Two men were executed in China yesterday for their involvement in China’s contaminated milk scandal that killed six babies and made 300,000 ill, according to reports. The men had been sentenced to death earlier this year by a court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang for producing and selling toxic ingredients that ended up in the infant milk powder. Milk producer Geng Jinping was convicted of producing and selling toxic food to dairy companies. Tian Wenhua, former chairman of the Sanlu Group,... ...Read more »

China’s fledgling and buoyant dairy industry was brought to its knees after last year’s melamine scandal but, slowly, there are signs growth is returning to the sector. Beijing has ordered China’s dairies to tighten up their supply chains and the country’s top processors are highlighting those moves to convince consumers their milk is safe. Mark Godfrey reports from Beijing. The marketing gloves are back off in China’s dairy industry. Almost a year on from the melamine... ...Read more »

Sanlu, the company at the centre of the recent melamine scandal in China, has been declared bankrupt by a Chinese court. The Intermediate People’s Court of Shijiazhuang issued the bankruptcy order at the first meeting of Sanlu’s creditors yesterday. Sanlu Group debts had climbed above the value of their assets in the wake of the scandal, with the group forced to borrow 902 million yuan (A$201 million) to pay the medical fees of children made ill by its melamine tainted baby formula and... ...Read more »

Two men accused of contaminating China’s milk supply have been sentenced to death by a Chinese court, while the former Chairwoman of Sanlu – the company at the centre of the scandal – will spend the rest of her life behind bars. The criminal contamination of milk with the chemical melamine was discovered in September last year, sparking a spate of recalls around the world. In the aftermath it was discovered that around 294,000 infants had fallen ill as a result of consuming contaminated... ...Read more »