Melamine in Milk Originally Imported from New Zealand

The whole tainted infant milk ordeal saw a sharp U-turn when it was discovered that ingredients imported from New Zealand had been mixed with melamine already. It has been confirmed by test of samples both in China, and those in New Zealand that 'lactoferrin', a key ingredient in infant formula produced in New Zealand, had been mixed with melamine.

New Zealand is the largest dairy producing country with most number of cows in the world, and manufactures around the world use lactoferrin produced in New Zealand to process infant formula. The suspected source was traced back to a company named Tatua. Tatua is one of the largest company of its kind. Retrospectively thinking, it's reasonable that among all the Chinese powder milk that had been found to be tainted by melamine, Sanlu, which New Zealand dairy producer Fonterra holds 43% share, is the worst.

It's such a shame that China did not test import dairy product carefully. As of today, it was reported melamine had caused at least 4 infant death, and tens of thousands babies hospitalized.

The New Zealand Food Safety Authority released a statement on September 24, 2008 that the level of melamine found in New Zealand product was low, probably came as "an unintended outcome of the manufacturing process".

Tatua's CEO Paul McGilvary said Tatua had voluntarily suspended its production, although he insisted that melamine found in lactoferrin produced by the New Zealand dairy producer was not a health risk to human. Tatua's board is to meet on September 30, 2008 to discuss the melamine issue.

Japanese Volunteers Helped Earthquake Rebuild

Japanese volunteers helped Sichuan Earthquake rebuild. September 11, 2008, another temporary elementary school welcomed new semester. Unlike hundreds of mass production temporary schools set up in the quake area, this one will be remembered as a master piece in architecture history.


The Chengdu Hualin Elementary School is designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban with 'paper tube' technology. The main structure is made of mass products of recyclable materials paper tube, wooden joint and steel cables. The design features excellent ventilation and temperature control in the area known for hot and high humidity. Construction materials are easy to build and will be easy to recycle or reuse.

The project is a collaborative effort among Chinese and Japanese volunteers. Thank you Japan.

Dead Horses Galloping

With the endless media attention on the poisonous powder milk incident, you would thought one more attempt to blame the government to be beating a dead horse. After all, even according to official figures, thousands of infants had been hospitalized, with hundreds of kidney failures and the death toll had been keep mounting. You know what? This magic world is full of surprise. Do you see that dead horse galloping?

1) The central Communism government told its citizen low doze of melamine is safe, citing US FDA research;
2) Local government issued an order that the Sanlu Dairy stopped reimbursing examination fees for infants who had drank Sanlu infant formula;
3) The Health Ministry, whose top official Mr. Gao Qiang had been named to lead the national task force in handling the poisonous powder milk scandal, issued an order that infants with kidney stones smaller than 4mm should not receive medical assistance.

The Prime Minister Mr. Wen Jiabao is coming to New York City to address the U.N. How shall we show our appreciation to Mr. Premier?

Pretty Woman, Walkin' Down the Street

38 years old pretty woman Xie Jingling fell victim of her blog writing hobby, where she posted in detail, without details of specific encounters though, her sexual relationships with other males. In one incident, she was the only female director on a five person board, and with each of the four male directors aged 28 to 58 on the board, she had a romantic history.

People expect, and understand, pretty women have privileges. Ordinary people have only rare opportunities to appreciate beauties from a distance, but Jingling's blog gives them a chance to peek and wow. Curious readers also learned about her sexual life with her husband, which was 'always the best' as she noted one morning. She wrote about 'trivial stuff', such as taking classes, work, family, Mom, and her 3 years old baby. She wrote about her disappointment of her meeting with her college sweetheart in Canada, and pregnancy of her husband's ex-girlfriend. She wrote about her lovers, her lovers' lovers. Her stories scatter around places in China, Canada and the US, in cars, parks, hotels. At the same time, she is a young, nonetheless senior official overseeing a industrial park of national significance.

It's just fascinating to learn what a colorful life a (Chinese) pretty woman enjoys. I would certainly vote for her if whoever next 'core' picked her up as his running-mate.

