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Heinz stops buying Chinese milk products Article from: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Washington October 01, 2008 04:44am US food group Heinz says it has decided to stop buying Chinese milk for use in its products in the wake of a giant tainted milk scandal that has left 53,000 children ill. "In order to reassure consumers about the safety of Heinz products, Heinz has made the strategic decision to switch our milk supply in China and Hong Kong to non-Chinese sources and we are testing all dairy ingredients for melamine prior to use in our factories," a spokesman for the...

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations is investigating whether a senior official at one of its agencies, Justin Leites, violated U.N. rules and the organization's spirit of international neutrality by taking a paid leave of absence last year to work as a Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign official in his home state of Maine.

Ketchup king hopes to use Olympic training restaurant bearing its name as an entree to sell more products In China, the Heinz name means baby food. Between 5 and 8 million of the 20 million babies born annually in the populous country will down a spoonful of the company's cereals before they turn into preschoolers. But the H.J. Heinz Co. wants to sell a lot more than just baby food to China, and the 2008 Olympics may serve as an entree. A year-old Heinz Western Restaurant at the Chinese government's Olympic sports training center in Beijing features Heinz ketchup bottles...