amount should be 15 mg(Yuan 22). It is not the first time that the scandal of milk powder came out. In April, 2004, more than 200 infants in Anhui Province were diagnosed to have a disease, which caused the infants' heads to grow much bigger than normal ones. It was found that the substandard milk powder produced by a factory in Fuyang City, east China's Anhui Province, was the cause of the disease (Yuan 23). Soon after the Sanlu scandal, melamine was found in liquid milk and yogurts, frozen desserts
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Producers Be Solely Responsible for Food Safety Issues? Date of submission: 26 March 2012 Table of Content 1. Introduction 2. China Food Scandal 3. Analysis of China’s case 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Conflict: Business vs. Business Conflict: Business vs. Government Conflict: Society vs. Government Implementations and Critique 4. Taiwan Food Scandal 5. Analysis of Taiwan’s case 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Business Government Consumers Implementations and Critique 6. Alternative Solutions 6.1 6.2 6.3
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ch CHINESE MILK SCANDAL 2008 INTRODUCTION The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a food safety incident in the People's Republic of China, involving milk and infant formula, and other food materials and components, adulterated with melamine. By November 2008, China reported an estimated 300,000 victims, with six infants dying from kidney stones and other kidney damage, and a further 860 babies hospitalized. The chemical appeared to have been added to milk to cause it to appear to have higher
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China’s Tainted Baby Milk Powder: Rumored Control of Online News On July 16, 2008, it was announced that several Chinese producers of baby milk powder had been adding melamine, a chemical usually used in countertops, to increase the “richness” of their milk powder and to increase the protein count. Shockingly, the melamine-tainted milk powder was responsible for the deaths of four infants and the sickening of more than 6,200 more.1 Milk manufacturers had been using melamine as a low-cost way
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the world. Sanlu was the number one bestselling milk brand in China, responsible for 18.3 per cent of total national dairy sales in 2007.2 A year later, however, a scandal unfolded that brought not only Sanlu but other dairy manufacturers in China unwanted international attention. More than 290,000 infants were affected by this scandal, which involved deliberate tainting of milk powder. What motivated one of the most well trusted brands in China to engage in business practices that led to the deaths
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| Background Information In the past few years, we have seen numerous food safety scandals in China and rest of the world. Recycled cooking oil scandals, 2011 DEHP scandal, 2008 milk scandal, 2011 E.coli outbreak in Europe, 2006 E.coli outbreak in North America, and illegal additives in Red Bull, these are just
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Case Study The 2008 Chinese Milk Scandal Contents * Introduction * The Hand of Management * The Hand of Government * Employees * Customers * International * Conclusion * The Hand of Management According to our group study and discussion, we think that this company is extremely unethical, for they think only profits and ignore social responsibility. For this case, we refer to all the levels of managers, for example, the top manager, the middle manager, and the
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Food Policy 36 (2011) 412–420 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Food Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/foodpol The China melamine milk scandal and its implications for food safety regulation Xiaofang Pei a, Annuradha Tandon b, Anton Alldrick c, Liana Giorgi b,⇑, Wei Huang a, Ruijia Yang a a West China School of Public Health, Sichua University, Chengdu, China The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, Austria c Camden BRI Food
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An adulterant is a substance found within other substances (e.g. food, beverages, fuels), although not allowed for legal or other reasons. The addition of adulterants is called adulteration. An adulterant is distinct from, for example, permitted food additives. There can be a fine line between adulterant and additive; chicory may be added to coffee to reduce the cost—this is adulteration if not declared, but may be stated on the label. The term "contamination" is usually used for the inclusion of
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