Pretty woman walkin down the street
Pretty woman, the kind I like to meet
Pretty woman, I dont believe you
Youre not the truth
No one could look as good as you
Mercy

Pretty woman, wont you pardon me
Pretty woman, I couldnt help but see
Pretty woman, and you look lovely as can be
Are you lonely just like me

Pretty woman, stop a while
Pretty woman, talk a while
Pretty woman, give your smile to me
Pretty woman, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pretty woman, look my way
Pretty woman, say youll stay with me

Cause I need you
Ill treat you right
Come with me baby
Be mine tonight

Pretty woman, dont walk on by
Pretty woman, dont make me cry
Pretty woman, dont walk away
Ok

If thats the way it must be, ok
I guess Ill go on home, its late
Therell be tomorrow night

But wait, what do I see?
Is she walking back to me?
Yeah, shes walking back to me
O-oh
Pretty woman

Reporter Arrested in Malaysia

A Malaysia reporter was arrested on Sept 12, 2008. Tan Hoon Cheng is a reporter of Sin Chew Daily. She reported on an official's racial remarks, and was arrested under 'the Internal Security Act (ISA)'. A popular blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin was also arrested the same day citing the ISA for being a threat to security, peace and public order. Three newspapers received 'show cause letters' issued by the Home Ministry.

A Muslim senior government official, Bukit Bendera MP Ahmad Ismail proclaimed Chinese in Malaysia were squatters. The remarks were made frequently in his recent election campaigns. After the news coverage, the ruling party Ahmad belongs suspended his membership.

ISA is a form of martial law, where police does not disclose the cause of the arrest, and a court warrant is not needed. A comparable incident in the US would be the reporter who broke out the story of Rev. Wright saying 'God Damn America' in font of Sunday morning crowd to be detailed by the FBI on terrorism charges, and then sent to a undisclosed location in Poland by CIA.

