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Local authorities have been pressuring at least a half-dozen families of victims in China’s tainted milk scandal into dropping lawsuits demanding compensation...
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Tainted peanuts. Unsterilized syringes. Salmonella in Mexican chili peppers. A contaminated blood thinner from China that sent patients into life-threatening shock.
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For months, courts across China refused to accept the lawsuits from families whose children were killed or sickened in a tainted milk scandal. Now, in a turnaround,...
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Chinese courts have begun accepting lawsuits from families of children sickened in last year’s massive tainted milk scandal that highlighted the need for major...
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Fourteen people in southern China have been poisoned after eating pig organs suspected of containing an animal-feed additive, state media said Thursday, the second such...
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Court documents and federal officials say a North Carolina syringe factory linked to hundreds of sicknesses and five deaths went for almost two years without an...
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A North Carolina syringe factory linked to hundreds of sicknesses and five deaths operated for almost two years without an inspection despite a series of complaints...
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For months, prosecutors say, technicians in the gloom of a run-down North Carolina plant prepared life-sustaining syringes and shipped them before ensuring they were...
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A North Carolina company is accused of bypassing sterilization tests for medical syringes in a cost-cutting move prosecutors say sickened hundreds of patients and led...
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Two former workers at a North Carolina plant pleaded guilty for their roles in shipping bacteria-tainted syringes that prosecutors blamed for five deaths and hundreds...
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Two former workers at a North Carolina plant have pleaded guilty for their roles in shipping bacteria-tainted syringes that prosecutors blamed for five deaths and...
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The first extensive report into Britain’s tainted blood scandal stopped short Monday of blaming individual doctors or companies for what is widely viewed as the...
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A report into the use of contaminated blood that infected roughly 5,000 hemophiliacs in Britain with hepatitis C and HIV called Monday for increased financial help to...
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At least 70 people in southern China fell ill after eating pig organs contaminated by a banned animal feed additive, state media said Monday.
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A Chinese court plans to auction off the assets of the Chinese dairy at the heart of a tainted milk scandal that sickened hundreds of thousands of children and was...
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A dairy boss is appealing the life sentence she received for involvement in a tainted milk scandal that sickened hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, state media...
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U.S. makers of toys and other children’s products will get an extra year to comply with certain lead and chemical testing rules.
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New Zealand dairy trader Fonterra on Wednesday said it clearly told its Chinese partner that no amount of melamine was acceptable in its milk products but admitted...
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The Canadian food maker linked to a bacteria outbreak that caused at least 20 deaths and the country’s largest meat recall last year has again tested positive for...
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Chinese parents whose children were sickened after drinking contaminated milk pushed the government for greater accountability and compensation Friday, a day after a...
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The Chinese dairy that bought the company at the heart of a tainted milk scandal that sickened hundreds of thousands of children has launched a new line of milk powder...
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A network of Long Island gay and lesbian advocacy groups is honoring slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk this weekend.
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Local authorities have been pressuring at least a half-dozen families of victims in China’s tainted milk scandal into dropping lawsuits demanding compensation...
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Slain gay rights activist Harvey Milk is being honored posthumously by a network of gay and lesbian organizations in his native New York.
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For months, courts across China refused to accept the lawsuits from families whose children were killed or sickened in a tainted milk scandal. Now, in a turnaround,...
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Gov. Jim Doyle says Wisconsin dairy farmers hurt by a collapse in milk prices should get help soon from the federal government.
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Chinese courts have begun accepting lawsuits from families of children sickened in last year’s massive tainted milk scandal that highlighted the need for major...
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Fresh from his best actor Oscar for his performance as Harvey Milk, Sean Penn is pushing California to officially recognize the late gay politician’s birthday.
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Quality inspectors have found no melamine in infant formula produced by U.S. drug maker Wyeth, despite claims from about 20 families that said the milk caused kidney...
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Neighbours of “Slumdog Millionaire” child actor Mohammed Azharuddin Ismail watch the Oscars on television outside his shanty in Mumbai on February 23, 2009....
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Last night the 81st Annual Academy Awards aka the Oscars were on last night. I was kinda sorta watching it, but nowadays, I don’t really watch TV. I kinda just have...
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Winning 8 out of 10 nominations for Academy Award - including Best Picture and Best Director, the story itself is fantastic - full with colors of life - sad, hardship,...
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I went into the Oscars last night with a blasé attitude - honestly, I was more excited about the snacks I had prepared than the telecast, and fully anticipated turning...
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Slumdog Millionaire swept the board at the Oscars today, scooping eight awards and capping a great night for British talent.
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Sean Penn has his second best-actor Academy Award with his win in the title role of “Milk.”
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Chinese health officials are investigating a growing number of cases of kidney stones in babies, state media said Thursday, months after a tainted milk scandal in which...
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Chinese quality investigators have found that milk products from a unit of France’s Groupe Danone SA are melamine-free, and also said an unapproved additive used...
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Chinese quality investigators have found that milk products from a unit of France’s Groupe Danone SA are melamine-free and also said an unapproved additive used...
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A Chinese court plans to auction off the assets of the Chinese dairy at the heart of a tainted milk scandal that sickened hundreds of thousands of children and was...
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Shamrock Farms spokescow Roxie (left) greets youngsters at Valley View Mall at the Rockin’ with Roxie Dance Party in Roanoke, VA., Saturday February 28, 2009. The free event promoted family fitness and a donation was made to the local YMCA by Shamrock...
