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A FATHER who campaigned for compensation for his five-year-old son and other 300,000 sickened by tainted milk in 2008 was sentenced to two and a half years in jail for inciting social disorder yesterday in Beijing. Zhao Lianhai, a 38-year-old former employee of a newspaper under China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, was accused of organizing illegal gatherings under the pretext of seeking justice for victims in the melamine-laced milk scandal in cities such as Shijiazhuang of Hebei Province and Daxing District in Beijing during 2008 and 2009, Modern Express reported today. Zhao was also accused of...

A scandal over tainted infant formula spread Monday as authorities acknowledged as many as 10,000 babies may have ingested milk powder laced with the same chemical found in contaminated pet-food exports last year that caused scores of U.S. animals to die. Melamine, a chemical in making plastics and fertilizers, has been used by Chinese businesses to boost protein readings in animal feed and other food products. Pet foods containing melamine-laced ingredients traced to China sickened and killed thousands of dogs and cats in the U.S. last year. Many infants who were fed Sanlu milk powder were stricken with kidney stones....