A Timeline of the Sanlu Milk Case

Date	Progress	Source of Information
9/16/2008	Another infant was confirmed died from using Fonterra Sanlu powder milk	Fonterra
9/15/2008	Melamine was detected from products of Haoniu Dairy of Gansu Pronvince. Haoniu is a partner of Fonterra Sanlu, and follow Fonterra Sanlu production guideline	Xinhua News
9/15/2008	Fonterra's CEO Andrew Ferrier refused to take responsibility for not having gone public six weeks earlier when he first learned of the crisis	Andrew Ferrier
9/14/2008	Reporting and Discussion of the case was banned by The Propaganda Department of the CCP, except that by the official Xinhua News Agency	Internet Cache
9/13/2008	hundreds of thousands little kids flooded hospitals around the country to do ultrasound scan, which revealed 20-30% had developed varies stages kidney stones.	Jinling Evening Daily, Dr. Feng's Blog
9/13/2008	Health Minister Gao Qiang held press conference, and denied any government awareness of the case before 9/8/2008	Health Minister Gao Qiang
9/12/2008	Evening: Health Ministry notified WHO, and launched Public Recall, 700 tons could not be traced	News Report
9/12/2008	Morning: 800 police stormed 41 dairy farms. 78 farmers were questioned and 19 were arrested for allegedly mixing melamine into milk	News Report
9/11/2008	A Gansu newspaper named Sanlu in connection with infant kidney failures	Nes Report
9/10/2008	Professor Sun Xizhao of Nanjing University wrote to newspaper questioned an Unnamed Milk Powder caused infant kidney failure. The same day Sanlu denied any knowledge of it	News Report, Sanlu website
9/9/2008	Health Ministry ordered recall	Health Ministry Gao Qiang
9/9/2008	Baidu refused to honor the 'protection status' agreement when requested by Sanlu	Baidu
9/8/2008	Prime Minister Helen Clark met with cabinet regarding the situation and ordered Fonterra to notify Beijing	Helen Clark
9/8/2008	Sanlu submit a written report to Hebei Province, Health Minister Gao Qiang claimed that this was the first time Sanlu notified government officials of any level	Health Minister Gao Qiang
9/5/2008	New Zealand Prime Minister was informed of the situation	Prime Minister Helen Clark
8/27/2008	Dr. Zhang Wen of Huazhong University of Science and Technology told news media that Sanlu infant formula had caused many infants kidney failures in the past year. This was the first time a medical doctor named Sanlu to the news media, although many had been discussing this privately	News Report
8/17/2008	National top food safety agency AQSIG visited Sanlu but didn't make any decision	News Report
8/14/2008	New Zealand Embassy in Beijing was informed of the crisis	Helen Clark
8/11/2008	A memo from Sanlu's PR Consulting Firm Beijing Lantaotonglue noted numerious negative reference of Sanlu with connection to infants kidney failures. The memo laid out three strategies in handling the crisis, including purchasing a 'protection status' from the largest Chinese language search engine Baidu at the price of RMB Yuan 300 million	FAX from Lantaotonglue
8/6/2008	Sanlu coordinates mass medical assistance for infant victims	Sanlu, News Report
8/5/2008	Sanlu's dairy product produced after 8/5/2008 are free of melamine	Tian Wenhua, Chairwoman of Sanlu
8/4/2008	Sanlu stopped 2,000 tons of powder milk from entering market, and secretly withdrew 8080 tons of powder milk contaminated with Melamine through the Health Ministry	Tian Wenhua, Chairwoman of Sanlu
8/3/2008	Sanlu alerted the situation to the City of Shijiangzhuang, Hebei Province and Health Ministry	Tian Wenhua, Chairwoman of Sanlu
8/2/2008	Fonterra learnt of the situation	Fonterra
8/1/2008	Melamine was detected and documented	Sanlu, Tian Wenhua, Sun Dongdong, Professor of Beijing University and expert of the Health Ministry
7/23/2008	Hunan TV Metropolitan Channel reported a sudden alarming rise in infant kidney stones cases. In one hospital received 16 infants with severe kidney stones. The TV program revealed all victims used the same brand of milk. Packages of canned and bagged powder milk was shown on the TV, but did not explicitly name Sanlu	Hunan TV
7/1/2008	Sanlu launched investigation into infants kidney failures after drinking Sanlu infant formula	Tian Wenhua
2/2/2008	A Zhejiang consumer contacted Sanlu, and a range of local authorities after Sanlu powder milk made his daughter difficulty to pee. Later, without knowing the extend and seriousness of the issue, the consumer accepted an exchange of 4 boxes of Sanlu powder milk. He posted his story on a popular Internet community Tianya. This is the first documented exposure of this scandal.	Internet Cache, Wu Yuanping (the consumer)
3/1/2008	Reports of mass infant kidney failure started arriving Sanlu, Sanlu asked government agency's help to test dairy products which all appeared to be acceptable	Sanlu
3/1/2008	Several Inquiries, including one made by a known kidney surgeon, was made to the top food safety agency AQSIQ. These complaints had been deleted from AQSIQ website, but still available from Google cache	Internet Cache and Dr. Feng Dongchuan's Blog
3/1/2008	Hospitals around the country noticed a sharpen increase of infant kidney failure cases, many alerted the manufacture as well as local safety agencies	Sanlu
1/8/2008	Sanlu infant formula received the National Award of Science and Technology Progress, and became the only dairy product ever to receive this top national science and technology award	News Report
9/2/2007	The Propaganda Arm of CCP, the CCTV hailed Sanlu the top quality dairy product in its weekly 'Quality of Made-in-China' Special Program	CCTV, YouTube
7/10/2007	The Director of China FDA (State Food and Drug Administration, SDA) Mr. Zheng Xiaoyu was executed for oversight of the pet food that poisoned American cats	public record
5/8/2007	In the aftermath of the US FDA findings, AQSIQ examined 399 samples of export food products and 800 domestic food products, and failed to find any trace of melamine. AQSIQ hail the result a testimony of excellent food quality in China.	AQSIQ
4/20/2007	AQSIQ ordered all food export must go through melamine tests	AQSIQ
3/30/2007	US FDA declared Melamine was detected in pet food imported from China. Hundreds of cats and little dogs became sick or dead after eating import pet food.	news Report
11/25/2005	New Zealand based Fonterra Acquired 43% of Sanlu, Fonterra has 3 representations on Sanlu's 7 persons board	Public Record, Fonterra
7/5/2005	900 packages of Sanlu yoghurt were confiscated by Tianjin authorities for post-dating production date	News Report
6/1/2004	Sanlu was named in a 'Big Head Baby' scandal of producing low cost powder milk with zero nutritional value and caused 13 babies' death. After an aggressive emergency campaign, Health Minister Gao Qiang arranged to have Sanlu removed from the blacklist.	News Report

In the News, How Bad Is It?

How bad is the Sanlu case? According to the Chinese government, more than 500 children were hospitalized and 1 died. However, these figures were an incomplete assembly of cases known before the government make the case public. It is not even "the tip of the iceberg".

