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Empty milk shelf in a Carrefour supermarket in China as a result of the scandal. The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a significant food safety incident in China. The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants.
This timeline of the 2008 Chinese milk scandal documents how events related to the Chinese dairy products contamination by melamine unfolded. Complaints about kidney problems traced back to a brand of infant formula, subsequent discoveries of melamine contamination of liquid milk, and exported powdered milk of processed food products (using contaminated milk).
On 27 September 2008, China Economic Net reported that Sanlu may have been bankrupted and soon be taken over by Beijing Sanyuan Food Company Ltd. [39] In November, it was announced that the Sanyuan Group would acquire 4 of Sanlu's Shijiazhuang plants, and plants in Tangshan, Shandong and Henan, and would assume some of Sanlu's debt ...
The situation, Huang added, had the potential to be the largest food safety scandal since 2008, given the volume of oil regularly transported and the implication that this may have been a ...
In 2008 the Chinese government seized tainted milk from more than 20 companies, leading to a global freeze on many Chinese food imports. ... It wasn’t until ten years after the scandal, in 2018 ...
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STR/AFP/Getty ImagesWorkers producing food at the Shanghai Husi Food Co., a factory of U.S. food supplier OSI Group, in Shanghai. By Adam Jourdan and Lisa Baertlein SHANGHAI and LOS ANGELES -- Yum ...
Empty milk shelf in a Carrefour supermarket in China as a result of the scandal. In late September 2008, the Hong Kong government found melamine in a Chinese-made Nestlé milk product. Six infants died from kidney damage, and a further 860 babies were hospitalised. [43] [44] The Dairy Farm milk was made by Nestlé's division in the Chinese ...