China seizes 22 companies with contaminated baby milk powder

Chinese inspectors have found the element melamine in 69 batches of baby milk powder created by 22 companies nationwide, the country's condition watchdog said tardy on Tuesday.

The authorities prepared a halt to the deal of the ruined food which included such well-known brands as Sanlu, Mengniu, Yili and Yashili, among others.

The State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said adversity samples came from 491 batches of yield sold by all the 109 companies that produced the baby milk powder in the country.

The melamine substance in the Sanlu kind reached 2,563 mg per kg, the utmost among all the samples. In other samples, the series was from 0.09 mg to 619 mg per kilogram.

Guangdong Yashili was the only brand being exported. No melamine was found in its samples.

The substance was not found in dairy harvest served for the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics.

No chemical was found in the liquid milk produced after Sept. 14.

Relevant departments have begun an investigation of the implicated companies to find out the problematic cause and punish those responsible.

The AQSIQ has also sent inspectors to every dairy effect factory in the country to keep a close inspect over every viewpoint of the production manage.

Dairy giant Sanlu Group apologized to the civic on Monday for its contaminated milk powder that had sickened 1,253 babies with kidney gravel, two gravely.

Tian Wenhua, the group's chair and general manager, was fired from her posts in the awaken of the scandal.

According to the Ministry of Health, the two deaths in Gansu were a five-month-old boy who died on May 1 after his family refused more dealing, and an eight-month-old lass whose family also refused a venture and impassive her from sickbay on July 22, the day she died.

Both being fed the Sanlu formula and suffered kidney stoppage.

Among the more than 1,200 sick babies, 53 had "relatively unsmiling symptoms," the office said at a news conference in Beijing on Monday.

Health Vice Ministered Ma Xiaowei said unique hospitals had been appointed nationwide to grant treatment for all the infants with the stones.

Melamine is used in plastics and other industries and is truly forbidden in food processing. Experts say it is added to raw milk so the protein comfort of the milk appears senior than it actually is.

Four people concerning the contamination were arrested by Hebei police.

Authorities have so far held 2,176 tons of milk powder in the warehouse of Sanlu Group. About 8,218 tons currently in the market had been recalled, said Shijiazhuang Vice Mayor Li Jinlu on Monday.

Another 700 tons was on its way back to Shijiazhuang, Li added. All the fouled milk powdered would be cracked.

Sanlu, which is 43 percent owned by New Zealand dairy circle Fonterra, was ordered to halt production.