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Milk maker seeks to sue TV over baby puberty reports
By Wang Xiang |
August 9, 2010, Monday
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A baby formula maker in Qingdao, east China Shandong Province, said today it was consulting lawyers to file a lawsuit against Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television over "fabricating reports" accusing the company's products to cause unusual early puberty in infants.
Synutra strongly denied the accusations of its baby formula. But the spokesman for the Ministry of Health said last night that the ministry is paying a close attention to the case.
Three infants in central central China Wuhan City were reported to develop breasts as young as one year old. The parents of all three babies said they had been fed on Synutra formula exclusively since their birth. Similar cases were also reported in Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Shanxi Provinces.
Chen Junshi, a food safety researcher at China's disease control center said there was no evidence in the precocious cases to link sex precocity development to the milk powder.
Wang Dingmian, a director with Dairy Association of China, also defended dairy producers and said it is unlikely that the infant formula producers add estrogen into milk powder deliberately as it would not bring any profit. Wang added that if estrogen was really found in milk products, the hormone might have entered the milk from the cows because estrogen has been used to help cows breed.
Synutra strongly denied the accusations of its baby formula. But the spokesman for the Ministry of Health said last night that the ministry is paying a close attention to the case.
Three infants in central central China Wuhan City were reported to develop breasts as young as one year old. The parents of all three babies said they had been fed on Synutra formula exclusively since their birth. Similar cases were also reported in Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Shanxi Provinces.
Chen Junshi, a food safety researcher at China's disease control center said there was no evidence in the precocious cases to link sex precocity development to the milk powder.
Wang Dingmian, a director with Dairy Association of China, also defended dairy producers and said it is unlikely that the infant formula producers add estrogen into milk powder deliberately as it would not bring any profit. Wang added that if estrogen was really found in milk products, the hormone might have entered the milk from the cows because estrogen has been used to help cows breed.
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