Tag Archives: food safety

Sanlu ad spoofs

This series of spoof Sanlu ads has already been scrubbed from Chinese video sharing sites but is still on Youtube. The country bumpkin voice-over parodies the original ads, saying that Sanlu powder guarantees kidney stones etc.

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China’s quality regulator resigns…

Fallout from the melamine milk scandal: Li Changjiang, the chief of China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine has resigned.

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Time to buy shares in soy milk companies

Starbucks is serving only soy milk: could this be the start of a revival in the popularity of the traditional Chinese drink?

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Sanlu milk powder covers the Sahara

Sanlu’s September 2008 TV commercial for Western media, with the copy “For the past 15 years we have enough sale volume covered the entire sahara desert”. The ‘volume’ refers to milk powder.

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Provincial government admits wrongdoing in milk scandal

Dongguan Times (东莞时报): A news conference in which the Hebei vice governor told the media that melamine was tested in 2005.

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Abreast of the melamine milk scandal

Updates and translations of Internet comments about the Sanlu melamine milk scandal.

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New Zealand PM says milk scandal hushed up for weeks

More on the evolving San Lu melamine milk scandal and its connection to New Zealand dairy group Fronterra.

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Dog meat ban for Olympics

No dog meat for the Olympics.

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Multinationals and their sins in China

Excerpts from an article by Paul French: ‘Why is China different for western brands?’

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MSG is good

Debunking the MSG myth.

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