Contamination is not merely endemic in China's dairy products or exported chocolate bars. With melamine having been found in fish and eggs, foreign feed grains are being substituted in place of contaminated domestic feed materials.

After the hyperinflation of 2007 and deflation of 2008, China swine inventories, prices and profits are set to rebound. However, a slowing economy, fatter hogs and bigger farms mean that the market rally will be muted.