October 2008
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China Widens Food Tests on Signs of New... →
SHANGHAI — Chinese regulators said Friday that they were widening their investigation into contaminated food amid growing signs that an industrial chemical called melamine had leached into the nation’s animal feed supplies, posing even deeper health risks to consumers after the recent tainted milk scandal.
BBC NEWS - China toxic egg scandal spreads →
Three more Chinese brands of chicken’s eggs have been found to contain high levels of the chemical melamine.
Fear Grows Over Melamine Contamination In China's... →
BEIJING, Oct 31 (Bernama) — China’s state media is calling for action to check how widespread the use of melamine is, in the country’s animal feed industry.
China melamine scandal prompts mass chicken cull -... →
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese farmers, hurt by a spreading melamine scandal, slaughtered tens of thousands of chickens, state media said on Friday, as authorities in Shanghai began checks on feed producers for local fisheries.
Report: China's animal feed tainted with melamine... →
BEIJING (AP) — Animal feed producers in China commonly add the industrial chemical melamine to their products to make them appear higher in protein, state media reported Thursday, an indication that the scope of the country’s latest food safety scandal could extend beyond milk and eggs.
BBC NEWS - China warns on emissions control →
China has admitted that controlling greenhouse emissions is a “difficult task” and warned that there is little prospect of an early improvement.
China vows penalties as melamine eggs scare... →
BEIJING (Reuters) – Authorities in a northeastern Chinese city on Wednesday vowed severe punishment for those responsible for melamine-tainted eggs turning up in Hong Kong, as the health scare spread to another city in eastern China.
China tangerine sales go pear-shaped as rumors fly... →
BEIJING (Reuters) – China, trying to convince the world its food is safe, has now been hit by fruit fly rumors which have cost farmers millions of dollars in lost sales.
China pays high environmental and social price for... →
Pollution, emissions and mining accidents cost £160bn each year, say Greenpeace, WWF and energy campaigners
The Associated Press: Wal-Mart removes brand of... →
BEIJING (AP) — Wal-Mart said Tuesday it had stopped selling a brand of eggs in its Chinese stores after food safety regulators in Hong Kong found excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in eggs sold under the brand.
AFP: China knew of tainted eggs in September:... →
BEIJING (AFP) — Eggs tainted with the industrial chemical melamine were detected last month in the same northeast Chinese city from where contaminated ones sold in Hong Kong originated, an official said Monday.
FOXNews.com - China questions 63 accused of mine... →
BEIJING — Chinese authorities were investigating 63 people suspected of involvement in a cover-up of a coal mine blast in northern China that killed 35 people, state television said Sunday.
Hong Kong steps up testing of China food imports... →
HONG KONG - Hong Kong will expand its testing of food imported from China after the toxic chemical melamine was found in mainland eggs, a senior official said Sunday, according to a television report.
The Associated Press: Premier says China to ensure... →
BEIJING (AP) — China’s premier said Saturday the country will take steps to improve its food safety, saying that tainted milk products that are believed to have killed four babies and sickened thousands of children was a failure of regulation.
The Associated Press: China arrests 6 for role in... →
BEIJING (AP) — China arrested three people Thursday for allegedly adding a toxic chemical to fresh milk to mask the fact that it was watered down and three others for selling the chemical.
China - Additives Draft Law Reviewed - NYTimes.com →
China’s legislature began reviewing a draft law on Thursday that would strictly limit food additives, after more than 50,000 infants were sickened by formula adulterated with melamine, an industrial chemical used to inflate protein levels artificially. The Health Ministry already ordered more restrictive food safety regulations on Oct. 8. State media also reported that six people had been arrested...
Report: China's carbon emissions to double by 2030... →
BEIJING — China’s greenhouse gas pollution could double or more in two decades says a new Chinese state think-tank study that casts stark light on the industrial giant’s role in stoking global warming.
UN prescribes food safety recommendations in China →
The Canadian Press: UN says China's food safety... →
BEIJING — China must urgently reform its food safety system to increase oversight and hold businesses responsible for their products, United Nations officials said Wednesday.
China highlights environmental protection in... →
China’s top environmental regulator calls on the country’s environmental watchdog to reduce pollution when destroying contaminated dairy products.
Wal-Mart tightens quality standards for China... →
BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, said on Wednesday it would begin forcing Chinese suppliers to meet new quality standards and assume responsibility for their subcontractors.
U.S. manufacturer recalls 1.59 million cribs -... →
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Delta Enterprises recalled almost 1.6 million cribs, made in China, Indonesia and Taiwan, on Monday after it said two babies died.
