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China Recalls 170 Tons of Poison Milk Powder

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:45:59 CST

Chinese officials have recalled some 170 tons of milk powder tainted with deadly melamine in the latest evidence that products from the last industrial scandal were repackaged and placed back on the market. The milk has been found in Shanghai and throughout 6 provinces. Hundreds of thousands were sickened and...

China Launches Emergency Sweep for Poison Milk

Rob Quinn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:07:33 CST

China has ordered an emergency sweep to seek out and destroy milk products tainted with melamine. Officials have ordered a full investigation of the latest milk scandal and promise offenders will be harshly punished, AP reports. Some companies are believed to have reused milk powder recalled after milk tainted with...

Tainted Chinese Milk Yanked From Shelves—Again

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:45:58 CST

In the latest consumer product scandal to hit China, authorities have ordered milk contaminated with toxic melamine yanked from market shelves. The recall occurs a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sickened by a similar contamination. Products in southern China from three companies were found to contain melamine....

China Kept Tainted Milk Scare Secret for Year

Rob Quinn — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 01:46:00 CST

China took nearly a year to close down a Shanghai dairy after authorities found contaminated milk in the latest melamine scare, according to state media. An investigation was launched several months ago, but it was kept secret until last week after the Shanghai Panda dairy was shut down and three...

China Recalls Milk in New Poison Scare

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:48:00 CST

China is recalling milk in a new melamine scare a year after thousands of infants were sickened by the poison that contaminated milk and infant formula. The recall so far is limited to products from a single Shanghai dairy. But it involves milk distributed throughout seven provinces amid renewed concerns...

China Executes Two Over Tainted Milk

Kevin Spak — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:05:30 CST

China put two people to death today for their role in the tainted milk scandal, but many Chinese feel betrayed that a third wasn’t executed. The executed men, dairy farmer Zhang Yujun and production base manager Geng Jinping, were relative unknowns. Popular rage has centered instead on Tian Wenhua, the...

China's Grieving Families Stand Up to Government

Matt Cantor — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:20:09 CDT

A new political force appears to be emerging in China—grieving parents. The government, usually quick to crack down on dissent, is giving greater leeway to families hit by recent crises such as the tainted-milk scandal and the Sichuan earthquake, the Washington Post reports. Parents have banded together to demand...

China Health Ministry: Food Security 'Grim'

Matt Cantor — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:27:31 CST

It’s been months since a tainted-milk scandal sickened 300,000 children, but “China’s food-security situation remains grim with high risks and contradictions,” the country’s health ministry said today. With an eye on improving the regulatory system that failed to contain the milk trouble, officials fast-tracked new food-safety laws over the...

3 Sentenced to Death in China Milk Scandal

Rob Quinn — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:49:25 CST

A Chinese court has sentenced three men to die for adulterating milk for profit and poisoning thousands, CNN reports. The former chairwoman of the milk company at the heart of the scandal that killed six infants and sickened 300,000 has been sentenced to life in prison. Other defendants, including...