After learned the news from TV, nervous parents flooded hospitals across the country. After all, Sanlu had been the No. 1 powder milk manufacture for 11 consecutive years. According to the Xinhua News, in the day of Sept 13, 2008 at one hospital where a reporter monitored, ultrasound scan revealed that out of 140 kids examined, 40 had already developed crystals or stones, several were hospitalized. All these kids were sent to the hospital by their nervous parents only because they had been drinking this brand of milk, but none of them had shown any visible symptoms yet.

From English News, New Zealand Fonterra, the co-owner of the Sanlu admitted that they had learned of the situation as early as August 2, 2008. Fonterra said they recommended to recall all contained products. However, Fonterra did not reveal this information to the public before it was reported by Chinese media on September 12, 2008.

The original report:

“三鹿奶粉专病门诊”爆棚

大部分孩子症状轻微
　 金陵晚报 2008-09-14 15:57:29

新华报业网讯 “我们没事了！”昨日，南京市儿童医院三鹿奶粉专病门诊内，听医生说宝宝没事时，七尺男儿朱先生抱着宝宝连蹦带跳。
　　
　　朱先生是前天晚上知道三鹿奶粉事件的，“吓得一个晚上都没睡着觉”，昨天一大早，朱先生全家出动抱着宝宝从安徽芜湖赶到南京来检查。
　　
　　和朱先生一样焦虑的家长不在少数，南京市儿童医院因此特别开设三鹿奶粉专病门诊，昨日一天，这个门诊接诊的孩子超过100个，让人庆幸的是，这其中 70%至80%的孩子都正常，还有20%左右的孩子B超检查显示肾脏里已经出现小的结晶甚至结石，这其中有几个比较严重，昨日直接收治入院。
　　
　　昨日下午3:30至5:30，记者在这个专病门诊，目睹了张爱华博士对可疑患儿筛查的整个过程。
　　
　　专病门诊设在单独的六楼，昨天整层楼候诊区被焦急等候的家长塞得满满的。
　　
　　刘女士和丈夫及宝宝的爷爷奶奶赶到时，已是下午接近四点的光景，刘女士心急火燎地说，宝宝11个月大，一直喝的是三鹿奶粉，四十几元一袋的那种，到现在估计喝了有七八十袋了。家住安徽巢湖乡下的刘女士早上才听说三鹿奶粉出事的事情，她吓了一大跳，回去和家里人一说，大家都觉得拖不得，一家人包了辆车就往南京赶。
　　
　　张爱华问过宝宝的初步症状后，便开了B超单子让宝宝去做检查，到下午五点多，宝宝的检查结果出来了，张爱华看过说，还好，宝宝没什么事，一家人这才放了心。
　　
　　昨日，在儿童医院三鹿奶粉专病门诊的对面，肖护士长中午都没吃饭，“江苏省内有从盐城、宜兴赶来的，外省有从安徽、江西、山东赶过来的”，肖护士长说，除了从外地赶过来的孩子，还有很多孩子虽然登记的地址是南京，但他们的原籍大部分也都是外地的，只是因为父母在宁打工而暂住在南京。
　　
　　灵儿才9个月零12天，是六合人，昨日做保安的爸爸请了假和妈妈一起带灵儿到儿童医院来检查，因为妈妈没奶，灵儿也是一出生就喝三鹿奶粉，灵儿喝的是金装的，一罐100多元。
　　张爱华告诉灵儿爸爸，宝宝的体内已经有小结晶了，妈妈这时候才想起，宝宝早上起来小便时，偶尔会有红颜色的颗粒样的东西。。
　　
　　不过，医生安慰灵儿的家人说，灵儿虽然已有些症状，但情况还不是太严重，回家吃点药再注意多喝水就可以了。
　　
　　小童童才6个月，是个小男生，来自于盐城，妈妈说，童童没什么不适，就是有时候小便里面有沉着的粉末。
　　
　　前天，知道三鹿奶粉的事情后，家里人就带小童童去当地的医院检查了，医生说有问题。于是，昨天一早，一家子就带着童童到南京来了。
　　
　　就诊的时候，妈妈给童童喝水，记者发现宝宝用的奶瓶上也印着“三鹿”字样，妈妈苦笑着说，是买奶粉的时候送的。
　　
　　很快，小童童的B超结果就出来了，张爱华告诉这家人，童童的结石已从肾脏掉到输尿管里，输尿管已经出现梗阻的情况，必须住院治疗，当场张爱华就为小童童开了住院单。
　　
　　张爱华说，昨日来就诊的孩子中，经他手收治入院的仅有6名，和之前20名因为急性肾衰收治入院不同，这些孩子的情况“都不是太严重”。
　　
　　大部分孩子症状轻微小添添15个月，三鹿奶粉吃了两个半月，这些天，添添小便有点黄，还有点断断续续，经常不一次性尿完，联系上奶粉事件，家人更是担心宝宝也得了肾结石，昨天检查的结果是，添添有些尿路感染，和结石无关。
　　
　　截至昨天下午5点，前往儿童医院就诊的孩子已超过100名，加上前天下午的数字，共有140多名吃三鹿奶粉的孩子前来检查。据悉，这其中有40名孩子被查出有小结晶或结石，绝大部分的孩子都正常。“完全可以放心回家”，张爱华说。 作者：陈艳萍

