Toxic milk 有毒牛奶
The tainted food scandal in China keeps expanding, with more nations growing leery of the lethal chemical that has killed four infants and sickened 54,000.
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An activist dumps powdered milk during a protest demanding the government to take action to protect the people from tainted milk outside the health ministry in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday. Indonesia has stepped up testing of foods imported from China as a scandal over milk powder contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine fueled fears that compromised ingredients may have tainted other products, like cookies and cereal.
图一:印度尼西亚首都雅加达，一个抗议者在向政府抗议示威中将奶粉倒出，他们要求政府采取措施保护人民生命安全。自中国国内传出毒奶粉呢丑闻后，印尼已经开始着手检测从中国进口的食物。他们担心其他食品也受到了污染。
South Korean health officials inspect cakes made by a Korean plant in China at a warehouse in Ansan south of Seoul on Thursday. South Korea banned the import of all products containing Chinese powdered milk after discovering the harmful chemical melamine in some snacks.
图二：安山，韩国首尔南部，南韩卫生部官员在物流车间调查在华韩国企业生产的蛋糕。韩国已经禁令进口含中国奶粉成分的产品。
A Philippine police officer carries packs of White Rabbit candies as it was ordered withdrawn aside from other Chinese-made dairy products from the shelves of a grocery in Manila, Philippines, on Thursday Sept. 25, 2008. The government has temporarily banned the importation and selling of Chinese milk products as a precaution.
图三:一家小卖部里，一个菲律宾警察扛着大白兔奶糖，之前中国生产的奶制品已经被马尼拉政府勒令从货架上撤下。政府暂时禁止从中国进口和销售中国产奶制品。
A vet holds Liu Mao, a 2-year-old orangutan, during a check for kidney stones at an animal hospital in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province on Wednesday. A lion cub and two baby orangutans from the Hangzhou Safari Park were found to have kidney stones after zoo workers fed them Sanlu brand milk powder for more than a year.
图四：一只两岁大的猩猩被检查出患有肾脏结石。之前动物园给猩猩喂养过三鹿奶粉。
A government laboratory technician of the Bureau of Food and Drugs tests milk products from China that are being sold in Manila, Philippines, at a laboratory on Tuesday.
图五：马尼拉食品药品局的工作人员在给从中国进口的奶粉进行测试。
Parents and their children wait for health inspection at a children's hospital in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province on Sept. 19. Thousands of worried parents have filled hospitals, many hovering over sons and daughters hooked to IV drips after drinking milk powder tainted with melamine, a toxic industrial chemical that can cause kidney stones and lead to kidney failure. Some 1,300 babies, mostly newborns, remain hospitalized, with 158 suffering from acute kidney failure.
A law executor of local administration for industry and commerce checks a liquid milk product at a supermarket in downtown Qingdao city, eastern China's Shandong province on Sept. 19. Liquid milk sold by three leading companies in the country was found to be contaminated with melamine, the same chemical found in baby formula which killed four infants. In tests of liquid milk in recent days, 24 of the 1,202 batches were contaminated, state media reported, quoting the country's inspection agency.
A child, suffering from problems related to consuming tainted milk formula, rests at a hospital in Shijiazhuang, northern China's Hebei province on Sept. 18.
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At least three children have died and more than 1,300 others, mostly newborns, remain hospitalized with dozens suffering from acute kidney failure.
Health Minister Chen Zhu said he expected the numbers of affected babies to increase as “more and more parents take kids to the hospital.”
The head of China’s quality control watchdog agency, Li Changjiang, said 5,000 inspectors will be sent out nationwide to monitor companies after government testing showed that 20 percent of the companies producing milk powder had dairy products with melamine.
The chemical additive was at the center of a pet food scandal in the United States in 2007. An estimated 1,500 dogs and cats died after ingesting a pet food ingredient manufactured in China that was laced with melamine.
The emerging crisis has raised questions about the effectiveness of tighter controls China promised after a series of food scares in recent years over contaminated seafood, toothpaste and pet food exports.
It is also the second major case in recent years involving baby formula. In 2004, more than 200 Chinese infants suffered malnutrition and at least 12 died after being fed phony formula that contained no nutrients.
In a sign of the government’s concern, Premier Wen Jiabao presided over a meeting Wednesday of China’s Cabinet to back plans for a national inspection of milk products, according to a notice on the government’s Web site.
Chemical is normally used in plastic
Suppliers to the dairy companies are believed to have added the banned chemical, normally used in plastics, to watered-down milk to make it appear higher in protein. Inspectors will now start testing for melamine in all dairy products, Li said.
On Wednesday, the country’s two largest dairy companies, Mengniu Dairy Co. and Yili Industrial Group Co., were among the companies forced to recall baby formula. In addition, Guangdong-based Yashili and Qingdao-based Suncare recalled their tainted milk powder, which is exported to five countries in Africa and Asia: Bangladesh, Yemen, Gabon, Burundi and Myanmar.
So far, all the sick infants in China were found to have consumed milk powder produced by the company at the heart of the crisis, Sanlu Group Co., Chen said. Most babies developed urinary problems, including kidney stones, after consuming Sanlu milk powder for three to six months, he said.
Sanlu’s general manager Tian Wenhua, who was fired a day earlier, was detained by police Wednesday, the Xinhua news agency said. Four milk suppliers have been arrested.
158 babies suffering from kidney failure
China’s health minister said that 6,244 babies fell ill after being fed tainted milk formula, and that 158 were suffering from acute kidney failure. Chen reported the death of a third baby in eastern Zhejiang province but gave no details. The two earlier deaths had been reported in Gansu province. Currently, 1,327 children, mostly newborns, remain hospitalized.
The political fallout continued Wednesday, with the mayor of Hebei province’s capital, Shijiazhuang, being fired, Xinhua reported. Four other city officials from Shijiazhuang, where Sanlu is based, were fired earlier.
Sanlu company officials as well as government officials share the blame for delays in reporting the contamination, said Hebei Deputy Governor Yang Chongyong, who spoke on the sidelines of the press conference.
Sanlu did not inform the Shijiazhuang city government until Aug. 2, despite receiving public complaints about the milk powder five months earlier, Yang said. Then city officials waited until Sept. 9 to inform provincial officials, who then took a full day before contacting the central government, he said.
The company went public last week with the information after its New Zealand partner, Fonterra, told the New Zealand government, which then informed the Chinese government.
On Wednesday, Fonterra CEO Andrew Ferrier told reporters in New Zealand that Sanlu officials told the local government on Aug. 2 and urged an immediate public recall, but authorities “made their own judgment.”
“We were enormously relieved when the Chinese government decided to make it public because we had been urging that from day one. The relief was just massive,” he said.