09/13/2008
Chinese authorities said on Saturday that they believed 432 babies across the country had been sickened by contaminated milk powder.
The government has ordered Sanlu Group, a dairy producer partly owned by New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra Co-operative Group, to halt production after a preliminary investigation found its products were responsible, officials said. "This is a severe food safety accident," Gao Qiang, a senior official at the Ministry of Health, told a news conference.
Sanlu, based in the province of Hebei, admitted this week that its baby formula had been contaminated with melamine, a toxin linked to the deaths and illness of thousands of pets in the United States last year.
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