China Expects More Melamine Scandals

China is expecting more food safety breaches following the seizure of 64t of melamine-tainted milk products in three provinces.

China health supervision bureau director Su Zhi said that China’s size and large population made it hard to avoid all food safety threats and to put “unscrupulous businessmen” under scrutiny.

Su Zhi, however, refused to comment on whether the seized dairy products were leftovers of the melamine-tainted milk powder that killed six infants and sickened 300,000 people in 2008.

In February, China launched a ten-day programme in the dairy industry and vowed to track down and destroy all leftover dairy products from the 2008 scandal.