China has launched a nationwide check for milk products contaminated with melamine, the chemical blamed for the deaths of six babies in 2008.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued three voluntary recalls involving children’s products that were manufactured in China.

BEIJING — China has begun a 10-day emergency inspection of dairy products because of reports that tainted items the government had ordered destroyed during a food safety scandal in 2008 were still on the market, the official China Daily newspaper reported Tuesday.

The government controlled Xinhua news service reported Tuesday morning in Beijing, China that the government has dispatched food safety inspectors to investigate new cases of melamine contamination in Chinese dairy products.

USDA recalls Jin Mai Lang Brand instant noodles that were imported to the United States from China.

(Jan. 25) – In the most recent of a string of scandals related to contamination in consumer goods in China, milk products tainted with toxic melamine have been pulled from store shelves, The Associated Press reports.

BEIJING — Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.

YIWU, China (AP) — For China’s low-cost jewelry makers, it was an open trade secret: The metal cadmium is shiny, strong and malleable at low temperatures, regardless of its health hazards. And it’s cheap.