While last year's quality problems in China with toys and some other consumer products created awareness among western consumers and companies importing from China - no significant move in the importers' habits happened as a result of this - it seems that the toxic milk scandal occurred a few weeks ago is finally leading to shifts in common practices, both in China and Western countries.
Indeed, while the China Government is leading their programme of quality control certification across a myriad of industries, the world's biggest importer of Chinese goods Wal-Mart has just fired 180 staff from their Chinese sourcing offices, and appointed a third party company for all their QC in China.
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