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Melamine Contamination Caused by Corporate Greed, Import Liberalization, and Government Neglect
Oct 9 2008, Grace Calderon

Corporate greed, import liberalization, and lack of priority to local food production and to ensuring food safety are to be blamed for the entry of melamine-contaminated products in the Philippines.

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Another Chinese brand milk tests positive for melamine in the Philippines: Jolly Cow Low Fat Slender Milk
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Last week, Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk and Mengniu Drink, which have labels written in Chinese character, were found to contain traces of the toxic industrial chemical....
Health & Fitness, melamine, Yili milk, Mengniu milk
made popular Oct 8 2008
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China detains six suspected in milk scandal
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Chinese police have detained six people suspected of producing and selling melamine. The arrests were made during an investigation into melamine contamination at Yili...
Politics & Society, Yili milk, Mengniu milk, melamine
made popular Oct 8 2008
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What are the effects of Melamine?
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Some critics have suggested that China knew about the link between the sick babies and melamine-laced formula months ago — well before the Summer Olympics in Beijing...
Health & Fitness, melamine, China, Beijing Olympics
made popular Oct 5 2008
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China aware of tainted milk since December 2007, says report
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
A veteran Filipino journalist based in China said that the melamine milk scandal was already known to some Chinese officials as early as December last year but failed...
Politics & Society, melamine, China milk powder, toxic contamination
made popular Oct 5 2008
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Yili and Mengniu Chinese milk brands test positive for melamine in Philippines
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said only Greenfood Yili Fresh Milk and Mengniu Drink, which have labels written in Chinese character, were found to contain traces...
Health & Fitness, Yili milk, Mengniu milk, melamine
made popular Oct 3 2008
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Melamine found in Nestle milk products in Taiwan: minister
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Taiwan’s health minister said Thursday that six Nestle milk products were banned from sale after they were found to be tainted with melamine. The tainted items,...
Health & Fitness, melamine, Nestle, Klim
made popular Oct 3 2008
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China milk banned in Asia, Africa, European Union
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Four infants have died in China after being fed milk powder contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine which causes kidney stones and other complications when...
Politics & Society, melamine, Chinese milk ban, infant deaths
made popular Oct 1 2008
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China finds melamine in 31 milk powder products: govt
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
China has found the toxic industrial chemical melamine in 31 milk powder products. This represents 11.7 percent of a total of 265 products covered by the investigation,...
Health & Fitness, melamine, Chinese powdered milk and milk products, contamination
made popular Oct 1 2008
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Philippines looks into development of goat milk amid melamine scare
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
Government will develop the country’s goat industry, including giving financial support, in the light of reports that dairy products imported from China are...
Health & Fitness, goat milk, melamine, Chinese milk and milk products
made popular Oct 2 2008
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Melamine Scare in Kidney Stones Among Infants in the Philippines
Grace Calderon, Quezon City
The Philippines’ Health department ordered a nationwide records review of kidney stone cases in children after dozens of infants in China got sick from...
Health & Fitness, melamine, kidney stones, infants
made popular Sep 29 2008
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Seoul to Tighten Labeling Rule on Food
Chris Backe, Seoul
After the melamine-tainted milk in China found its way to Korea, Seoul responded by improving their food labeling requirements for imported food.
Health & Fitness, milk, China, melamine
made popular Sep 29 2008
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Chinese Products.. No good?
Justine, Bulacan
Economy crisis in the Philippines affect the lifestyle of so many Filipinos especially to those who were needy. But, despite of all these problems, we, Filipinos, tend...
Health & Fitness, china, melamine, milk
made popular Sep 28 2008
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Should China be trusted again with its tainted products?
View Point, Shimla
Beijing is battling public alarm and international dismay after close to 13,000 Chinese children crowded hospitals, ill from infant milk formula tainted with melamine,...
Business, Tainted Chinese products, melamine
made popular Sep 25 2008
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Fonterra in poison milk powder scandal
Byron Clark, Christchurch
It has been confirmed that at least two babies have died in China after drinking milk formula tainted with melamine, a substance used in plastics, fertilisers, glues...
Politics & Society, fonterra, milk powder, melamine
made popular Sep 17 2008
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The Hong Kong Market in New Haven, Conn., seen here Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008 is one of four stores in Connecticut where candy containing melamine was found.

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