The Chinese Tainted Milk Scandal
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"This is very distressing for Chinese sales of food products of any kind. It may be milk here, but who knows what it could be later?"1 - Gary Hufbauer, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, in October 2008. "It is important to know if information was withheld, where and why it was withheld. Was it ignorance by provincial authorities or was it that they neglected to report it? Because if it was a ignorance, there is a need to have much better training and education ... if it is neglect, then it is, of course, more serious."2 - Hans Troedsson, Representative of World Health Organization in China, in September 2008.
The tainted milk scandal became public in August 2008 with the disclosure that the baby formula produced by Sanlu was contaminated with melamine, which caused kidney failure among the babies who consumed it. However, until the Chinese Health Ministry officially confirmed on September 12, 2008, that the milk powder produced by Sanlu was contaminated by melamine, neither the government nor the company took any initiative to warn the public. Later, government inspections revealed that the products of 21 other Chinese dairy firms were also contaminated with melamine. The Chinese Tainted Milk Scandal - Next Page>>
1] Michael Lelyveld, "China's Milk Scandal Shakes Investors,"http://www.rfa.org, October 07, 2008. |
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