A toxic milk scare was thwarted after 3 were detained for selling over 5 tons of milk powder tainted with melamine. From Ben Blanchard for Reuters, via the New York Times:
Chinese police have detained three people suspected of selling milk powder tainted with melamine, state media said on Thursday, the industrial chemical involved in a massive toxic food scandal last year.
The three were detained in northwestern Shaanxi province on December 2, before tainted goods reached stores, the official Xinhua news agency said.
It named the three as Liu Ping, general manager of Shaanxi Jinqiao Diary Company, and two of the firm’s employees and said they were detained for “the suspected crime of producing and selling toxic food.”
The report, citing police, said they sold 5.25 tons of melamine-laced milk powder to Nanning Yueqian Food Additive Company, based in the southern region of Guangxi.
Update: See also “Shaanxi dairy repackages melamine-tainted milk powder” from Danwei.
