Contaminated Milk Powder may affect up to 50000 bb

[Apollo]

http://voanews.com/english/2008-09-13-voa26.cfm

 

China Detains 19 After 432 Babies Poisoned by Contaminated Milk Powder By VOA News

13 September 2008

 

 

Chinese authorities say they have detained 19 people after at least 432 babies developed kidney stones blamed on contaminated milk powder.

 

A senior Health Ministry official told reporters Saturday that authorities ordered the Sanlu Group, which produced the contaminated milk powder, to stop production.

 

China's official Xinhua news agency said police are questioning 78 suspects in the city of Shijiazhuang, where Sanlu is based.

 

Investigators say dairy farmers may have added a dangerous chemical to milk linked to one infant death and the other illnesses.

 

Xinhua said Friday that investigators suspect farmers added the chemical to conceal that water added to the milk. The chemical melamine would make the milk appear to have a higher protein content.

 

An official who is part of the nationwide probe said Friday that those responsible for the contamination will face severe punishment.

 

The company blamed its suppliers for the contamination. But a Chinese media report on Friday said Sanlu knew about the problem in August and decided not to inform the public.

 

Sanlu waited until it became the target of a government investigation to announce that it found melamine in its products. The company issued a recall on Thursday for about 700 tons of baby formula produced before August 6th.

 

Sanlu is a leading maker of dairy products and is partly owned by New Zealand company Fonterra. Reports say some of the products could have made their way into overseas markets.

 

Melamine is used in plastics, fertilizers and flame retardants.

Some information for this report provided by AP.

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better play safe dun let ur bb drink any bovine milk fr china.

 

[Iziz]

Donno wad e hell is wrong with this ppl!!! Wan to earn money also dun sabo ppl health lar! Baby somemore!

[Avatarlow]

this is not the first time and won't be the last.....

[Nighthawkcity]

all we can ever hope is..... its contained in China

[Apollo]

notice the root cause is with farmers not the milk producer. so any form of milk spect.fr there is a suspect.

 

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[Wt_know]

1. china is the world's factory. 7/10 (or at least > 5) products were made in China

 

2. product can be exported to another country for further 'processing' and re-brand to another brand especially working out the FTA loop hole

 

3. can we live without products made from China ?

Edited September 14, 2008 by Wt_know

[Cheekg98]

some of the pple in china are so desperate for money until they have no ethics ... at least the angmos are better in this area ....

[Apollo]

np can trust bovine milk fr abbott!

[Apollo]

jippun & taiwan also beri desperate one.

 

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hqe-Wd...jjk8lb851iaubLQ

[Scion]

blame the cultural revolution!

most traditions, cutlture and ethics in china have lost since and will take generations to rebuild again...

[Vroomtattat]

Donno wad e hell is wrong with this ppl!!! Wan to earn money also dun sabo ppl health lar! Baby somemore!

 

If I'm the judge, I'll sentence these beasts to drink the frickin' milk till they die

[Beei]

My friends from China said they know which brand is good, which brand no good.. But look like the source, dunno from where..

Our milk powder source from the country where cows is equal to Singaporean right?? Right??

[Wt_know]

today i went to NTUC to stock up groceries. the 1st thing i look out for is Made in XXX or Product of XXX. some can I see at least 3 destinations (made for/by, product of/from, made under the license of, imported/packaged, etc). there is less and less product that is produced "totally" from a-single-country, that's for sure. ie: most of japanese/korean processed food or tidbits that we got from supermarket, most likely are made in china !

Edited September 14, 2008 by Wt_know

[Powerhouse]

Yeah! Parade those bxxxxxds and make sure they also develop kidney stones. Hope they have really bad ending.!!!

[Peqasus]

actually europe side is starting to look at due diligence and responsibility for each company along the value chain meaning ea company has to be accountable for wat comes in wat goes out. Such system better know as traceability systems are picking up overseas but not in sg.

[Hub_n_mona]

They should be shot..

can the prosecutors spin the argument that they are messing about with the country's future leaders?? Guo Jia De Dong Liang

shaky and unhealthy foundations

[Ahdi]

these are all retribution. i always believe that the people there haf to be responsible for what they have done.

 

during the 512 Sichuan earthquake, schools, houses fell. kids were buried alive, parents lost their hopes, kids become orphan. who built the houses and school?, their parents, their grandparents....

 

for the milk powder case, kids developed kidney stone, who made he milk powder, their parents, their grandparents.

 

They take the short-cut way, make poisonous milk powder, make lousy schools. In the end, who is the one suffering, THEMSELVES.

 

I cannot imagine if this really happen in sillypore. we are employing more n more PRCs workers.who do things the chort-cut way. what if they bring in their culture, which they already did, cycling around our roads in all directions. and dun forget, now a lot of coffee shop stalls are run by them also.

[Maxus-MIFA9]

some of the pple in china are so desperate for money until they have no ethics ... at least the angmos are better in this area ....

 

They have very poor or no quality control at all.......

 

look at thier rivers, so conteminate that their 'can' Black Beans Pearl's River fish was once banned from selling at supermaeket.......

 

at one stage, their luncheon meat .......