Tainted infant formula
By Li Qian |
April 25, 2012, Wednesday
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TWO batches of infant formula made by Cradle Dairy and Happy Prince Dairy in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province contained a life-threatening bacterium and were being sold in Guangdong Province, the provincial quality supervisors said.
Tests showed Cradle's Gaiweijian formula produced last July and Happy Prince's Jin100 formula produced last September were tainted with enterobacter sakazakii, a highly deadly bacterium.
It can cause septicemia, meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis with a mortality rate of over 50 percent, especially for premature babies. It is a newly emerging pathogen in dairy products.
Poor management of the manufacturing process, the breakage of packaging and insect bites might lead to the pollution, Wang Dingmian, an industrial expert, told the New Express. However, many factories don't have effective measures and monitoring equipment to detect enterobacter sakazakii, Wang said.
The tainted dairy products were found only in stores in the Guangdong cities of Yingde and Chaozhou. Big supermarkets like Carrefour and ParknShop didn't sell them in Guangzhou and other cities in the province, the paper said.
"Though I never purchased the two brands, I was still afraid because the increasing reports of substandard infant formula and milk powder really worry me," a young mother told the newspaper.
Tests showed Cradle's Gaiweijian formula produced last July and Happy Prince's Jin100 formula produced last September were tainted with enterobacter sakazakii, a highly deadly bacterium.
It can cause septicemia, meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis with a mortality rate of over 50 percent, especially for premature babies. It is a newly emerging pathogen in dairy products.
Poor management of the manufacturing process, the breakage of packaging and insect bites might lead to the pollution, Wang Dingmian, an industrial expert, told the New Express. However, many factories don't have effective measures and monitoring equipment to detect enterobacter sakazakii, Wang said.
The tainted dairy products were found only in stores in the Guangdong cities of Yingde and Chaozhou. Big supermarkets like Carrefour and ParknShop didn't sell them in Guangzhou and other cities in the province, the paper said.
"Though I never purchased the two brands, I was still afraid because the increasing reports of substandard infant formula and milk powder really worry me," a young mother told the newspaper.
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