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Stuff.co.nz
March 25, 2018
While the Sanlu melamine milk tainting scandal preceded Spierings, there were repeated troubles under his watch. Fonterra and MPI sat quietly on news that trace levels of nitrogen inhibitor DCD had been discovered in milk. When in early 2013 the news was inconspicuously announced, in a way it wasÃâà...
Newsroom
March 10, 2018
Interviews with some other knowledgeable Westerners in China, however, describe an even bleaker picture. Over the past decade, Fonterra has suffered three traumas in China: - In 2008, Sanlu, in which Fonterra held a 43 percent stake, went bust because it was the central player in a tainted infant formulaÃâà...
The News Lens International
March 9, 2018
Although the poisoning was officially laid at the feet of the state-owned Sanlu Group, there was a wide consensus that the addition of melamine to mask the watering of milk was in fact endemic throughout the industry, which relied on long and poorly supervised production chains. Even giant processors likeÃâà...
Agrimoney.com
March 9, 2018
Fonterra - which termed as a “game changer” its 2015 Beingmate deal, which saw it pay $553m for a minority stake - has already seen one Chinese investment go awry, when the Sanlu company it purchased a 43% stake emerged in 2008 at the centre of the infamous melamine milk contamination scandal.
New Zealand Herald
March 4, 2018
"I think that there is major concern about this whole Beingmate thing, but putting it a bit wider than that, there is this whole strategy in China, because obviously there is SanLu, China Farms and this thing (Beingmate) - there's three -" he said. "It's serious capital even for a company the size of Fonterra," heÃâà...
Newsroom
February 27, 2018
Newsroom Pro is Newsroom's twin publication - an online subscription news service based in Wellington, reporting on politics, business and the economy from around the Beehive. The Newsroom Pro team is headed by Bernard Hickey and publishes news, analysis, commentary, and informationÃâà...
Newsroom
February 17, 2018
The first was Sanlu. The co-op bought a 43 percent stake in the Chinese milk processor in 2005. Three years later, Sanlu was the main culprit in China's scandal of melamine-tainted infant formula. Sanlu was prosecuted and bankrupted. Fonterra lost its entire $250m investment in the company. The secondÃâà...
Xinhua
December 30, 2017
The market is dominated by several giants such as Yili and Mengniu, and Chinese consumers are turning to overseas milk products, especially after melamine-tainted baby formula produced by China's Sanlu Group killed six children and made 300,000 sick in 2008. Sanlu, once a major dairy producerÃâà...
South China Morning Post
December 21, 2017
In 2008, a state-owned Chinese dairy products company called Sanlu was destroyed by a scandal over milk powder that had been contaminated with melamine, a toxic chemical used to create the illusion of a higher protein count but which caused kidney stones and other ailments. An estimated 300,000Ãâà...
DairyReporter.com
June 13, 2014
Writing in the International Journal of Production Economics this month, Chen et al. use Sanlu's demise – bankrupt by the December 2008 – as a case study to draw out managerial and policy insights and implications regarding supply chain design, informational visibility, corporate social responsibilityÃâà...
CNN
December 26, 2008
Baby formula produced by Sanlu -- previously one of China's leading dairy producers -- was first flagged in the scandal when it recalled about 700 tons of the powdered milk in September after discovering the product was contaminated with melamine. The poisonings killed six babies and sickened 290,000Ãâà...
Stuff.co.nz
December 31, 1999
Earlier it held a 43 per cent stake in dairy company Sanlu, which was at the centre of a scandal in 2008 involving milk powder tainted with the chemical melamine, leading to the deaths of six babies and hospitalisation of tens of thousands of others. How much did it invest in Beingmate? When the deal wasÃâà...
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