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BumRushDaShow

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24. The pet food fiasco was around the same time for similar reasons
Sat May 14, 2022, 08:33 AM
May 2022

where you had criminal organizations of "suppliers" (mostly in China) who were "cutting" raw powdered ingredients with melamine to boost the protein content to pass a nutritional sampling and analysis, and provide them a profit.

Two were eventually executed (although the head of the company that sold the tainted product, got a life sentence) -

China executes two for tainted milk scandal

Tania Branigan in Beijing
Tue 24 Nov 2009 11.36 EST



China executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman today for their role in a tainted infant formula scandal in which at least six children died and 300,000 were made ill, state media said. Nineteen others have been jailed since January in connection with the case, which involved deliberately contaminating milk with melamine, a chemical used in manufacturing plastics and fertilisers.

It resulted in product recalls around the world and caused outrage in China, particularly when details of a cover-up emerged.Sanlu, the company at the heart of the scandal, knew that its milk was making babies ill by May last year, but it did not inform officials in Shijiazhuang city until August. Officials there waited a month before telling Hebei provincial authorities, who then told Beijing.

Rumours that babies were being taken ill after consuming Sanlu formula reached Chinese reporters by July, but they appear to have believed the issue was too sensitive to cover in the run-up to the Olympics, when the government was determined to present positive images of China. Parents were furious to learn that dairy farmers and middlemen had deliberately added melamine to boost the apparent protein levels of milk so that it would pass nutritional tests.

Zhang Yujun, a farmer, was executed for endangering public safety and Geng Jinping for producing and selling toxic food, the state news agency Xinhua reported. It said Zhang had produced and sold hundreds of tonnes of melamine-laced "protein powder" and Geng had sold more than 900 tonnes of tainted milk. Much of it ended up at Sanlu – at the time one of China's biggest dairies – where it was made into infant formula.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/china-executes-milk-scandal-pair
Sounds like there could be something evil brewing there. C Moon May 2022 #1
Nestle's involved, so that's a given. n/t OnlinePoker May 2022 #3
Yup TheRealNorth May 2022 #4
TFG's tax on products from overseas has contributed to the shortage Cozmo May 2022 #2
No, the problem is we simply don't pay attention to risk & suppliers. oldsoftie May 2022 #6
We need to be dropping China like a hot potato simply for their JCMach1 May 2022 #20
The only one who might have an "excuse" BumRushDaShow May 2022 #5
White House 'strongly' considering using Defense Production Act to address infant formula shortage, LeftInTX May 2022 #7
Is there a cow shortage inthewind21 May 2022 #8
One of the claims being made by the dairy industry BumRushDaShow May 2022 #10
You forgot the corn syrup and vegetable oil - gross! womanofthehills May 2022 #22
I heard that discussed last night on the news BumRushDaShow May 2022 #9
Melamine contaminated pet food years ago, too. BadgerKid May 2022 #23
The pet food fiasco was around the same time for similar reasons BumRushDaShow May 2022 #24
Why do people still vote for clowns like Abbott? Initech May 2022 #12
In this case, "Abbott" is the name of the company ( "Abbott Laboratories" ) BumRushDaShow May 2022 #14
Oh I was thinking of Greg Abbott. LOL. Initech May 2022 #16
I definitely understand! BumRushDaShow May 2022 #18
Is that why the grocery store is locking up formula?? nitpicker May 2022 #11
I know around here (Philly and some of the immediate surrounding area) BumRushDaShow May 2022 #15
Grocery stores locking up baby formula goes back to the 80s at least. sybylla May 2022 #26
My guess is that it's a transportation problem Warpy May 2022 #13
With a draconian SCOTUS about to flood the market with illegitimate babies SouthernDem4ever May 2022 #17
Probably transportation issues Warpy May 2022 #19
An investigation that has no teeth. We need real industry regulation... NullTuples May 2022 #21
this... myohmy2 May 2022 #25
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