BEIJING, Oct 26, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Nearly 25 percent of Beijing children
under age 3 reportedly drank chemically tainted milk, said officials who
conducted a massive door-to-door survey.
Families of 75,474 young children said they had given their children Sanlu milk
powder, which later was found to be tainted with the industrial chemical
melamine, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency reported.
A total 307,779 families with children under age 3 were surveyed in Beijing from
Sept. 20 through Oct. 24 in the first screening of its kind ever to take place
in China, Xinhua reported Sunday.
At least three babies have died and more than 50,000 have been sickened since
the tainted milk scandal was publicly revealed in July, Xinhua reported.
An investigation of China's dairy products industry determined melamine was
added to substandard or diluted milk to give the appearance of higher protein
levels, Xinhua reported.
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