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China Contaminated Milk Scandal Widens
by Dave Keating | September 17, 2008 at 03:05 am | 479 views | 7 comments | 34 recommendations
The contaminated baby milk scandal in China has widened, with a third infant having died from the milk, which was treated with a lethal chemical to make it pass health inspections. Several dairy farmers and processors have been arrested, and they could face the death penalty.
A third infant has died in China from contaminated milk and more than 6,000 made sick. The scandal has forced nationwide recalls of milk products by China's top dairy producers, including some exported to five countries. Daniel Schearf reports from Beijing.
China's Health Minister Chen Zhu on Wednesday said there are now 6,244 reported cases of infants made sick and, among those, three have died from drinking tainted milk formula.
Speaking at a news briefing broadcast live on national television, he said the numbers could go up as more parents take their children to hospitals.
September 17, 2008 at 03:05 am by Dave Keating, 479 views, 7 comments
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at 05:30 on September 17th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 05:53 on September 17th, 2008
Here's a link to the story I did a few days ago you could have refered to this as well.
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/fda-dont-use-chinese-infant-formula-due-melamine-risk
at 08:56 on September 17th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff. It's a worrying story. But there are quite a few things that get badly made in China. My friend in Sri Lanka can only buy Chinese tools and he says they are not as good as European (more expensive) ones and that Chinese nails are useless since they are too soft. But also the environmental checks in China don't seem to be good enough. Mind you, in the British industrial revolution, all sorts of poisons got added to food for working class people! So what else is new?
at 14:07 on September 17th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff. Well since we are self promoting, Here is a March 29, 2008 article China Blames US for Tainted Dairy Products, 100 children Sick
at 07:00 on September 18th, 2008
Somebody has to do it! When you write a story post it a day later somebody else writes the same story gets hits? Yep I'm going to promote as much as I can thank you.
at 07:02 on September 18th, 2008
And another thing.......
at 12:44 on September 18th, 2008
I've created a "Milk Scandal" sub-nav within the Health channel in order to make some sense of these updates. Hopefully directing all related stories to once place will reduce redundancies.