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In China, 53,000 children sickened by milk

Chinese authorities promise to crack down on those responsible for tainted formula. The number of children sickened by tainted milk in China has jumped to nearly... ...full story at LA Times

from LA Times on Mon, Sep 22 2008

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09 Oct 08 visit 10,000 children still sick from tainted milk  »  Shanghai Daily MORE than 10,000 children remain hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, officials said, as the government released its first rules on allowable levels of the chemical blamed in the ailments....
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23 Sep 08 visit Got Melamine? 53,000 Chinese Children Did - In Their Milk  »  TreeHugger Image credit::Scrap melamine sample. New York Times Exposure of Chinese infants and children to melamine-tainted milk turns out to have far been worse than was reported a few days ago. Nearly 53,000 are reported now to have been sickened; and the count...
11 Oct 08 visit HK reports sixth children with kidney stones after drinking tainted milk  »  People's Daily Hong Kong health authorities said Friday that a 10-year-old boy had suffered from kidney stones after drinking melamine tainted milk products. The new case brings to six the total number of children with milk-related kidney stones in Hong Kong. ...
24 Oct 08 visit Tainted China Milk Ends Up In The US. In The Courts, Anyway.  »  China Law Blog China Hearsay (welcome back, Stan!) just posted on how parents of some Chinese children who "died or became ill after drinking infant milk formula contaminated with melamine say they will sue a subsidiary of a Chinese milk powder manufacturer based in the...

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