China stuggles with fallout from tainted milk scandal

CHINA is struggling to contain the fallout from the tainted milk scandal, announcing a survey of melamine-free dairy products and promising to subsidise farmers hit by the scare.

The latest test of 609 batches of liquid milk from 27 cities across China detected no melamine, the industrial chemical at the centre of the dairy scare, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

Altogether 75 brands were sampled for the test, including prominent ones such as Yili, Mengniu and Bright Dairy, the paper said, citing China’s top product quality watchdog, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.