China has
levied a record fine of 670m yuan ($109m; £71m) on six producers of infant
formula for price-fixing, state media say.
The six companies involved were Mead Johnson, Biostime, Dumex, Abbot, Friesland and Fonterra, it said.
The move follows an antitrust and anti-competition probe by authorities.
Consumers in China are willing to pay more for foreign brands after six children died from drinking tainted milk produced locally in 2008.
The fines, announced by China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, coincide with a separate pricing investigation into the pharmaceutical industry.
Five of the companies named in the probe are foreign while one, Biostime, is listed in Hong Kong.
US-based Mead Johnson, which makes the Enfamil formula, said it would pay $33m in penalties. Biostime said its local unit was fined $26.3m. Fonterra said it was fined $720,000.
According to Xinhua news agency, three companies - Wyeth, Beingmate and Meiji - avoided fines because they co-operated with the probe.
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