Posted on 02/08/2009 12:20:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
The scandal over tainted milk powder led to a 10 percent fall in Chinese dairy exports by volume and a rise in foreign imports last year, state media said Saturday, citing the customs department.
Dozens of countries pulled Chinese dairy products from their shelves in 2008 after it emerged that the industrial chemical melamine had been added to milk to artificially boost its protein content.
"Lots of foreign countries stopped importing dairy products from China, and the country's milk industry suffered severely," the Xinhua news agency quoted a customs report as saying.
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Whoops. Looks like someone is going to receive a bullet to the back of the head. Then they will bill the family for the cost of the bullet.
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