Saturday, August 2, 2014

PRO/MBDS> Melamine, milk products - China: Guangdong, public health risk

Poisoning -- Worldwide/Unknown

State media said on [Thu 31 Jul 2014], Chinese police have seized almost 12 tonnes (1.1023 ton) of yoghurt candy tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical at the center of a scandal in 2008 in which 6 infants died and thousands were made ill.

Police in the southern province of Guangdong made the discovery during a sweep of food producers and have detained the manager of the factory that produced it, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

As the case was a complex one that involved



Source: HealthMap Global Disease Alerts http://ift.tt/1nf6anY

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