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China's baby-milk scandal

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Sep 18th 2008 | SHIJIAZHUANG

From The Economist print edition

A scandal in China over deadly baby milk

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“QUALITY and safety are the foundations of social harmony,” proclaim
posters at the headquarters of the Sanlu Group in Shijiazhuang, capital
of China’s northern province of Hebei. Sanlu was until recently one of
China’s biggest producers of milk powder. Now, dozens of people, many
clutching infants, queue in the hot sun outside to return powder that
could be contaminated with a potentially lethal chemical. The harmony of
China’s consumers has rarely been so tested.