China sees liberalised EU as fertile market for milk supplies

The sight of China's companies and even tourists buying up European baby milk products has given farmers a glimpse of what could be the export upside of an at times feared opening up of Europe's dairy market.

China's overseas quest for infant formula, the result of a deep distrust of domestic supply dating back to a deadly contamination scandal in 2008, has been embraced by Ireland as an outlet for the extra milk it plans to produce when the European Union scraps its 30-year-old limits on output in 2015.