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The 25‑kg bag that turned milk into poison and wrecked thousands
A leaked memo shows a PR firm asked Baidu to bury reports about Sanlu-how did that expose them?
The 25‑kg bag that turned milk into poison and wrecked thousands
In this episode, we trace how melamine entered China's infant formula supply and the decisions - corporate, municipal, and journalistic - that allowed contaminated milk to keep moving. What choices were made while hospitals filled and parents waited for answers?
Date: August 11, 2008
Company: Sanlu Group
Chemical: Melamine (with cyanuric acid)
Count: 300,000 children harmed; 51,900 hospitalized; 6 deaths
Product samples: up to 2,563…
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