2008 Chinese milk scandal | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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2008 Chinese milk scandal


00:02:48 1 Melamine
00:04:00 1.1 Source of contamination
00:07:11 1.2 Victims
00:11:00 2 Companies
00:11:59 2.1 Sanlu
00:12:48 2.1.1 Warning signs ignored
00:14:32 2.1.2 Cover-up allegations
00:17:54 2.1.3 Sanctions
00:19:09 2.1.4 Arrests
00:21:45 2.1.5 Effect on the company
00:22:48 2.2 Chinese majors
00:24:55 3 Trade and industry impact
00:25:05 3.1 Chinese industry
00:27:49 3.2 Foreign operations in China
00:30:19 3.3 Olympics
00:30:49 3.4 Outside mainland China
00:31:51 3.4.1 Hong Kong
00:33:30 3.4.2 European Union
00:34:02 3.4.3 United States Food and Drug Administration
00:35:27 4 Response
00:35:36 4.1 International agencies
00:38:42 4.2 Chinese public
00:38:51 4.2.1 Anger at Sanlu
00:40:59 4.2.2 Anger at political leaders
00:42:22 4.2.3 Quest for milk substitutes
00:43:22 4.3 Taiwan
00:44:29 4.4 PRC government
00:44:38 4.4.1 Top leaders' comments
00:46:39 4.4.2 Stepped-up inspection program
00:49:13 4.4.3 Public relations
00:51:34 4.4.4 Censorship
00:52:53 4.4.5 Pressure on the legal profession
00:54:57 4.4.6 Criminal prosecutions
00:55:06 4.5 Other third parties
00:55:14 4.5.1 On the economic root cause
00:56:06 4.5.2 On the damage caused
00:58:34 4.5.3 On the power structure
01:01:18 4.5.4 On the culture of secrecy
01:02:40 4.6 On the Chinese social critics
01:03:13 5 Widening contamination
01:03:49 5.1 Chicken and eggs
01:05:25 5.2 Baking powder
01:06:13 6 Impact and response
01:06:23 6.1 International agencies
01:06:47 6.2 Chinese public and the trade
01:07:52 6.3 PRC government
01:09:04 7 Contamination and response in 2009–2010
01:12:06 8 See also
01:12:35 9 Notes



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The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a widespread food safety incident in China. The scandal involved milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with melamine. Of an estimated 300,000 victims in China, six babies died from kidney stones and other kidney damage and an estimated 54,000 babies were hospitalized. The chemical gives the appearance of higher protein content when added to milk, leading to protein deficiency in the formula. In a separate incident four years prior, watered-down milk had resulted in 12 infant deaths from malnutrition.  The scandal broke on 16 July 2008, after sixteen babies in Gansu Province were diagnosed with kidney stones. The babies were fed infant formula produced by Shijiazhuang-based Sanlu Group. After the initial focus on Sanlu—market leader in the budget segment—government inspections revealed the problem existed to a lesser degree in products from 21 other companies, including an Arla Foods-Mengniu joint venture company known as Arla Mengniu, Yili, and Yashili.The issue raised concerns about food safety and political corruption in China, and damaged the reputation of China's food exports. At least 11 countries stopped all imports of Chinese dairy products.  A number of criminal prosecutions were conducted by the Chinese government. Two people were executed, one given a suspended death penalty, three people receiving life imprisonment, two receiving 15-year jail terms, and seven local government officials, as well as the Director of the Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ), were fired or forced to resign.The World Health Organization referred to the incident as one of the largest food safety events it has had to deal with in recent years, and that the crisis of confidence among Chinese consumers would be hard to overcome. A spokesman said the scale of the problem proved it was "clearly not an isolated accident, [but] a large-scale intentional activity to deceive consumers for simple, basic, short-term profits."  In late October 2008, similar adulteration with melamine was discovered in eggs and possibly other food. The source was traced to melamine being added to animal feed, despite a ban imposed in June 2007 following the scandal over pet food ingredients ex ...