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Shop shelves in China and elsewhere are being cleared of popular dairy products after tests found contamination in regular milk as well as baby formula.

Inspectors found that 10% of liquid milk from three of China's dairies was tainted with melamine.

Singapore banned the import and sale of all Chinese milk products after some were removed from stores in Hong Kong.

The scandal first came to light in milk powder that killed four infants and sickened more than 6,000 others.

Suppliers are suspected of diluting milk to cut costs, then adding melamine to make it appear higher in protein.

Melamine is an industrial chemical normally used in plastics, and is banned from food stuffs. BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Mass recall of China milk produce
Our friends the Chinese are having more problems.
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Our friends the Chinese are having more problems.
We can expect some heads to roll... literally, . I wonder if they did that here, it would be interesting to hear all those investment bankers got sent to death row,
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We can expect some heads to roll... literally, . I wonder if they did that here, it would be interesting to hear all those investment bankers got sent to death row,
Seriously, though the Chinese don't mess around when it comes to capitol punishment. I asked my daughter who used to live near Beijing, about a case of a convicted murderer. She quickly replied "Oh, they'll kill him." I said-you really think so? She said they don't drag it out over there if a person is convicted of a capitol crime it's curtains.

I doubt we will see any convictions over this bail out mess. It's like the drug trafficking-too may politicians involved to have a real house cleaning.
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Seriously, though the Chinese don't mess around when it comes to capitol punishment. I asked my daughter who used to live near Beijing, about a case of a convicted murderer. She quickly replied "Oh, they'll kill him." I said-you really think so? She said they don't drag it out over there if a person is convicted of a capitol crime it's curtains.

I doubt we will see any convictions over this bail out mess. It's like the drug trafficking-too may politicians involved to have a real house cleaning.
Nope, they don't play...

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They don't play WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT...

I have a feeling China looks they other way when a company of theirs does something "less than moral" and gets away with it...

But when it's found out, they'll play judge and jury and get rid of those that did so to make themselves look better...
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China's product safety watchdog steps down

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BEIJING - The head of China's food safety watchdog resigned Monday for failing to stop the widespread contamination of baby formula as the number of children sickened in the scandal soared to nearly 53,000, including four infants who died.
The shake-up came as investigators revealed that China's biggest producer of powdered milk, Sanlu Group Co., had received complaints as early as December 2007 linking its infant formula to illnesses in babies. Months later, tests revealed the milk was tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, which causes kidney stones and can lead to kidney failure.

The ministry did not explain the sudden increase in the number of cases but it suggested health officials were combing through hospital records from May through August to trace the origins of the contamination

In a reflection of the breakdown in supervision of the dairy industry, Sanlu and several other leading companies embroiled in the scandal had been given inspection-free status by the food safety watchdog.

The resignation of Li Changjiang, who headed the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine since 2001, comes a year after he and the government promised to overhaul the system in response to a series of product safety scares.
New regulations and procedures were introduced in an attempt to restore consumer confidence and preserve export markets after a string of recalls involving tainted toothpaste, faulty tires, contaminated seafood and in March 2007, pet food containing melamine that was blamed for the deaths of dogs and cats in the United States.

In an indication of Beijing's determination to improve product safety, the government in July 2007 executed the disgraced chief of China's food and drug agency, who was convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for letting fake medicine into the domestic market. China's product safety watchdog steps down - Yahoo! News
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