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China food scandal
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China says dairy firm knew of toxic milk for months
BEIJING (AFP) - - The Chinese company whose tainted baby milk triggered a food safety crisis that has seen 53,000 children fall ill failed to report complaints about the product for months, state media said Tuesday.
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"In the eight months from December 2007 to August 2, 2008, Sanlu made no report to relevant authorities in Shijiazhuang and took no corrective measures, allowing the situation to worsen further," the report on state-run CCTV's news channel said, quoting the cabinet probe.
The report appeared to be the first official admission that news of the health risks was deliberately suppressed. Reports of tainted milk only emerged in state-run media earlier this month. The chemical melamine, normally used in making plastics, was apparently added to milk supplies to give the appearance of higher protein levels. Sanlu Group did not begin testing its milk for dangerous substances until June, the cabinet probe reportedly found. The government has blamed tainted products for four deaths, and said Sunday that nearly 13,000 children remained hospitalised with kidney stones or other problems, 104 of them in serious condition. With several countries slapping bans on Chinese dairy-based products, the government announced new steps to limit the fallout from the latest safety scare to tarnish the nation's exports.
The commerce ministry ordered tighter quality checks on export goods such as food, drugs, toys and furniture products, the official Xinhua news agency said. The agriculture ministry ordered its departments to use "severe discipline" in stepping up supervision of milk brokers blamed for adding the chemical. "Departments at all levels must ... put these milk collectors in order and strengthen supervision. The mission must be completed to the letter," Minister Sun Zhengcai said in comments posted on the ministry's website.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong authorities reported Tuesday two more children have fallen ill in the city with kidney stones after drinking Chinese dairy products, taking the sick total there to four. A dozen Asian and African countries have either barred Chinese milk products or taken some other form of action to curb consumption. "What we are telling parents now, especially the mothers, is to avoid buying milk with 'made in China' markings," said Leticia Gutierrez, the head of the Bureau of Food and Drugs in the Philippines.
She spoke after announcing a ban on the import and sale of Chinese milk products. Malaysia on Tuesday widened an earlier ban to include candies, chocolates and all Chinese-made food containing milk, a top official said.
Vietnam and Bangladesh also took new measures to ban imports of Chinese dairy products and warn consumers against using such products still on store shelves.
In Japan, a petition by the country's regional governors urged the central government to suspend imports of all Chinese dairy products, saying "people's distrust is growing over food made in China." The scandal forced the resignation Monday of China's product-safety watchdog chief, Li Changjiang, whose tenure coincided with a wave of recent safety scandals involving food, drugs, toys and other goods, many of them exported. Also sacked was Wu Xianguo, the top Communist official in Shijiazhuang. The city's mayor and several other government officials had been fired earlier. Eighteen people have been arrested so far, including the sacked head of Sanlu Group, and dozens detained for questioning, according to state media.
Although Sanlu was the first company embroiled in the scandal, subsequent government tests found melamine in the products of 22 other Chinese dairy manufacturers. Investors on Tuesday punished the shares of top Chinese dairy makers that were implicated, with Mengniu Dairy falling more than 60 percent in trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange. In Shanghai, shares of Yili Industrial and Guangming Dairy and Food plunged the maximum 10 percent trading limit.
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BEIJING (AFP) - - The Chinese company whose tainted baby milk triggered a food safety crisis that has seen 53,000 children fall ill failed to report complaints about the product for months, state media said Tuesday.
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"In the eight months from December 2007 to August 2, 2008, Sanlu made no report to relevant authorities in Shijiazhuang and took no corrective measures, allowing the situation to worsen further," the report on state-run CCTV's news channel said, quoting the cabinet probe.
The report appeared to be the first official admission that news of the health risks was deliberately suppressed. Reports of tainted milk only emerged in state-run media earlier this month. The chemical melamine, normally used in making plastics, was apparently added to milk supplies to give the appearance of higher protein levels. Sanlu Group did not begin testing its milk for dangerous substances until June, the cabinet probe reportedly found. The government has blamed tainted products for four deaths, and said Sunday that nearly 13,000 children remained hospitalised with kidney stones or other problems, 104 of them in serious condition. With several countries slapping bans on Chinese dairy-based products, the government announced new steps to limit the fallout from the latest safety scare to tarnish the nation's exports.
