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Abreast of the melamine milk scandal

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Yesterday, The China Daily reported that the melamine tainted milk scandal gas widened beyond the Sanlu brand to include some of the industry's biggest names in China:

Till Monday, only Sanlu products were found with melamine, but tests conducted over the past week showed that 69 of the 491 batches were contaminated, said the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ)...

...Apart from Hebei-based Sanlu Group, the firms whose products are contaminated include such dairy giants as the Yili and Mengniu groups, both based in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Shanghai-based Bright Dairy...

...The Guangdong-based Yashili Group is the only tainted firm to have exported some products to Bangladesh, Yemen and Myanmar, the report said. But tests on the export batch samples found no melamine.

The death toll so far from melamine tainted milk is 3, with 6,244 babies sickened. The scandal has caused some anguish on the Chinese Internet. Here are a few translated comments to a post titled 'Do you accept Sanlu's apology?' on the popular Tianya forum:

sherron84: I don't know how much money the scapegoat took...

Wangming Sanmao: This is a classic performance by government officials and businessmen. The end result will be that the government pays money, peasants go to jail, the companies resume their business, the people who pay tax foot the bill, and children get to endure hardship.

beilangX: Don't fucking treat us as a silent majority!

First chicken then egg: Boycott Chinese products!

Mingyue Guangbai: How are we supposed to support Chinese products if they are like this!

billow631: Lock up Sanlu's leaders. Don't give them anything to eat except their own milk powder.

The government have started to act on that last suggestion. Xinhua reported last night that several more arrests have been made of government officials and other people responsible for the crisis, including Tian Wenhua, former board chairwoman and general manager of Sanlu Group who was fired by the company on Tuesday this week.

Meanwhile, the author of a Tianya post titled 'In the midst of the powdered milk scandal, a deficiency of breast milk', apparently a young mother, argues that Chinese women should be encouraged to breast feed rather than give their babies formulae.

Oddly enough, at the end of August, the Southern Daily published an article on this issue headlined '9 out of 10 new mothers don't have enough breast milk' (translated at the Danwei link below).

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I recall seeing a woman on TV last night saying "what else am I supposed to feed my baby?" "Why not breastmilk?" I thought, though the article previously noted by Danwei indicates that's a less viable option for some women.

cheesy headline man

This is an abomination by a network of corrupt and inactive cadres, greedy businessmen and liars, the lack of conscience is beyond redemption, ignorance, stupidity, shame, disgust, absurdity, everything belong to human's evil side has cherished.

A type of punishment in Qing dynasty has the convict chopped into pieces ALIVE, if Satan can come down here and apply this treatment to those who contributed even remotely to the children's suffering, I'd gladly welcome him.

Niu Gensheng, not Meng Gensheng

[EDITOR'S NOTE: corrected, thanks]

I had not been keeping abreast of the melamine scandal until this article's headline milked it for all that its worth.

The image of responsible corporate and local government officials being force fed Sanlu's tainted milk in baby bottles is a titillating tactic for punishment in my opinion.

朋友从QQ上发给我的:

中国人在食品中完成了化学扫盲
从大米里我们认识了石蜡
从火腿里我们认识了敌敌畏
从咸鸭蛋、辣椒酱里我们认识了苏丹红
从火锅里我们认识了福尔马林
从银耳、蜜枣里我们认识了硫磺
从木耳中认识了硫酸铜
今天三鹿又让同胞知道了三聚氰胺的化学作用

外国人喝牛奶结实了
中国人喝牛奶结石了
日本人口号:一天一杯牛奶振兴一个民族
中国人口号:一天一杯牛奶,震惊一个民族
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还有什么好说的呢?!!!

wtf “有我中国强” means? To use kidney stones to create another 中国墙?

Everybody expressing their points here might not be technically aware of the following:
-Melamine is a metabolite of cyromazine, a pesticide.
-It is formed in the body of mammals (for example cows producing milk) who have ingested cyromazine.
-Cyromazine can be converted to melamine also in plants (that in turn are eaten by the cows).
-Mayebe is another exaple of how polluted chinese countrysides are ... and the level of generalized irresponsibility affecting a bit everybody .... guys you are little bit to careless... shame...This is another beautiful show about China, no further comments are needed .... It is all a facade and just face ...

奶粉﹐乳品都要懷疑﹔豆漿呢﹖

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