While there are still no good reasons to trust milk powder producers in the Mainland since safety scandals broke out, Chinese parents are turning to parallel-goods traders to buy infant formula from Hong Kong.
But starting Friday, an amendment to the Hong Kong import and export law regulates that one person can only carry out two cans, or 1.8 kilos of baby formula. And that person must be at least 16 years of age and must not have left the city in the last 24 hours.
Offenders can be sentenced to two years in jail and could be fined up to 500 thousand Hong Kong dollars. After Mainlanders’ demand for milk powder increased following a string of scandals, Hong Kong residents have complained about the shortage of baby formula in stock, forcing the government to take action.