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China aware of tainted milk since December 2007, says report
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A veteran Filipino journalist based in China said that the melamine milk scandal was already known to some Chinese officials as early as December last year but failed to report it to higher authorities because of the Beijing Olympics games last August.
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Richard Suttmeier, a University of Oregon expert on Chinese product safety, said, ”Central regulatory reform is only part of the problem. There are more individual producers than the government could ever regulate.”
According to official figures, China has nearly half a million food producing and processing companies.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0917/p01s03-woap.
Not only did Sanlu fail to detect the melamine in its milk powder, the company has also so far failed to explain why it did not publicly reveal the problem until Sept. 11, although it had received complaints from worried parents as early as last March, and identified the contamination on Aug. 6.
The incident became public only after Sanlu’s New Zealand partner, Fonterra, which holds three seats on the company board, informed New Zealand diplomats who told Chinese government officials in Beijing of the problem.
Fonterra has ”been trying for weeks to get official recall, and the local authorities in China would not do it,” New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark told her country’s state TV broadcaster on Monday. ”At the local level ... I think the first inclination was to try to put a towel over it.”
According to official figures, China has nearly half a million food producing and processing companies.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0917/p01s03-woap.
Not only did Sanlu fail to detect the melamine in its milk powder, the company has also so far failed to explain why it did not publicly reveal the problem until Sept. 11, although it had received complaints from worried parents as early as last March, and identified the contamination on Aug. 6.
The incident became public only after Sanlu’s New Zealand partner, Fonterra, which holds three seats on the company board, informed New Zealand diplomats who told Chinese government officials in Beijing of the problem.
Fonterra has ”been trying for weeks to get official recall, and the local authorities in China would not do it,” New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark told her country’s state TV broadcaster on Monday. ”At the local level ... I think the first inclination was to try to put a towel over it.”
(Local Perspectives)
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”State television reported Tuesday that 22 of 175 dairy producers inspected since last week were found to have produced melamine-tainted milk. They included major brands such as the Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group, a supplier for the Beijing Olympics.”