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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 wasÃÂ ...
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 formulaÃÂ ...
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 likeÃÂ ...
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," heÃÂ ...
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 informationÃÂ ...
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 secondÃÂ ...
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 producerÃÂ ...
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 300,000ÃÂ ...
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 responsibilityÃÂ ...
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 290,000ÃÂ ...
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 wasÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 16, 2018
The country's milk industry has recovered from the 2008 safety scandal, when infant formula produced by Sanlu Group, then a leading dairy company, was found to contain melamine, killing six babies and leaving thousands seriously ill. China produced 37.12 million tonnes of milk and 29.93 million tonnesÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 4, 2018
In 2008, infant formula produced by Sanlu Group, then a leading dairy company, was found to contain melamine, killing six babies and leaving thousands seriously ill. Since then, more cases have been discovered, plunging the industry into a years-long crisis and prompting Chinese consumers to turn toÃÂ ...
Coastweek
January 4, 2018
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 producerÃÂ ...
Xinhua
December 30, 2017
Sanlu, once a major dairy producer based in Hebei, went bankrupt after the scandal. "It does not matter if China has one less real estate developer, but I do hope I can make a difference in China's dairy industry," Xu said. Xu's decision was partly fueled by an unpleasant incident, when he was kept underÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
August 31, 2017
Sanlu Group, one of 22 companies that sold tainted formula, went bankrupt in December 2008. "After these incidents, we basically handed over the market to foreign companies," said chief scientist Wu Yongning at China National Centre for Food Safety Risk Assessment, referring to the 2008 case andÃÂ ...
Business Day
May 30, 2017
Sanlu has now published a catalogue, listing the dictionaries it has produced in its efforts to capture, protect and advance the use of all indigenous languages. The comprehensive collection includes monolingual dictionaries for isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Tshivenda, Siswati, Setswana, Xitsonga, SesothoÃÂ ...
TODAYonline
March 27, 2017
The case comes after the outcry in 2008 when at least six children died after some producers for the Sanlu Group were found to have added melamine to their products to make it look like watered-down milk was high in protein. The scandal shattered Chinese public confidence in domestic milk powderÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
October 24, 2016
Think back to 2008 when news emerged that employees working for Fonterra's Chinese partner Sanlu had tainted infant formula with melamine, a chemical used in manufacturing plastics and fertilisers. Six children died and 300,000 were made ill. A dairy farmer and milk salesman were executed for theirÃÂ ...
Global Times
October 11, 2017
... kidney damage due to being fed melamine-contaminated infant formula along with other food materials produced by Sanlu Group, a leading ...
The Straits Times
August 31, 2017
Sanlu Group, one of 22 companies that sold tainted formula, went bankrupt in December 2008. "After these incidents, we basically handed over ...
Business Day
May 30, 2017
Sanlu is tackling that by producing dictionaries in each of the indigenous languages, both monolingual and in bilingual formats that translate ...
TODAYonline
March 27, 2017
The case comes after the outcry in 2008 when at least six children died after some producers for the Sanlu Group were found to have added ...
Stuff.co.nz
October 24, 2016
Think back to 2008 when news emerged that employees working for Fonterra's Chinese partner Sanlu had tainted infant formula with melamine ...
DairyReporter.com
June 13, 2014
Decentralized milk supply chains were largely to blame for the melamine scandal that bankrupted China's Sanlu in 2008, but its partner ...
CNN
January 22, 2009
SHIJIAZHUANG, China (CNN) -- The former chairwoman of China's Sanlu dairy was sentenced to life in prison and three others received death ...
Independent Online
September 8, 2017
Previous applications to sue Sanlu Group Co., the dairy at the center of the scandal, in lower courts in Hebei, where the company is based,ÃÂ ...
Independent Online
September 8, 2017
Tian Wenhua, who was general manager and chairperson of Sanlu Group Co, the dairy at the heart of the scandal, is the highest profile officialÃÂ ...
Independent Online
September 6, 2017
... Court in Hebei province had upheld the original verdict on Tian Wenhua, general manager and chairwoman of the now-defunct Sanlu Group.
