Re: Shanghai dairy shut down after melamine scare

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How can we find out if any of this factory's products have made it to the US?Toni Sent from my iPhoneNmidaughterseyes@...On Jan 3, 2010, at 1:27 AM, "libertymtn" wrote:

Do you remember me mentioning not long ago about milk protein being imported from China by companies such as Kraft to make our cheese, etc. and raising the melamine question....while also wondering why our own dairymen are being told we have "too much milk" and that's why their milk prices are so low? And oh, it's ok for Americans to consume milk products with Chinese ingredients with poison in it but not our own raw milk products from our next door neighbor... it's just insane. Anita in Arkansas

Shanghai dairy shut after melamine scare:

Sat Jan 2, 4:29 am ET

BEIJING (Reuters) – A Shanghai dairy has been closed and three of its executives arrested for selling milk powder tainted with melamine, the industrial chemical responsible for the death of six children in 2008, Xinhua news agency reported.

Xinhua said powder and flavoring products sold by the Shanghai Panda Dairy Company were found to contain illegally high traces of the toxic chemical, which is rich in nitrogen and enables producers to foil mandatory protein content tests.

The company's warehouses were sealed off and authorities were currently overseeing the recall of the company's products from seven other regions, Xinhua reported on Thursday.

In 2008, six children died and another 300,000 took ill after drinking melamine-tainted milk in a scandal that culminated in the bankruptcy of state-owned dairy Sanlu and the execution of two people.

The scandal, one of a series incidents which sparked product safety scares, stoked widespread public anger and forced the resignation of China's top food safety official, Li Changjiang.

Early last month, three people were detained in northwest China's Shaanxi province after being accused of selling 5.25 tonnes of milk powder laced with melamine,

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