Toxic milk powder scandal hits China, again

[OhioChick]

Source: Economic Times of India

10 Jul 2010, 0212 hrs IST,AGENCIES

BEIJING: Chinese authorities seized 64 tonnes of milk powder and products laced with the same deadly toxic additive that sparked an uproar in 2008, officials and state media said, underscoring the persistence of food safety breaches.

Samples of milk powder found in northwest China’s Gansu and Qinghai provinces had levels of the chemical melamine up to 500 times the permitted limit, and suspected tainted powder also turned up in the country’s northeast, said a report from the Xinhua news agency on Friday.

As well seizing 38 tonnes of milk powder found with 500 times the limit, police in Qinghai seized 26 tonnes of dairy powder with lower amounts of melamine and 12 tonnes of finished products, an official in the Qinghai quality watchdog told Reuters. He would not give his name and did not specify the products.

The exposure of tainted milk products in a poor and remote parts of China’s northwest has underscored the persistence of food safety problems that have alarmed consumers and sparked criminal scandals that led to executions and official sackings.



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[jmowreader]

1. Apparently they didn't shoot enough people last time

The last time this shit happened they got the head of the plastics company who sold the melamine scrap to the milk company, and the man who put the melamine scrap into the milk, for six counts of homicide. You'd have thought two people being executed for killing people with poisoned milk would solve the problem, but obviously it did not.

[CountAllVotes]

4. no chance

Now that time has passed China figures that everyone has forgotten about these horrid evil acts of poisoning to save a few bucks.

I haven't for what that might be worth.

So, the killing goes on again in China where every cent counts. What difference does it make if a couple of million people die from contaminated milk and food? Seemingly none in China huh? :grr:

:kick:

[rfranklin]

5. The invisible hand of the free market will sort this out...

After a few thousand deaths.

[valerief]

2. If they want to execute someone over this, maybe we should offer up a BP exec. nt

[goodboy]

3. And the teabaggers want to do away with the socialist FDA..(nt)

[Hubert Flottz]

6. That dragon milk is some toxic stuff...

Comes from those short legged cows.