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About 30,000 tins of baby formula is shipped from Australia to China each day
Demand for Australian baby formula has been high with 'daigou shoppers'
Coles and Woolworths both have a two-tin baby formula limit for customers

By Kelsey Wilkie For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 23:23 EST, 2 December 2018 | Updated: 23:23 EST, 2 December 2018

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Shocking figures show baby formula tins are leaving Australian shores at alarming rates as Chinese buyers snap up the supply to sell at a premium back home.

Hunger for trusted Australian branded baby formula has skyrocketed due to the popularity of Asian shoppers, known as daigous, buying in bulk to sell for a profit online to China.

Experts claim a whopping 30,000 tins of baby formula are being shipped to China each day, leaving Australian mothers desperately searching for their own supply.

Shocking figures show highly-sought after baby formula tins are leaving Australian shores at alarming rates as Chinese buyers snap up the supply

Despite both Woolworths and Coles having two-tin limits per customer, foreign shoppers have been repeatedly filmed flouting the rules to buy bulk amounts of formula.

Last week frantic shoppers were filmed sprinting in and out of an Adelaide Woolworths, stashing tins of baby formula in small trolleys hidden outside before running back inside for more.

There are an estimated 400,000 Chinese shoppers buying products in Australia.

Daigou shoppers have caused a frenzy across Australia, footage reveals the chaos that ensues across the country when baby formula tins are delivered

Experts claim a whopping 30,000 tins of baby formula are being shipped to China each day, leaving Australian mother's desperately searching

Livia Wang, the Director of Access CN, a Chinese export company that acts as a link between Australian-based shoppers and buyers in China, told 9 News the volume of packages being sent to China was staggering.

'You would be quite amazed. That would be around 20 to 30,000 parcels minimum per day sending out from Australia and New Zealand to China.'

Demand for Australian formula has skyrocketed after an estimated 54,000 Chinese babies were hospitalised in 2008 due to contaminated Chinese formula.

Some international shoppers are happy to pay prices marked up to 1000 per cent, so sought after is the high-quality milk powder.