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Breast milk: more than 400 nutrients but no melamine

A brief Q&A with Xiao Wu, author and breastfeeding advocate, about effects the melamine baby formula scandal may have on child rearing habits in China.

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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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Male students barred from using dorm elevator in Nanjing

Yangtse Evening News (扬子晚报): Male students in a university in Nanjing are banned from using the elevator in their dormitory building.

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1,253 victims in Sanlu formula scandal

Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报): Sanlu president Zhang Zhenlin bowing during an public apology.

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Sanlu recalls 700 tons of melamine-tainted milk powder

South Metropolis Daily (南方都市报): The Shijiazhuang-based dairy producer Sanlu announced that the company will recall 700 tons of “baby milk powder”(婴幼儿奶粉) that was produced by August 6.

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