BEIJING – Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves
in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of
children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a
government spokeswoman said Monday.
The
announcement calls into question the effectiveness of a crackdown
launched by Chinese officials to improve product safety after a number
of scandals, including the contamination of baby formula in 2008 and
the recent discovery of the toxic metal cadmium in cheap jewelry.
Frozen milk products and cartons of milk dating from early 2009 were taken off the shelves after health inspectors tested them and found melamine, said Ling Hu, a Guizhou provincial government spokeswoman. MORE>>>>>>>>>