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In reply to the discussion: House panel launches investigation into baby formula shortage [View all]BumRushDaShow
(127,254 posts)24. The pet food fiasco was around the same time for similar reasons
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
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
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White House 'strongly' considering using Defense Production Act to address infant formula shortage,
LeftInTX
May 2022
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In this case, "Abbott" is the name of the company ( "Abbott Laboratories" )
BumRushDaShow
May 2022
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With a draconian SCOTUS about to flood the market with illegitimate babies
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May 2022
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