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| China Province Recalls Milk Powder After |
| 2004-06-13 |
| A Chinese province has recalled a brand of milk powder after more than 150 children suffered food poisoning, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, just weeks after another case in which fake milk powder killed at least 13 babies. Health authorities in southwestern Guizhou "demanded buyers across the province to immediately stop drinking" Shanhua milk powder, produced by the Guiyang Sanlian Milk Co on April 1 and 2. It did not give a reason for the two specific dates or say when the children fell sick. "According to reports given by local residents, over 70 kids in two kindergartens located in the Wudang district of Guiyang, capital of the province, (suffered) vomiting, diarrhoea and fever after drinking such milk powder," Xinhua said. Eighty-four children in another kindergarten also suffered similar symptoms, it said. A Xinhua report earlier this month said 80 children were rushed to hospital in Guiyang on June 3 with food poisoning believed to have been caused by substandard milk powder. Billions of dollars worth of counterfeit and substandard goods are produced in China every year and mass food poisoning cases are commonplace. News of the deaths from malnutrition of the 13 babies in impoverished Anhui province after drinking fake milk powder sparked a national outcry and drew the attention of top leaders. EMPHASIS ADDED It doesn’t look like China’s learning much, despite the death of their own infants and children. I’ve yet to hear of any sentences being handed down in the fake milk powder cases. You’d think that the politburo would crack down on product counterfeiting. Oh, wait ... it’s one of the ways that China makes so much money. If only it weren’t innocent children f&%king being killed at the hands of profiteers, I’d say that China is getting its just desserts for all of the havoc they wreak upon other economies with their government sanctioned theft. Too bad the politburo’s kids aren’t obliged to consume the same hogwash they let loose upon their own people. These murderers would be marched to the wall the very next morning. What a way to keep the birth rate down. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #2 Why lose power to freedom when the country already prospers without it? Edward, you have succinctly summed up so much of what revolts me about the politburo's rule of communist China. Some say it is communist only in name. I dispute that notion, as such kleptocracy epitomizes all that communism has ever and will ever stand for. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-06-13 12:35:20 PM |
| #1 That's the PRC for you - think that capitalism's imported freedom, or even common sense? Not a chance. And it only makes them sneer. (Why lose power to freedom when the country already prospers without it?) |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-06-13 7:06:56 AM |