Sanlu, Baidu, and That Damned Olympic

An internal FAX surfaced today revealed more about the behind the curtain operations of the Sanlu (Triple Deer) powdered milk scandal.

The letter recommended three parallel strategies: 1) Silencing victims; 2) Buying out our the official search engine in China, Baidu; 3) citing national standard.

Company who pays RMB 5 million ($750k) in advertising enjoys a 'PR protection' status from Baidu. Baidu will delete any negative reference. The consulting company has managed to negotiated a deal that Sanlu only needs to pay RMB 3 million to qualify the status. Sanlu has paid RMB 1.8 million at the time of the letter (August 11, 2008), and the letter recommend Sanlu pay the rest ASAP to seal the deal.

The letter also revealed that adding melamine is also a common practice in China powder milk industry. The third strategy dictates Sanlu will threat to disclose this 'secret' to secure help from national producers association.

So what does this has anything to do with the Olympic? According to Xinhua News, as early as in March, the producer has been notified by hospitals across the nation of unusual number of infant kidney stones cases after using the Sanlu infant formula. As early as June, the top product quality agency in China, the general administraion of quality supervision, inspection and quarantine of the people's republic of china (AQSIQ), had already handled the case. Although the original web page was no longer accessible, a Internet cache showed the answering of an inquiry No: 20080630-1622-25262. Because of the damned Olympic, hundreds of thousands of Chinese infants had to keep drinking poisonous milk for another 3 months.

Actually, this was not the first crisis of the Sanlu powder milk. Four years ago, in the Anhui 'Big Head Babies' case, among 41 other low price powder milk brands, Sanlu powder milk was tested to be of zero nutritious value, made of all with chemicals and nothing from a cow. Through a successful 'PR campaign', Sanlu was removed from the list, and the AQSIQ endorsed the campaign.

Sanlu is the largest powder milk producer in China, and second largest yoghurt producer and third largest liquid milk producer. In January 2008, Sunlu infant formula received the highest possible national technology award, the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2nd tier) for the successful mixing of melamine into diary products without hurting taste and safety. This is the only National Science and Technology Award ever been awarded to a diary related research in 20 years since the top national award was established.

Upon the public outcry, the company stopped selling of 10,386 tons of milk in its factory and warehouses, and recalled 700 tons that were already on the market. It showed 5-6% of melamine is the test samples. It is estimated that as many as 700 tons melamine had been added to its power milk products in the six months between January and June of 2008.

Sanlu was acquired by the New Zealand based Fonterra in December 2005. Fonterra acknowledge the issue, but stressed that the milk was only in markets in mainland China and the Taiwan area.

The following is a complaint filed by a consumer whose daughter was an victim of the Sanlu milk. Many baby died after drinking the Sanlu milk mixed with melamine. A search of the Internet finds hundreds of such complaints, but all the communism government had been doing was to silence the consumer, in part in name of the damned Olympic!

