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Mainland China’s food safety watchdog has backtracked on its endorsement of baby milk powder exposed as fake, saying its earlier approval was aimed at preventing a panic. The case has also sparked questions from the public and media about why the government withheld information about the fake products for months after suspects were arrested. About 17,000 cans of formula sold in several provinces have been traced to a syndicate that took cheap milk powder or product with defective packaging and sold it under multiple brand names, some of them top-sellers. Why countries such as China pay price in lives for baby formula dependence Shanghai police began investigating the syndicate in September and arrested six people in January. |
