Dozens of Chinese babies die from malnutrition after being fed fake formula

DOZENS of babies in eastern China have died from malnutrition after being fed fake milk formula with virtually no nutritional value.

The deaths prompted demands from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao for a “thorough investigation and severe punishment” of the formula’s manufacturers, according to the official China Daily.

Up to 200 babies in the impoverished inland province of Anhui who were fed the formula developed what doctors called “big head disease”, causing the infants’ heads to grow abnormally large while their bodies wasted away.