三鹿集团这种所谓的名牌奶粉能吃吗？！
发布时间：2008年6月2日
投诉主题：在线投诉:三鹿集团这种所谓的名牌奶粉能吃吗？！
投诉地址：泰顺县 [/]
投诉企业：河北石家庄三鹿集团股份有限公司
投诉原因：的名牌奶粉能吃吗？！
详细内容：
　　经历了这一事件，就像经历了漫漫长夜；又像做了一个噩梦。同时，也说明我们的食品安全问题任重而道远，想揭露事件的真相是很困难的，除非出现像安徽阜阳那种大事件，而所能揭露真相的比例占总数也是极少的。

　　事情是这样的。我全家（包括岳父岳母）都有吃奶粉的习惯。自2007年11月份开始，我在县城某超市陆续购得一批“三鹿”牌子的奶粉。经食用，首先发现生产日期及批号为2007/12/19 D 01 08的儿童高钙配方奶粉有如下现象：女儿晚睡前食用，次日晨起第一注小便排出，粘稠、呈淡黄色米汤状，还有细小颗粒沉淀，并偶有腹泻；停用即清，再食用又浊。再闻冲开之后的奶粉气味，似香不香；入口感觉淡涩、且有粉渣感。

　　开始，我以为买到假货了。出于公民义务，我将情况电话告知厂家服务热线。厂家叫我寄2包原封奶粉，送实验室检验。

　　我于2008年2 月25日，向河北石家庄三鹿集团股份有限公司寄出儿童高钙配方奶粉（生产日期及批号：2007/12/19 D 01 08）、中老年高钙配方奶粉（生产日期及批号：2007/12/29 D 02 37）各一包。

　　过了多天，我致电厂家，询问是否收到寄检奶粉？有无问题？请把检验结果传真给我。厂家承认收到，并证实是他们生产的产品，但没有跟我说有无质量问题，只是说地区代理商会跟我联系。

　　又过了几天，地区代理商代表厂家果然和我联系，叫我把没吃完的退还或换货；还说次日来人回收或换货。我不同意。我首先要的是检验结果。如果没问题，孩子吃了为何有上述情形？如果有问题，是什么问题？为什么不让我知道结果？如果不能让我知道结果，你为什么要叫我寄检？我又何必寄检？我孩子吃了，出现一些反常现象，可以退还或换货，那其它人的孩子呢？

　　自称是厂家代表的人给我的答复是：《检验报告单》涉及商业秘密，不能给我，但是可以给我看（到目前为止我还没有看到）。还说他们的儿童奶粉只适合３－７岁儿童，我孩子超过７岁。但包装袋上却明明标着：适合３岁以上少年儿童食用。后来提出：吃到肚子里的就说不清楚了；剩余１５包，１１包退一换一，开掉的４包退一换二。这是什么逻辑？他这样说有道理吗？连自己的产品都不熟悉的人，他能是厂家代表吗？我还能跟他谈吗？

　　我只好向消协投诉。消协于3月27日下午联系了卖家（超市），买卖双方在县工商局直属工商所所四楼由消协工作人员主持调解。卖方确认是他们所销售商品，说厂家不出具检验结果他们也觉得莫名其妙，最多只能按原价回收我们所食剩余的奶粉。我不同意。觉得此举意义不大，厂家既然叫我寄检了，我也寄检了，我一定要先知道奶粉有无质量问题！谈话间，他们还透露：他们仓库里还有大批这样的奶粉；泰顺县最大的连锁幼儿园——育才幼儿园也用这种奶粉。听到这些，我更想知道这批奶粉有无质量问题了，而想知道有无质量问题？唯一的办法就是由公正的第三方（即工商部门）通过合法的程序抽样送检。但检验费用得由我先垫付，说全检要上万，等于我要花几十倍的钱去证实它。我犹豫了，说回去好好想想。双方没有谈拢，调解没有成功。

　　这到底是怎么回事？我又找厂家。想通过厂家解决问题。我给厂家发了电子邮件，
内容如下:

　　“前段时间，我把奶粉寄你处检验的事。经与地区代理商和零售商多次协商，无果。现直接向你提出我的处理意见。

　　一、要求寄我检验报告单。如果说涉及商业秘密，寄我检验结果，并加盖公章也可。

　　二、如合格。要求对所剩余的我认为有问题的奶粉进行退换，毕竟这一批次的产品在食用后出现了一些不正常现象。

　　三、如果出于某种不可告人的原因，不能办到。我们即默认它为不合格。并按《食品卫生法》的相关规定处理。

　　四、无论那种情况，如换货，为确保所换奶粉质量。我要求你部直接与我接洽，或由我指定商店退换。

　　五、最后，双方签定调解协议，并通知消协。

　　上述五点妥否？请商榷。并尽快予以回复。”

