Australian Senator Calls for Limiting Unofficial Baby Formula Exports to End Shortage

Australian Senator Calls for Limiting Unofficial Baby Formula Exports to End Shortage
Australian Senator for Queensland Pauline Hanson on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, on Dec. 8, 2016. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
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The Australian government should limit unofficial baby formula exports to two tins per person to help ease product shortages in local retail stores, an Australian Senator has urged.

Senator Pauline Hanson, who leads the nationalist One Nation Party, said the ruling center-right Liberal-National Coalition should do more to protect the domestic baby formula supply from Chinese syndicates that capitalise on the 166 percent profit—more than A$80 ($57.30)—for each tin when on-sold in China.

Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
Editor/Reporter
Richard Szabo is an award-winning journalist with more than 12 years' experience in news writing at mainstream and niche media organizations. He has a specialty in business, tourism, hospitality, and healthcare reporting.
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