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I will copy the article here to save the click thru and in case it disappears.
The Chinese cop a lot of bashing over their quality and safety issues, This may give you some idea of how serious tainting of foodstuffs and chemical substitution is taken there.
I also have confirmation of some testing carried out by a biotech firm in the UK that in fact confirms that originally there were anomalies found by GC-MS testing of e-cig liquids in the first samples submitted for testing
"impure grades of glycols or ethers are used, aroma extracts can sometime bring in unwanted alcohols "
This has been relayed back to the manufacturers and acted upon... understandably these are commisioned reports and the actual results of the tests were not made available to me for obvious reasons , However this confirms to me that testing IS done outside of China and is taken seriously
Now to the article lol
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Men get death penalty over tainted milk
January 22, 2009, 6:58 pm
A Chinese court has sentenced two men to death for making and selling some of the tainted milk that killed six babies and sickened nearly 300,000 others, state media says.
Another man was given a suspended death sentence, while at least four others were given jail terms ranking from five years to life, Xinhua news agency said.
State media had reported earlier that verdicts would be given on Thursday for all 21 people who went on trial for their involvement in the scandal that last year killed at least six babies and left 294,000 others ill.
Immediately after the verdicts were announced, the Chinese government sought to show it was making great efforts to improve not only its milk industry, but all its food products, following numerous safety scandals in recent years.
"The Chinese government authorities have been paying great attention to food safety and product quality," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.
"After the case broke out, the Chinese government strengthened rules and regulations and took a lot of other measures to strengthen regulations and monitor food safety."
The former boss of the dairy firm at the heart of the scandal, Tian Wenchuan, and three of her colleagues were among those charged and awaiting verdicts.
Lawyers had previously said Tian, former head of the Sanlu Group, faced only a maximum penalty of life in prison, and not execution.
Sanlu was the first and biggest dairy producer found to have sold dairy products laced with melamine, a chemical used to make plastics which was mixed into watered-down milk to give the appearance of higher protein levels.
In all, 22 firms were found to have sold tainted milk, and the scandal led to contaminated Chinese dairy products being pulled off shelves around the world.
It was another major blow to the "Made-in-China" reputation that has suffered in recent years amid safety scandals over a wide range of exports, from toys to pet food and dumplings.
The government last month ordered the Chinese dairy firms to pay $US160 million ($A241 million) in compensation to the families of babies that died or fell ill.
However the families and their lawyers have repeatedly criticised the sum as woefully inadequate, with some parents of sick children not being given any money at all and others receiving just $US300 ($A452).
Over 200 families last week filed a suit with the Supreme Court, seeking more compensation.
The 213 families went to the top of the legal system because the government-ordered payment scheme failed to recognise some of them as victims, said Chang Lin, a farmer whose 18-month-old son died in August.
"They haven't given me any compensation. They haven't even recognised that my child died because of melamine," Lin told AFP.
He said the government had not even recognised his son had died from drinking tainted milk. "
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I will copy the article here to save the click thru and in case it disappears.
The Chinese cop a lot of bashing over their quality and safety issues, This may give you some idea of how serious tainting of foodstuffs and chemical substitution is taken there.
I also have confirmation of some testing carried out by a biotech firm in the UK that in fact confirms that originally there were anomalies found by GC-MS testing of e-cig liquids in the first samples submitted for testing
"impure grades of glycols or ethers are used, aroma extracts can sometime bring in unwanted alcohols "
This has been relayed back to the manufacturers and acted upon... understandably these are commisioned reports and the actual results of the tests were not made available to me for obvious reasons , However this confirms to me that testing IS done outside of China and is taken seriously
Now to the article lol
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Men get death penalty over tainted milk
January 22, 2009, 6:58 pm
A Chinese court has sentenced two men to death for making and selling some of the tainted milk that killed six babies and sickened nearly 300,000 others, state media says.
Another man was given a suspended death sentence, while at least four others were given jail terms ranking from five years to life, Xinhua news agency said.
State media had reported earlier that verdicts would be given on Thursday for all 21 people who went on trial for their involvement in the scandal that last year killed at least six babies and left 294,000 others ill.
Immediately after the verdicts were announced, the Chinese government sought to show it was making great efforts to improve not only its milk industry, but all its food products, following numerous safety scandals in recent years.
"The Chinese government authorities have been paying great attention to food safety and product quality," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.
"After the case broke out, the Chinese government strengthened rules and regulations and took a lot of other measures to strengthen regulations and monitor food safety."
The former boss of the dairy firm at the heart of the scandal, Tian Wenchuan, and three of her colleagues were among those charged and awaiting verdicts.
Lawyers had previously said Tian, former head of the Sanlu Group, faced only a maximum penalty of life in prison, and not execution.
Sanlu was the first and biggest dairy producer found to have sold dairy products laced with melamine, a chemical used to make plastics which was mixed into watered-down milk to give the appearance of higher protein levels.
In all, 22 firms were found to have sold tainted milk, and the scandal led to contaminated Chinese dairy products being pulled off shelves around the world.
It was another major blow to the "Made-in-China" reputation that has suffered in recent years amid safety scandals over a wide range of exports, from toys to pet food and dumplings.
The government last month ordered the Chinese dairy firms to pay $US160 million ($A241 million) in compensation to the families of babies that died or fell ill.
However the families and their lawyers have repeatedly criticised the sum as woefully inadequate, with some parents of sick children not being given any money at all and others receiving just $US300 ($A452).
Over 200 families last week filed a suit with the Supreme Court, seeking more compensation.
The 213 families went to the top of the legal system because the government-ordered payment scheme failed to recognise some of them as victims, said Chang Lin, a farmer whose 18-month-old son died in August.
"They haven't given me any compensation. They haven't even recognised that my child died because of melamine," Lin told AFP.
He said the government had not even recognised his son had died from drinking tainted milk. "
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