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More than 1,200 infants sick in China tainted milk scandal (1,253 babies have kidney stone)
Kyodo News ^
| 09/15/08
Posted on 09/15/2008 5:52:55 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; maui_hawaii; Jeff Head; Tainan; hedgetrimmer; Unam Sanctam; taxesareforever; ...
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posted on
09/15/2008 5:53:41 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
This is rearing it ugly head here on Taiwan. Its been found and is being tracked. Seems it hit here back at the end of June so it has already made it to distributors and into some end-users.
There was a news story tonight with angry people throwing baked goods at a store-owner who was rumored to have used the powder in his pastries. Don’t really know if he did or not. The gov’t is doing what they can to track the stuff.
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posted on
09/15/2008 5:57:43 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
About 10,000 tons of milk powder are to be recalled and destroyed in China.
Or used in some other product.
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posted on
09/15/2008 5:59:16 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Voting Conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
To: Tainan
Reportedly, 15 metric tons of them was imported into Taiwan. Is that right?
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:00:26 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: KylaStarr; Cindy; StillProud2BeFree; nw_arizona_granny; Velveeta; Dolphy; appalachian_dweller; ...
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:00:29 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
To: cripplecreek
On its way to us as Cremora or Betty Crocker, ummm China, kidney stone and food poisoning goodness.
To: TigerLikesRooster; American in Israel; SJackson
Don’t I remember Israel having a tainted baby milk scandal a few years ago?
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:01:33 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
To: Calpernia
Well, my memory is sketchy on that one. It could have.
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:03:03 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
It seems to me that an alternate protein assay method could be used which does not depend on the measurement of primary amines as an indicator of protein content. That would reduce the temptation to put poisons such as melamine into food powders. I believe the melamine can be tested for separately, as well, maybe using HPLC.
Anyway, so much for the technical comment. My heart goes out to those babies and their parents. May God comfort them.
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:06:50 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: exDemMom
I heard kidney stone causes excruciating pain. Not something you would put your baby through.
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:09:34 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Some exec is gonna catch a bullet to the back of the noggin.
Just sayin’.
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:09:50 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: SJSAMPLE
On the upside, somebody will find a matching organ donor.
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:10:45 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(kim jong-il, chia head, ppogri, In Grim Reaper we trust)
To: cripplecreek
To: TigerLikesRooster
I’m not sure of the amount. I heard something on the radio and it seemed like it might be in that area. My Mando is lousy and my Taiwanese isn’t much better.
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:19:04 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: TigerLikesRooster; All
I heard kidney stone causes excruciating pain. Not something you would put your baby through.
I've had a couple of kidney stones in my time and the pain is as close to giving birth (so I've been told) that any man wants to get. It is agony and lasts for hours.
In this case, the always vigilant ChiCom authorities will move swiftly to combine the baby powder manufacturing facilities with the famous world class quality 'Happy Toothpaste & Antifreeze Factory #9' and there will be no more problems.
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:19:07 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history. (Obama is his 2nd term))
To: TigerLikesRooster
Melamine must be the new MSG.
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:54:06 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Amazing how Obama, Rangel, Biden and Dodd all got killer mortgage rates and below cost property.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
IIRC, Melamine is what caused the dog food scare in the US when Chinese farmers tried to artificially increase the protien content of their grain products sold to the US and Canadian pet companies.
Now they are poisoning their own children.....
Lovely, the chinese people should tar and feather these company owners....then their government officials...
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posted on
09/15/2008 6:54:34 AM PDT
by
nevergore
("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
To: nevergore
...tar and feather... More like lead and gunpowder.
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posted on
09/15/2008 7:01:58 AM PDT
by
Max in Utah
(A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
To: nevergore
I believe the Chinese have executed company officials as corrective action in these kinds of cases.
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posted on
09/15/2008 7:03:37 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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