When Spoiled Milk Spilled Over

Zonning system eased for school milk

A Cabinet decision yesterday gave a major boost to milk suppliers who, regardless of their facilities' location, are now welcome to participate in the school-milk project.

Foremost plans to double UHT capacity

Friesland Foods Foremost (Thailand) hopes to persuade Thais to drink more milk as it invests more than Bt1 billion to double the capacity of its ready-to-drink UHT products to 2 billion packs a year./10/03/2009

Special Report: Govt to provide free milk to all primary students

Project extended to 260 days a year to tackle the oversupply problem In a bid to solve the problem of oversupply of milk in the market, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday announced a plan to provide free milk to all primary students 260 days a year./09/03/2009

Suppliers will be hit by decision

Most of the firms supplying to the school-milk programme will be affected if the Cabinet decides this week to increase the proportion of UHT milk in the programme, as they only produce pasteurised milk, industry figures said. /09/03/2009

UHT milk won't tackle root of the problem

The Cabinet will decide tomorrow whether to raise the proportion of UHT milk supplied to the school-milk project, which entails Bt8 billion per annum of taxpayers' money, as well as whether to scrap the zoning supply system./09/03/2000

FDA opposes increasing UHT ratio

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cautioned against a proposal to increase the ratio of UHT milk in the schoolmilk project./06/03/2009

Zoning system faces the axe

The government will consider scrapping the zoning system for its Bt8-billion-a-year free milk programme for public schools around the country to eliminate long-running corruption concerns./06/03/2009

Milk deal turns sour

A local administrative organisation in Chai Nat province yesterday threatened to cancel its purchase contract with a milk supplier./21/02/2009