New melamine scandal in Gansu, Jilin

By Jane Chen | July 9, 2010, Friday |

Online Edition

FOOD safety watchdogs in north China's Gansu Province and northeast China's Jilin Province are cracking down again on melamine-laced milk products after new contaminated products were seized.

In Gansu, more than 500 times the maximum melamine was found in milk powder, probably made with undestroyed tainted products from Sanlu, a Hebei Province-based milk maker, Xinhua news agency reported.

Sanlu went bankrupt after the melamine scandal that killed at least six infants and poisoned more than 300,000.

Gansu Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Administration said it detected high melamine levels in three milk powder samples sent by Liu Xiping on June 25, according to the administration's vice director Wang Zhongxi.

The administration called police and immediately launched an investigation.

Liu allegedly told police that he was a worker with Donghuan Dairy Factory in Gansu's neighboring Qinghai Province. He was later referred to Qinghai police.

The company produced milk products from contaminated raw materials bought in Hebei and then took melamine tests outside Qinghai, the report said. Most of the products were sold to east China's Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.

Qinghai police's investigation indicated Donghuan had bought 64 tons of raw materials and produced 12 tons of milk products, with all the samples contaminated with too much melamine.

Police have seized the tainted milk products. They also caught the factory's legal representative Liu Zhanfeng, 54, and its head Wang Haifeng, 37. Both are natives of Shaanxi Province.

Melamine was also detected in milk product from a dairy factory in Jilin Province's Daqing City. Jilin police and the market watchdog seized more than 1,000 packs of milk powder from a supermarket.

Nation

About Us
|
Terms of Use
|
RSS
|
Privacy Policy
|
Contact Us
|
Shanghai Call Center: 962288
|
Tip-off hotline: 52920043

沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
|
互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
|
网络视听许可证：0909346
|
广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
|
增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012

New melamine scandal in Gansu, Jilin

Email this to your friend