“China attaches importance to product quality, especially the quality of products...”
– China Foreign Ministry spokesman, Qin Gang
1,500 Chinese raccoon dogs die from tainted feed -... →
BEIJING – Some 1,500 dogs bred for their raccoon-like fur have died after eating feed tainted with melamine, a veterinarian said Monday, raising questions about how widespread the industrial chemical is in China’s food chain.
China recalls another herbal drug after baby death... →
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has recalled a herbal remedy after it was blamed for the death of a newborn baby, state media said Monday, in the latest health scare to hit the country.
200 tons of tainted baking ingredient from China... →
More than 200 tons of a melamine-tainted leavening agent imported from China had been sold in the domestic market, a Department of Health (DOH) official said Sunday.
AFP: China drug firm recalls ginseng injections... →
BEIJING (AFP) — The Chinese manufacturer of a ginseng injection that killed three people has recalled all its injection products, the country’s drug safety watchdog said Saturday.
China widens recall for firm in herbal drug scare... →
BEIJING, Oct 18 (Reuters) - China has expanded a product recall for a local pharmaceutical company whose herbal injections have been linked to the deaths of three people, the country’s food and drug watchdog said in a notice on Saturday.
GMANews.TV - Substandard China Xmas lights seized... →
MANILA, Philippines - Manila police confiscated several boxes of alleged substandard China-manufactured Christmas lights during a crackdown Saturday in Binondo.
“We will handle the incident sincerely and seriously, and draw deep lessons from...”
– Chinese premier Wen Jiabao: China admits milk scandal failings
The Associated Press: Panama says tests show... →
PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) — Panama says Chinese cookies and candy pulled from stores have tested positive for melamine, the industrial chemical blamed for the deaths of four infants and the sickening of 54,000 children in China.
China reduces media freedoms - Telegraph →
China has failed to renew regulations giving foreign journalists freedom to travel around the country. The decision is a blow to those who hoped the more open society put in place for the Beijing Olympics would be maintained.
China beans taken off shelves →
TOKYO: Japan yesterday ordered retailers to pull frozen beans from China off the shelves, after three people fell ill on eating a product which had 34,500 times the legal limit of pesticide, officials said.
Tainted milk found in Italy; 5,800 babies still... →
HOHHOT, China (AP) — Laboratory tests have turned up Italy’s first cases of melamine-tainted milk, while authorities in Naples have separately seized tons of illegal Chinese products.
AFP: US food, drug regulator to open offices in... →
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will open its first overseas offices in China this year as part of efforts to regulate imported food to the United States, an official said on Thursday.
AFP: Recalled milk sold to students in China:... →
SHANGHAI (AFP) — Dairy products that were recalled in southern China to be tested for the deadly chemical melamine were instead dumped at universities and sold to students at a discount, state media reported Thursday.
BBC NEWS | Chinese toy firms forced to close →
More than half of China’s toy exporters have been forced out of business this year, according to official figures.
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China Recalls More Milk Items for Testing -... →
BEIJING — The Chinese government ordered a recall on Tuesday of all milk products produced before Sept. 14 that are still on the shelves so the products can be tested for the toxic chemical melamine.
The Associated Press: China orders more testing... →
BEIJING (AP) — China is ordering all liquid and powdered milk manufactured before Sept. 14 to be taken off the shelves for melamine testing, a news report said Tuesday, the first time Beijing has issued a blanket recall of products since the tainted dairy scandal broke last month.
Over 100 sick in China as too many cooks spoil... →
BEIJING (Reuters) - Some 170 wedding banquet guests were rushed to hospital in north China when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt after they all decided it needed added flavor, Chinese media said.
BBC NEWS | France pulls tainted Chinese food →
France has recalled sweets and biscuits made with Chinese dairy products after finding high levels of a chemical.
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“I feel I have let everybody down. I have done so much, yet still done wrong.”
– China milk scandal companies apologize
China milk scandal companies apologize - Yahoo!... →
BEIJING (Reuters) - Three Chinese dairy companies have publicly apologized for their involvement in a toxic milk scandal that has killed at least four children and led to Chinese-made products pulled from shelves around the world.
Censorship Isn't Good for China's Health - WSJ.com →
As the world watched the fireworks of the Beijing Games’ opening ceremony, the seeds of China’s latest deadly public health disaster were being sown. This latest chapter in the toxic product scandals — following toy train sets, dog food and dumplings — is a sobering reminder of the ongoing public-health threat posed by Beijing’s media censorship.