The commerce ministry ordered tighter quality checks on export goods such as food, drugs, toys and furniture products, the official Xinhua news agency said. The agriculture ministry ordered its departments to use "severe discipline" in stepping up supervision of milk brokers blamed for adding the chemical. "Departments at all levels must ... put these milk collectors in order and strengthen supervision. The mission must be completed to the letter," Minister Sun Zhengcai said in comments posted on the ministry's website.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong authorities reported Tuesday two more children have fallen ill in the city with kidney stones after drinking Chinese dairy products, taking the sick total there to four. A dozen Asian and African countries have either barred Chinese milk products or taken some other form of action to curb consumption. "What we are telling parents now, especially the mothers, is to avoid buying milk with 'made in China' markings," said Leticia Gutierrez, the head of the Bureau of Food and Drugs in the Philippines.
She spoke after announcing a ban on the import and sale of Chinese milk products. Malaysia on Tuesday widened an earlier ban to include candies, chocolates and all Chinese-made food containing milk, a top official said.
Vietnam and Bangladesh also took new measures to ban imports of Chinese dairy products and warn consumers against using such products still on store shelves.
In Japan, a petition by the country's regional governors urged the central government to suspend imports of all Chinese dairy products, saying "people's distrust is growing over food made in China." The scandal forced the resignation Monday of China's product-safety watchdog chief, Li Changjiang, whose tenure coincided with a wave of recent safety scandals involving food, drugs, toys and other goods, many of them exported. Also sacked was Wu Xianguo, the top Communist official in Shijiazhuang. The city's mayor and several other government officials had been fired earlier. Eighteen people have been arrested so far, including the sacked head of Sanlu Group, and dozens detained for questioning, according to state media.
Although Sanlu was the first company embroiled in the scandal, subsequent government tests found melamine in the products of 22 other Chinese dairy manufacturers. Investors on Tuesday punished the shares of top Chinese dairy makers that were implicated, with Mengniu Dairy falling more than 60 percent in trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange. In Shanghai, shares of Yili Industrial and Guangming Dairy and Food plunged the maximum 10 percent trading limit.
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This is a global food war! This is not the first time that China had launched such a food war! It's terrible!
WTF reply from AVA.
No one understand the effects of Melanmine. But AVA spin doctors is telling sinkapooreans that
" But tests also revealed that consumers, including children, would have to eat huge amounts of the dairy products to suffer any ill effects, Dr Chua said.
For example, a child would have to consume 24 pieces of White Rabbit candy, 408ml of the strawberry milk or four ice bars every day for life before developing melamine-related health problems.
Dr Chua said: 'It's not likely that anybody would be consuming these products at this kind of level every day, all his life.' "
WTF is this. 2 Hong Kong kids already got kidney stones consuming regular amount of the tainted milk products. And since when AVA become foremost authority on drug interactions. The best doctors in the world aren't sure how panadol or Vitamin C works. Anyone know the doctors at AVA get their MBBS from? Not University of Hebei I hope.
Poisonings scare like this are going to happen again. The next time in Sinkapoor. To clue the sleepy heads in AVA. Better stop the sale of prayer oil now. They are sold in similar plastic bottles. Matter of time some chinamen going to adulterate cooking oils with prayer oil and serve us fried mee hoon with that. When that happens, AVA is going to say ingesting prayer oil makes us holier for life.
No one understand the effects of Melanmine. But AVA spin doctors is telling sinkapooreans that
" But tests also revealed that consumers, including children, would have to eat huge amounts of the dairy products to suffer any ill effects, Dr Chua said.
For example, a child would have to consume 24 pieces of White Rabbit candy, 408ml of the strawberry milk or four ice bars every day for life before developing melamine-related health problems.
Dr Chua said: 'It's not likely that anybody would be consuming these products at this kind of level every day, all his life.' "
WTF is this. 2 Hong Kong kids already got kidney stones consuming regular amount of the tainted milk products. And since when AVA become foremost authority on drug interactions. The best doctors in the world aren't sure how panadol or Vitamin C works. Anyone know the doctors at AVA get their MBBS from? Not University of Hebei I hope.
Poisonings scare like this are going to happen again. The next time in Sinkapoor. To clue the sleepy heads in AVA. Better stop the sale of prayer oil now. They are sold in similar plastic bottles. Matter of time some chinamen going to adulterate cooking oils with prayer oil and serve us fried mee hoon with that. When that happens, AVA is going to say ingesting prayer oil makes us holier for life.
Death penalty for the wrongdoers.
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