Tainted milk scandal continues
- Source: Global Times
- [14:30 December 11 2009]
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Three people suspected of selling tons of milk powder tainted with the industrial chemical melamine were detained, over a year after the tainted milk scandal.
Liu Ping, general manager of Jinqiao Dairy Corporation in Shaanxi province and two employees were detained on December 2 for producing and selling toxic milk powder.
Last month China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman for their roles in last year's scandal, in which milk powder tainted with melamine killed at least six children and sickened hundreds of thousands of others with kidney stones and kidney failure.
It was reported that the Shaanxi Jinqiao Dairy Corporation sold more than five tons of tainted milk powder to Nanning Yueqian food additive company in Guangxi Province in September. Last month the food additive company discovered the contamination.
None of the milk powder reached the market and all were confiscated, said Xu Qiang, deputy head of Shaanxi public security authority. The Shaanxi Jinqiao Dairy Corporation could not be reached for comment late Thursday.
The Chinese dairy industry was hit hard by the tainted milk scandal last year, resulting in a sluggish market, excess raw milk and low prices.
