Wednesday, September 24, 2008

China's tainted milk.

Recently i read a new on China's tainted milk.I was shocked when I knew nearly about 12,900 number of children were sickened by the tainted milk.Then the government vowed to crack down on those responsible for the scandal ,which has raised new questions about the safety of the country's food chain.
The scandal has spread from the mainland as the Hong Kong government announced late Saturday a 3-year-old girl was diagnosed with a kidney stone after drinking milk from the Chinese dairy Yili that contained melamine, a compound used in making plastics and tanning leather. She was the first victim reported outside mainland China.
About 10 per cent of liquid milk samples taken from Mengniu Dairy Group Co. and Yili Industrial Group Co.,the China's two largest dairy producers was found contained melamine, according to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The milk from Shanghai-based Bright Dairy also showed contamination.
Other products such as milk, yogurt and ice cream went to Hong Kong, while Singapore's Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority, known as AVA, warned customers against eating Yili-brand Natural Choice Yogurt Flavoured Ice Bar with Real Fruit after Hong Kong food safety authorities said a sample of the product was found to contain low levels of melamine.
The government of Malaysia has banned dairy products imported from China including confectionary that contain milk as precaution after tainted milk scare.

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