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To: FJB who wrote (465019)	1/13/2012 8:14:37 PM
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11/24/2009 - Pair Executed Over China Tainted Baby Milk 8:54am UK, Tuesday November 24, 2009 news.sky.com Peter Sharp, China correspondent Two men have been executed for their part in China's tainted milk scandal. Both men faced a firing squad for their part in producing and selling contaminated milk that left tens of thousands of babies sick and six babies dead. The milk was contaminated with melamine, which can cause kidney failure and kidney stones. Melamine is an industrial chemical used in the manufacture of plastics and fertilisers. When added to the watered-down milk it gave a false protein level which fooled local safety inspectors testing for protein levels. Many Chinese are suspicious that the tainted milk scandal was covered up by companies in the months prior to the Olympic Games in August 2008. Warnings from parents and doctors were ignored, they say. Geng Jinping and Zhang Yujun were executed with a bullet to the back of the neck. Geng, who managed a milk production centre in Hebei Province, was sentenced to death last year for selling hundreds of tons of tainted milk. Zhang, a cattle farmer, was given the death penalty for producing the so-called "protein powder" containing Melamine. Tia Wenhau, a 66-year-old woman, was given a life sentence at the trial. She was the highest ranking executive charged in the food safety scandal. The harsh sentences are an indication of China's determination to crack down hard on those involved in food safety issues. The milk scandal was one of China's worst food safety blunders and was a cause of huge embarrassment to the Chinese government, breaking just after the euphoria of the summer Olympics last year. Hundreds of families whose children were sickened tried to sue the milk-producing companies. But the government offered one-time payouts using money from the dairies, which prevents families suing for more unless they can prove they were forced into the plan. * * *