Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'foods safety'
Milk Activist Trial Censored
By Radio Free Asia01 April 2010 China blacks out news about the trial of an activist who helped victims of a tainted milk scandal. Chinese authorities have taken swift steps to censor online news and information about the trial of...
More Melamine-Tainted Milk Products Found in China
By The Associated Press | The New York TimesJanuary 25, 2010 Melamine-tainted dairy products have been pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sickened in a massive milk...
Activist Refused Lawyer Visit
By Radio Free Asia December 08, 2009 A Chinese activist representing tainted-milk victims is barred from seeing his lawyer. A spokesman for victims in last year's tainted milk scandal detained for weeks has yet to be allowed to speak with...
Tainted Milk Parents Held
By Radio Free AsiaSeptember 14, 2009 Chinese authorities detain parents observing the anniversary of a far-reaching milk scandal that sickened their children. Three parents of children sickened in China's 2008 tainted-milk scandal were detained after observing the one-year anniversary of...
China Tainted Milk Parents Warned Against Meeting
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times10 September 2009 Chinese police have tried to prevent parents of children sickened by tainted milk powder from traveling to Beijing to mark the anniversary of last year's scandal, an activist said...
No more chicken in MAS flights from China
The New Straits Times Press (Malayasia) - By BERNAMAJanuary 29, 2009 Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has removed chicken from its inflight menu for flights out of China, effective today. This follows the government's indefinite ban on chicken imports from that country.In...
Parents express anger over China milk verdicts
By Karl Malakunas - Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 23, 2009 Angry parents of victims in China's milk scandal accused the government Friday of holding show trials and giving little help to their sick children, after the...
Parents of China Milk Scandal Victims Detained
By REUTERS | The Epoch TimesJanuary 02, 2009 BEIJING--A group of parents whose children fell ill from drinking tainted Chinese milk have been detained by police apparently trying to block them from holding a news conference, one of the fathers...
FDA to detain food shipments from China
The Associated Press | Los Angeles TimesNovember 13, 3008 WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials today ordered dozens of imported foods from China held at the border as possible health risks. Most are ethnic treats, including snacks, drinks and chocolates.It's unusual...
Wal-Mart pulls eggs from China stores amid chemical scare
By Robert J. Saiget | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 29, 2008 Wal-Mart said Tuesday it had pulled a major brand of eggs from its stores in China, as concerns rose that an industrial chemical found in...
Hong Kong tests more China food after egg scare
By MIN LEE | Associated Press Writer | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 26, 2008 HONG KONG - The discovery of excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese eggs has prompted Hong Kong authorities to expand testing to include...
Courts Compound Pain of China's Tainted Milk
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesOctober 17, 2008 The first sign of trouble was powder in the baby's urine. Then there was blood. By the time the parents took their son to the hospital, he had no urine...
Fourth China product has melamine (Philippines)
By Dona Pazzibugan | Philippine Daily Inquirer October 15, 2008 MANILA, Philippines -- A fourth locally available dairy product made in China was found to be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, the Bureau of Food and Drugs announced Wednesday. Lotte...
Lawyers' Outrage at Milk Case Ban
By RADIO FREE ASIA07 October 2008 Lawyers in China are warned against taking on cases related to a widening scandal over tainted milk. Chinese lawyers have slammed a government directive banning them from taking on cases related to the contaminated...
Vietnam finds tainted milk from China
By Associated Press - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsOctober 07, 2008 Vietnam finds 23 tainted milk products imported from China HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Melamine contamination has been found in 23 milk products imported into Vietnam from China, officials said Tuesday,...
China covered up milk scare to protect Olympics: critics
By Peter Harmsen | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 30, 2008 China knew about the contamination of milk products months ago but covered the scandal up to prevent it tarnishing the Beijing Olympics, according to journalists, rights...
Cadbury recalls HK chocolates
By BBC World NewsSeptember 29, 2008 The makers of Cadbury chocolates have decided to recall 11 products from shops in Hong Kong. The Asia-Pacific regional management of the British-based firm told the Hong Kong government that the recall was a...
China tainted food scandal expands
By ANITA CHANG, Associated Press Writer | The Associated PressSeptember 26, 2009 The Hong Kong government says it has found traces of melamine in baby cereals and crackers made in China in an expanding scandal over Chinese milk and other...
Nearly 13,000 hospitalized in China milk scandal
By Chris Buckley | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 22, 2008 The number of Chinese infants sick in hospital after drinking tainted milk formula doubled to nearly 13,000 and the country's top quality regulator resigned on Monday in the...
Tainted Milk Powder Banned Four Years Ago - But back on shelf with authorities' backup
By Xin Fei | The Epoch Times September 22, 2008 Deception that began four years ago continues, as the furore of tainted powdered milk causing kidney stones in babies spreads throughout China. The public learned, earlier this month, that milk...
China formula scare spreads to ice cream, yoghurt
By Ian Ransom | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 18, 2008 Hong Kong has ordered the recall of a Chinese company's products after milk, ice cream and yoghurt were found to be contaminated with melamine, the compound responsible for...
Toxic milk toll rockets in China
From BBC News15 September, 2008 A total of 1,253 Chinese children have fallen ill after drinking contaminated milk powder, and two babies have died, China's health ministry says. It confirmed the big jump in the numbers affected at a news...
FDA: Melamine found in baby formula made in China
By Elizabeth Weise | USA TODAYSeptember 12, 2008 The Food and Drug Administration is alerting Asian and ethnic markets across the USA that infant formula made in China may be contaminated. The FDA is working with state health agencies across...
Wary U.S. Olympians Will Bring Food to China
By Ben Shpigel | The New York Times 09 February 2008 When a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee went to a supermarket in China last year, he encountered a piece of chicken -- half of a breast...
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