Independent Online
September 6, 2017
The incident led to Chinese dairy product recalls and bans around the world, and the former boss of Sanlu, the firm at the heart of the scandal,ÃÂ ...
The Independent
September 4, 2017
The local authorities in Hebei, where the powder-maker Sanlu was based, had learnt about the tainted milk for a month before Sanlu finallyÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
September 1, 2017
Sanlu Group, one of 22 companies that sold tainted formula, went bankrupt in December 2008. "After these incidents, we basically handed overÃÂ ...
China.org.cn
August 17, 2017
Melamine was at the center of a food safety scandal in 2008 in China, when infant formula produced by Sanlu Group, then a leading dairyÃÂ ...
Business Day (registration)
May 30, 2017
Sanlu is tackling that by producing dictionaries in each of the indigenous languages, both monolingual and in bilingual formats that translateÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
October 24, 2016
Think back to 2008 when news emerged that employees working for Fonterra's Chinese partner Sanlu had tainted infant formula with melamineÃÂ ...
Radio New Zealand
August 27, 2014
Fonterra's first partnership in China, with the Sanlu dairy company, ended in disaster when that company was implicated in the melamine milkÃÂ ...
DairyReporter.com
June 13, 2014
Decentralized milk supply chains were largely to blame for the melamine scandal that bankrupted China's Sanlu in 2008, but its partnerÃÂ ...
Sunday Star Times
August 7, 2010
By coincidence, Fonterra's joint venture partner Sanlu found out at the same time its infant milk food was poisoned with industrial chemicalÃÂ ...
Quartz
December 31, 1999
In that case, the local authorities in Hebei, where the powder-maker Sanlu was based, knew about the tainted milk for a month before SanluÃÂ ...
TODAYonline
March 27, 2017
The case comes after the outcry in 2008 when at least six children died after some producers for the Sanlu Group were found to have added melamine to their products to make it look like watered-down milk was high in protein.
Sixth Tone
March 6, 2017
In 2008, news reports claimed that Baidu took payments in return for deleting negative news on Sanlu Group, a dairy product company that sold milk powder containing melamine, a plastic ingredient, which led to the deaths of six children.
ThePoultrySite.com
March 3, 2017
Food safety has been a concern for many Chinese families, in particular after the melamine scandal of 2008, when thousands of infants were sickened after ingesting melamine-tainted infant formula made by Sanlu Group. Melamine, a chemical used inÃÂ ...
ThePigSite.com
March 2, 2017
Food safety has been a concern for many Chinese families, in particular after the melamine scandal of 2008, when thousands of infants were sickened after ingesting melamine-tainted infant formula made by Sanlu Group. Melamine, a chemical used inÃÂ ...
ecns
February 27, 2017
Food safety has been a concern for many Chinese families, in particular after the melamine scandal of 2008, when thousands of infants were sickened after ingesting melamine-tainted infant formula made by Sanlu Group. Melamine, a chemical used inÃÂ ...
Forbes India
February 23, 2017
Even though the response of the authorities was swift and firm, involving an investigation of Sanlu, then the fourth largest Chinese dairy company, for adding melamine to its powder and the sentencing of Sanlu's chairwoman to life imprisonment ...
INSEAD Knowledge
February 20, 2017
Even though the response of the authorities was swift and firm, involving an investigation of Sanlu, then the fourth largest Chinese dairy company, for adding melamine to its powder and the sentencing of Sanlu's chairwoman to life imprisonment ...
Sixth Tone
February 9, 2017
In 2008, milk powder and baby formula produced by dairy company Sanlu Group was found to contain the industrial chemical melamine, which killed four infants and made more than 50,000 people - most of them young children - sick.
DairyReporter.com
January 10, 2017
Imported milk formula brands became popular in China following the 2008 Melamine scandal, where melamine-tainted products from local firm Sanlu caused the death of six babies and illness of 300,000 infants. This sad event saw an opportunity for foreignÃÂ ...
BeverageDaily.com
January 9, 2017
Yet Domestic milk powder makers had dominated the Chinese market before a melamine scandal in 2008, when the biggest manufacturer at the time, Sanlu, was found to be adding an industrial chemical to its products following the death of six babies andÃÂ ...
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