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...return date set. Roxanna wondered, blushing even at the thought, if Felicity was trying to relive her honeymoon in Florence. Certainly the Viscount and the Viscountess shared the same bed every night. Yet their room seemed oddly quiet, and when Roxanna brought Felicity her evening glass of warm milk, she thought the Viscountess lay next to her husband as if she was lying beside him in a tomb. Roxanna knew she should not have these thoughts, just as she knew she must keep her gaze downcast each evening as she slipped quietly in and out of the Viscountess?...
...China Tainted Baby-Food Shock In a widening scandal, at least three babies have died and more than 6,200 have become sick after consuming milk contaminated with the nonfood substance melamine. Beijing is investigating at least 22 companies that packaged tainted milk and yogurt sold in mainland China and Hong Kong. Melamine, a plastic compound that shows up as protein in some food tests, has been used by certain manufacturers in China to make their products appear more nutritious. In 2007, thousands of pets in the U.S. died after eating pet food contaminated with Chinese melamine...
...sickened babies are demanding a greater response. "Sanlu is a big company and we trusted their products. We never dreamed that they would sell something so poisonous," says a mother in Xuzhou, a town in the eastern province of Jiangsu. Her 21-month-old son, who drank Sanlu powdered milk since birth, was just diagnosed with kidney stones. "What angers me the most is that Sanlu had known about it for so long," says the mother, who would only give her surname Zeng. "When I called Sanlu, they told me, 'The country will take care...
...group of lawyers situated around China has agreed to represent parents who are now trying to win compensation from Sanlu. They say the legal responsibility likely extends beyond the milk producers. "The [government's] quality control departments are probably responsible for the tragedy. It's unlikely that the whole thing consists of an independent crime committed by the dairy farmers", says Li Fangping, one of the Beijing-based lawyers who will be representing the parent group. "The poisonous milk powder was allowed in the market for so long and the scale of consequences is huge...
...Sanlu scandal has revived longstanding concerns about the safety of Chinese products. In 2004, 13 babies in eastern China died after they were fed milk made with powder that contained little nutritional value. That incident, know as the "big headed babies" scandal because the malnourished children developed swollen heads, touched off domestic demands for greater scrutiny of Chinese food products. Last year, the food supply chain became an international concern when a series of faulty export products were uncovered including fish contaminated with banned drugs, toothpaste and cough syrup made with toxic chemicals and lead paint used on toys...