Shanghai dairy shut after melamine scare: report

2010-02-23T07:04:27Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - A Shanghai dairy has been closed and three of its executives arrested for selling milk powder tainted with melamine, the industrial chemical responsible for the death of six children in 2008, Xinhua news agency repor...

China detains three in new toxic milk scare

2010-02-23T17:31:50Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained three people suspected of selling milk powder tainted with melamine, state media said on Thursday, the industrial chemical involved in a massive toxic food scandal last year.</p><p>The three were detained in northwestern China's first civil lawsuit seeking compensation over last year's tainted milk scandal has been delayed for further investigation, state-run media reported Wednesday.</p><p>A district court in Beijing late last month began hearing a case filed by Ma Xuexin, whose 20-month-old son developed kidney stones after drinking the poisoned milk, the

China executes two over tainted milk scandal

2010-02-24T01:19:30Z

<div><p>Two men were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.</p><p>The men had been sentenced to death earlier this year by a court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang for producing and selling toxic ingredien...

China executes two over tainted milk scandal: state media

2010-02-24T01:22:53Z

China executes two over tainted milk: state media

2010-02-24T01:23:32Z

<div><p>Two men were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a scandal over contaminated milk powder that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.</p><p>The men had been sentenced to death earlier this year by a court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang for producing and selling toxic ingr...

China executes two for tainted milk scandal

2010-02-24T01:25:49Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday executed two people for their role in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six children and further sullied the made-in-China brand.</p><p>Nearly 300,000 children fell ill last year after drinking milk intentionally laced with melamine, a...

Sanlu Ex-Boss Gets Life for Milk Scandal

2009-03-13T17:40:18Z

Tian Wenhua, the former chairwoman and general manager of Sanlu Group, the firm at the center of the tainted milk scandal, received life imprisonment in north Chinas Hebei province. Tian, 66, was sentenced in the Intermediate Peoples Court of Shijiazhuang fo...

China Sentences 2 to Death Over Tainted Milk

2009-03-13T17:39:17Z

Jan 22, 2009 - Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China - The former chairwoman of China's Sanlu dairy was sentenced to life in prison and three others received death sentences in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six infants and sickened nearly 300,000 others. SHIJIAZHUANG, Jan. 22, 2009 -- Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2009 shows the headquarters of Sanlu Group in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province. Sanlu Group at the heart of China's melamine-tainted milk scandal was fined about 50 million yuan (7.3...

Sanyuan to Lease Assets from Bankrupt Sanlu

2009-04-24T06:08:58Z

Dec 31, 2008 - Shijiazhuang, China - Beijing Sanyuan Foods Co. is to lease some production assets from Sanlu Group, the dairy company that filed for bankruptcy after the milk powder scandal. Sanyuan is revising its proposal to take over Sanlu, prev...

CHINA-SHIJIAZUANG-SANLU-MILK SCANDAL-EXECUTIVES-TRIAL

2009-04-23T23:31:59Z

081231) -- SHIJIAZUANG, Dec. 31, 2008 -- Tian Wenhua, Sanlu's former board chairwoman and general manager, stands on trial on the court, in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province, Dec. 31, 2008. Four executives of the Sanlu Group, the major dairy at t...

Former Sanlu Chief May Face Death Penalty in Milk Scandal

2009-04-23T23:02:43Z

Dec 30, 2008 - Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China - The former head of the firm at the centre of the tainted-milk scandal, who will stand trial on Wednesday (December 31), could face the death penalty if convicted, a lawyer said last week. The trial of Tian Wenhua, previously the chairwoman of Shijiazhuang, China - Sanlu had filed for bankruptcy and the Intermediate People's Court of Shijiazhuang City, where the company is headquartered, had notified the company that it would accept the bankruptcy petition. Fonte...

China Reports 294,000 Children Ill from Tainted Milk

2009-04-23T02:00:47Z

Dec 08, 2008 - Hebei, China - Families of victims in the scandal over melamine-tainted milk powder suffered a major setback on Monday. Hebei Higher Peoples Court refused to accept the first collective compensation lawsuit brought against dairy firm Sanlu since the scandal broke in September. A group of lawyers, acting withou...

Sanlu Resumes Milk Production with New Name

2009-04-22T17:23:07Z

Dec 04, 2008 - Xingtai, Hebei, China - Hebei Beilande Dairy, earlier known as Xingtai Sanlu Dairy, resumed its supplies on December 2. The firm was the largest milk production base of the Sanlu Group, whose baby milk food was the first to be found with high levels of melamine. La...

Tainted milk, a baby's death and lawsuit in China

2010-02-28T02:43:15Z

<div><p>Heartbroken at the sudden death of their baby boy, the Yi family struggled to forget what they thought was a tragic twist of fate. They burned his clothes, toys, everything but a single photo and the baby formula he drank.</p><p>Then health officials suddenly arrived at the family's rural home last month with shocking news: Milk contaminated by an industrial chemical might have killed their son. On Monday, the Yis filed a lawsuit ag...

China's Wahaha interested in buying tainted dairy producer

2010-02-28T03:03:05Z

<div><p>China's largest soft drinks maker, Wahaha, said Monday that it is interested in buying the dairy company at the origin of a nationwide scandal over contaminated milk.</p><p>A Wahaha spokesman said Wahaha Group Chairman Zong Qinhou had expressed an interest in taking over China's State Council has tightened quality control regulations for the dairy industry — while authorities in Macau and Hong Kong report that several children have developed kidney stones from Chinese tainted milk.</p><p&...

Cadbury withdraws 11 products in milk scare

2010-02-28T04:08:21Z

<div><p>The British confectioner Cadbury has recalled chocolate made in China after finding it contained melamine. </p><p>As the scandal over tainted milk continued to develop, the firm said yesterday it was withdrawing 11 products as a precautionary measure. More than 50,000 children have been taken ill after drinking infant ...

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