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Retracing the Path Toxic Powder Took To Food in China

SHIJIAZHUANG, China -- Xue Jianzhong never posted a sign on his ground-floor shop, but somehow everyone knew what he was selling. Customers from all over this dairy farming region in the northeastern province of Hebei flocked to Xue's dusty street to buy special concoctions that he said would make...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-07-2008
Financial Meltdown Worsens Food Crisis

SHANGHAI -- As shock waves from the credit crisis began to spread around the world last month, China scrambled to protect itself. Among the most extreme measures it took was to impose new export taxes to keep critical supplies such as grains and fertilizer from leaving the country.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-25-2008
Chinese cities wake up to a new superfood: yak milk

Yak milk said to be considerably higher in calcium, vitamin A and amino acids than ordinary milk

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 10-04-2008
Orang-utans and lion latest victims of China milk scandal

Animals reared on tainted milk powder suffer from kidney stones as contamination reaches zoos and wildlife parks

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 09-25-2008
13,000 in hospital from tainted milk

Head of China's quality watchdog resigns as melamine scandal spreads to more than 20 companies

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 09-22-2008
No milk today

Why can't China guarantee safe milk for its babies? "From the outset, in what seemed like some bizarre parallel universe, rather than alert Chinese parents as soon as possible to potentially life-saving information about the melamine contamination, baby formula producer Sanlu and various levels...

Posted to xml.metafilter.com (Weblog) by xml.metafilter.com on 09-21-2008
China toxin scandal spreads to liquid milk

Tests find industrial chemical in liquid milk produced by three of the country's leading dairy companies

Posted to guardian.co.uk (Weblog) by guardian.co.uk on 09-19-2008
China’s Shift on Food Was Key to Trade Impasse

The negotiations foundered on the right of developing countries to protect critical agricultural products from competition in exchange for cutting tariffs on imported industrial goods.

Posted to nytimes.com (Weblog) by nytimes.com on 07-30-2008
China’s Shift on Food Was Key to Trade Impasse

Once a strong defender of free trade, China insisted at trade talks in Geneva that developing countries be allowed to impose high tariffs on food imports from affluent countries.

Posted to partners.userland.com (Weblog) by partners.userland.com on 07-30-2008
Trade Talks Broke Down Over Chinese Shift on Food

Once a strong defender of free trade, China insisted at trade talks in Geneva that developing countries be allowed to impose high tariffs on food imports from affluent countries.

Posted to nytimes.com (Weblog) by nytimes.com on 07-30-2008

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