Chinese Company, Sanlu Group Co, Recalls Tainted Milk ... They knew for weeks

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Chinese Dairy Company knew for Weeks of Tainted Milk products before recall

The dairy products that were sold seem to be confined to Taiwan and not sold to other foreign markets. China hardly has instilled any confidence in anyone these days with their lack of oversight and control of their product quality. China just seems to be continuing with their practices as no one wants to crack down on them for shoddy exports.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080913/ap_on_re_as/china_baby_formula_recall

BEIJING - China's health minister blamed a dairy Saturday for the delay in warning the public about tainted milk powder linked to kidney stones in infants and at least one death, as authorities increased the number of known sick babies to 432.

The incident has been an embarrassing failure for China's product safety system, which was overhauled in an attempt to restore consumer confidence after a string of recalls and warnings around the world over tainted toothpaste, faulty tires and other Chinese-made goods.

Officials complained they were not alerted to the milk problem until Monday even though the product's maker, Sanlu Group Co., had received complaints as early as March and its tests found a banned chemical in the milk powder in August. The company ordered a recall Thursday.

Officials defended their response to the new latest product safety disaster. They said 19 people had been detained and 78 were being questioned about how the banned chemical melamine was added to milk sold to Sanlu, which is China's biggest producer of milk powder.

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432 babes sick from Chinese tainted milk product

BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese state news agency has reported that more than 430 babies have suffered from kidney stones from contaminated milk powder.

The news agency also reported that the dairy that made the milk powder has been ordered to stop production.

Xinhua said Saturday the number of sick babies across the country had risen to 432.

It said the Health Ministry had ordered Sanlu Group Co. to stop production

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Number of baby milk victims doubles
By Wu Jiao (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-09-16 07:

Contaminated milk food claimed its second victim with another infant's death coming to light Monday, as the number of babies diagnosed with kidney stones rose to 1,253.

Ministry of Health (MOH) Monday announcement more than doubled the earlier figure of 580 kids, who were diagnosed with kidney stones after being fed the adulterated Sanlu product.
Their number could rise further as the search for more infants fed Sanlu milk food spread across the country's rural areas.

The condition of 53 of the ailing kids is critical, and 340 of them have been admitted to hospital. The rest have either been treated in out-patient departments or outside hospitals, and some of them have recovered, Vice-Minister of Health Ma Xiaowei told a news conference.

Both the deaths were reported from Gansu province: a 5-month-old boy died in May and an 8-month-old girl in July.
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/16/content_7029151.htm

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Probe finds 20 percent of China milk companies in scandal

SHIJIAZHUANG, China (Reuters) - Twenty percent of Chinese dairy firms probed in the wake of a baby milk health scare have been found to have produced melamine-tainted formula, state media reported on Tuesday.
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