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...China Milk Recall: How It Happened A manufacturer at the center of China's latest food scandal knew its milk was making babies sick months before the company went public, according to a recent report on state television...
JUNE 2008 Sanlu finds melamine in its milk; the Chinese government is first informed of problems at the company...
...time when the reputation of "Made in China" is once again being battered by a product safety scandal - this time chemical-tainted milk - China will see a successful space mission as a welcome fall extension of its Summer Olympic glory. "When combined with a successful Olympics, it becomes very difficult for China to be [seen] as a developing country," says Yan Xuetong, director of the Institute of International Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing. "With the huge amount of money spent and the high-tech capacity, the two things will make the world believe that China is a developed country...
...head of the state food-quality inspectorate. But "stability" also means not letting the blame game allow its focus to center too squarely on the party. Within days of the story breaking, the state media was commanded by the Propaganda Department to tone down its coverage of the tainted-milk-powder scandal. Lawyers looking to file suits on behalf of aggrieved parents were ordered in no uncertain terms to drop their plans. Internet discussions of this and other recent disasters were swiftly deleted...
...demonstration against the government in a Beijing suburb signaled that the grace period was over. The string of disasters that has befallen the nation since then will only add to questions about where the limits of the long-suffering public's patience lie. This week, anger over the tainted-milk-powder scandal was palpable at one of Beijing's main Children's Hospitals, where hundreds of anxious parents were lined up with their toddlers waiting to see a doctor. "Enough with the hindsight," said private business owner Zhang Zaihua, 26. "Where were all those supervisors before this whole thing happened...