you have in your current possession and you hope that it wouldn't get spoiled?
Most things I own are Made in China. I've given up on hoping.
6) Has this incident made you lose your faith in Chinese manufactured products?
I never had faith. I just dodge the products as the media releases come out, and hope for the best in other cases. You can't stop consuming Chinese products altogether. Most of the time, the products will only have adverse effects when consumed in extreme quantities anyway (like babies consume milk... sigh...)

Okay, since I also live in Hong Kong part of the time, I'll re-answer some of these questions to reflect my other life.

1) How has this scandal affected your area?
Oh, I'd say we're pretty screwed. Although most milk in supermarkets is local, we have no idea where restaurants and stuff source their milk from.
2) your daily supermarket shopping activities?
I actually drink Mengniu sometimes. It tastes good. Even with melamine in it. Needless to say, I won't be drinking it any more, but it's a shame.
3) If so, what steps is your local mart doing to prevent these tainted goods from being bought?
Recalls everywhere! They're very efficient.

Really, I don't think I'll ever stop buying Made in China products. It may be naive, but as said before they're only really harmful in extreme amounts, you can't avoid them, and products from other countries are not necessarily safer (even Japanese food which is supposedly so safe has been discovered to use expired ingredients and things like that. And we don't want to examine the contents of KFC gravy.) Also, being from Hong Kong, we get news of 'interesting' products all the time. Soy sauce made from hair, fake eggs (god is it that much chepaer than feeding a chicken???), bleached vermicelli, and of course the fake milk powder from 2002... this is just another to add to the pile.

"Is the government actually doing something besides compensating all those affected by it?" Yeah, sure, censorship and distractions like space explorations. (Also, changing legislation so even major brands will have to be regularly tested.)

[Drago]

1) How has this scandal affected your area?
It has infiltrated the newspapers every day! Squee! (Give me my news back...)

Further evidence that I actually don't take in any news information that isn't related to North American sports. I hadn't even heard about this until reading it now. Crikey, I hadn't even realised that Rob Guest had died a couple days ago and I'm a big fan of Wicked. For that matter, Jim Varney was dead for an entire year before I heard about it.
But I digress. Heavily. I assume that the 'foreign goods' section of my local supermarket has gotten a big shake-up especially, but I haven't noted anything particularly substantial of mine that's gotten affected.

2) your daily supermarket shopping activities?
Apparently it hasn't at all yet. Stay tuned, perhaps I'm a fan of some obscure Chinese snack I wasn't yet even aware of.

3) If so, what steps is your local mart doing to prevent these tainted goods from being bought?
They must be doing a damn good job because I haven't bought anything Chinese since! (or indeed, beforehand)

4) What milk products that you have been consuming on a daily basis and got banned recently because of this incident?
We've got Australian milk made by Australian farmers who have Australian cows whose proud future is either to make Australian milk or Australian McDonalds patties. Bless them.

5) What other 'Made- in- China' products do you have in your current possession and you hope that it wouldn't get spoiled?
I'm tempted to scour every object I have to see where it's made, but it'd be more a matter of interest than anything else. I'm personally under the belief that most things I have around here are Australian-made. Aussies are big on their local goods, and I'm big on getting cheaper products. I assume I've got some hardware around here manufactured in China, though.

6) Has this incident made you lose your faith in Chinese manufactured products?
It has, but it will not make a lick of difference to my shopping patterns. If I ever in fact note which country a product was made in, it's moreso on the off chance I look at the bottom of it some two years after purchase. And again, it's more a matter of interest than anything else. ...Say, the box for my Norton security says it was made in Singapore. Just a fun discovery for me.
Though this ink cartridge was remanufactured in China... If it goes wrong, I'm going to assume it's China's fault now.