Updates on Chinese Milk Formula Contamination -cont- #8

Here are news links to the Chinese Melamine baby milk contamination:

Melamine policy was clear: Ferrier Fonterra told its Chinese subsidiary Sanlu that it should not handle any milk with melamine, chief executive Andrew Ferrier said yesterday. (Otago Times, 01/29/2009)

Convicted Sanlu boss blames Fonterra Former Sanlu chairwoman Tian Wenhua, 66, sentenced last week to life in prison, says a Fonterra-appointed director gave her a document stating the European Union's permitted levels of the industrial chemical melamine. Fonterra chief executive Andrew Ferrier confirmed to the Herald yesterday that Tian had been given a document by a Fonterra board member. However, he said Fonterra was "vividly clear" to Sanlu that the only acceptable level of melamine was zero. (New Zealand Herald, 01/28/2009)

Conviction in Sanlu case just a start The convictions of Tian, members of Sanlu's top management and others involved in adding melamine to raw milk will not close to the scandal. (China Daily, 01/22/2009)