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Living in China, worrying about the safety of food

A Times reporter and his friends have changed the way they feed their families amid China's melamine-tainted-milk scandal. On holiday with my family this week on... ...full story at LA Times

from LA Times on Fri, Oct 03 2008

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29 Sep 08 visit Chinese milk scandal goes beyond China and goes beyond milk!  »  YouTube videoBritish chocolate maker Cadbury on Monday became the latest foreign company to be hit by China's tainted milk scandal, ordering a recall of its Chinese-made products after saying tests "cast doubt" on their safety. Two U.S. food makers were meanwhile...
06 Oct 08 visit China strengthens supervision during holidays to curb tainted milk scandal  »  People's Daily China continued to strengthen dairy product supervision during the week-long National Day holiday amid efforts to ensure food safety and restore public trust in milk supplies. All the milk containing melamine had been withdrawn from sale in...
24 Nov 08 visit Why A Little Melamine-Tainted Food Is Good For Us  »  TreeHugger Melamine (The New York Times) More deaths due to China's melamine-tainted milk were reported last week, just as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened an office in Beijing and shut down imports of milk from China. But a year after the ominous...
22 Sep 08 visit New mother offers controversial breast value amid China's tainted milk scandal  »  People's Daily A new mother sensing a business opportunity amid China's tainted dairy food scandal has caused fresh controversy by offering to breast feed other children -- at a price. The 32-year-old woman surnamed Huang said she had been producing more milk...
01 Oct 08 visit Chocolates, cheesecake, cookies caught in tainted-milk scandal  »  Shanghai Daily CHINA'S contaminated milk scandal spread yesterday with 11 kinds of Cadbury-brand candies being pulled from shops in Beijing and Hong Kong's food-safety agency reporting it had found the industrial chemical melamine...
15 Oct 08 visit China's White Rabbit candy back in market after tainted milk scandal  »  People's Daily The producer of China's iconic White Rabbit milk candy has put on green label on the candy's packing to show the product is free of melamine, three weeks after a sales halt amid the wide-spread tainted milk scandal. The candy taking on a new look...

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