China's Milk Crisis Hits Home

So far, as expatriates we've lived a life rather hidden from China's crisis'. We only buy our meat at fancy places and we imported all of our formula.

But we all drink the milk.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-09-18-china-liquid_N.htm

USA Today doesn't want me to reproduce the story so please read the link above, but the line making this story persoally relevant is the following:

"A report posted on the agency's website said test results show nearly 10% of samples taken from Mengniu Dairy Group Co. and Yili Industrial Group Co. — China's two largest dairy companies — contained up to 8.4 milligrams of melamine per kilogram. Milk from Shanghai-based Bright Dairy also shows melamine contamination."

Milk from Shanghai-based Bright Dairy currently sits on our shelf in two cartons - one for L-- and one for S--. They've been drinking this milk for nearly a year, and are as susceptible to the milk scare as any other child in China.

Melamine is related to cyanide and used in fertilizer. The melamine tainted milk has "been blamed in the deaths of four babies. More than 6,200 others have been sickened. Some 1,300 babies, mostly newborns, remain hospitalized, with 158 suffering from acute kidney failure."