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Selling out patient privacy to the milk industry

In the wake of the melamine milk scandal, there's been renewed attention in China on the benefits of breast-feeding, and media observers have been examining the questionable ways in which dairy companies hawk their products. An article in the Mirror... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Tue, Sep 30 2008

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22 Sep 08 visit CNN: Four infants in China dead, 53,000 reported ill from tainted milk powder. 中國毒奶粉事件繼續延燒-到目前為止已經有五萬三千兒童受害!四人死亡!  »  YouTube video53,000 reported ill from tainted milk powder, 13,000 children were hospitalized. The crisis was initially thought to have been confined to baby milk powder but tests have found melamine in samples of liquid milk taken from China's two largest dairy...
01 Oct 08 visit China: Selling out patient privacy to the milk industry  »  Global Voices Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a local report from Mirror about milk industry's promotion strategy - by buying pregnant woman's personal data from hospital.
10 Oct 08 visit Cabinet enacts tougher rules for dairy industry  »  Shanghai Daily THE State Council, China's Cabinet, has issued new regulations to tighten quality controls on the dairy industry in the wake of the tainted-milk scandal. Contaminated milk powder, laced with the chemical melamine,...
11 Dec 09 visit Shaanxi dairy repackages melamine-tainted milk powder  »  Danwei Chinese Business ViewDecember 11, 2009 More than a year after China's dairy industry was rocked by a milk additive scandal, and less than a month after two people were executed for their role in the deaths of six children, melamine-tainted milk is back...
08 Oct 08 visit China sets limit on melamine levels in dairy products  »  People's Daily New dairy safety standards are released in China following a contaminated milk powder scandal that sickened tens of thousands of babies. A chemical known as melamine was intentionally added to diluted milk to make it seem high in protein content....
20 Sep 08 visit HK tests no more dairy products from mainland tainted  »  Shanghai Daily ALL the 47 samples of dairy products, including milk, milk beverage, milk powder, yogurt and condensed milk, were free from melamine, Hong Kong testers said yesterday. The Center for Food Safety of Hong Kong (CFS)...

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