Contaminated milk crisis continues
China's contaminated milk scandal continues to spread fear among parents.
For the fifth 3/ day, angry parents lined up outside the headquaters of dairy company San Lu to demand compensation after the government discovered it was using a poisonous industral chemical in its baby formula.
"They need to resolve the problems, "said this mother whose child became sick after drinking Sanlu’s formula.
Four infants have died of kidney failure from drinking the tainted milk and Chinese Health Ministry says more than 6,200 other babies have been taking ill. Many dignosed with the cute kidney failure.
The news sent thousands of parents across the country to hospitals demanding to have their children examined ,putting further pressure on the government to act.
"As a parent, I don’t know what to do." said this mother waiting outside the hospital in Beijing. "I am very worried".
The government says ,22 brands of formula containing melamine normally used in plastics, but put in food products to forcely boost protein contain, have been taken off store shelves but the crisis is no longer restricted to mainland in China.
Officials in HongKong and Singapore are recalling contaminated dairy products such as milk, yogurt and ice cream made by another one of the brands implicated in the scandal.
Today, Chinese Authority said they have arrested 12 people and dismissed several governmental officials for failing to deal with the initial reports of tainted baby formula.
Adrienne Mong, NBC News. BeiJing.