　　但是厂家一直不做答复。后经思考，我觉得把奶粉寄送生产产家、让他们自己说有无问题，这一做法不妥。真理始于怀疑，而终于信仰。我就是把房子卖掉一套，也要查明事情的原委、破解心中的疑惑。我于３月３１日正式向县工商局直属工商所提出申请：为了天真的孩童，为了风烛残年的老者，为了更多的消费者，应该对这一批次有争议奶粉进行取样、并送权威部门检验。无论结果如何，对大家都是一件好事。

　　县工商局直属工商所的同志，在接到我的申请，并请示上级领导后，组织人员来到超市。结果发现慢了一步：前两天货架上，满满当当的上述批次的奶粉（包括其它老包装的），一包也没了，全部变成了新包装的奶粉，仓库里也没有，全部不知所终！问超市的管理人员，说是不清楚。这次行动失败的原因主要是厂家确认是其生产，工商方面有些迟疑，毕竟是名牌啊，所以在之前增加了调解程序；也是这个原因，导致去超市取不到样。

　　现在我手里的那堆奶粉就成孤证了。我看到那堆奶粉心里就郁闷：吃又不敢吃，扔掉又可惜、也不敢，换吧？又怕他们把类似原来那种质量的换给我。唉，身为人父、为人子的我该咋办呢？现在我只有寻求媒体的帮助了。

On May 20, 2008, the same person post a message on the popular community site Tianya of the same story. On June 6, 2008, he asked the discussion board mater to delete his post:

作者：789oo88oo88 提交日期：2008-6-6 9:58:00
　　
　　斑竹你好。
　　我是789oo88oo88用户。
　　在5月20日下午19点左右，在没有充分了解事情真相的状况下,我在天涯杂谈上发表了《[汶川地震]这样的奶粉能拿来救灾吗？！》一文。后来才发现原来自己所买的是假冒伪劣产品,但是由于当时本人过于激动，言论颇有不当.并借地震之事大肆宣扬,想让更多的网友知道此事.在此深表道歉,为了防止误导更多的人,并无心对生产厂商造成名誉损坏。因此，请斑竹代为删除此贴。防止更坏的影响及传播。
　　　　谢谢。
　　　　帖子链接:
　　　　http://cache.tianya.cn/publicforum/content/free/1/1259614.shtml

When pressed by peer netizens after the scandal broke out, he posted again on Sept 12, 2008:

作者：789oo88oo88　回复日期：2008-9-12　20:19:13　

　　　　"在5月20日下午19点左右，在没有充分了解事情真相的状况下,我在天涯杂谈上发表了《[汶川地震]这样的奶粉能拿来救灾吗？！》一文。后来才发现原来自己所买的是假冒伪劣产品,但是由于当时本人过于激动，言论颇有不当.并借地震之事大肆宣扬,想让更多的网友知道此事.在此深表道歉,为了防止误导更多的人,并无心对生产厂商造成名誉损坏。因此，请斑竹代为删除此贴。防止更坏的影响及传播。"
　　
　　　　这个帖子不是我写的。事情是这样的：我的帖子因为被人回了帖，所以就没有权限删除了。厂家又崔得紧，我只得告诉他们密码，他们自己写的。

Nutritious Baby Milk

"So many 'N's in this diagram!" That is right, chemical melamine (also known as tripolycyanamide) has a lot of Nitrogen, actually 66% in its mass. That's why it is widely used in pet food produced in China, which killed quite several US cats and dogs last year. Melamine itself does not supply any nutrition, because it is insoluble and can not be used by animals. However, since food monitoring agencies use the percentage of Nitrogen contained in pet food to measure its nutrition level, Melamine is a popular added-on in the Chinese food industry. The ordeal ended with the execution of China's top food safety official Mr. Zheng Xiaoyu. Use of melamine is subsequently banned in the process of making pet food. Soon, innovative manufactures found new applications, in infant formula milk. With the 66% Nitrogen melamine, the baby milk tastes extremely nutritious. The only problem, though, is that it is insoluble.

It was reported today that unknown, but large number of infants were hospitalized for kidney stones. Because of the food structure of an infant, it's very rare to find kidney stones developed in this stage of life. Upon further study, all infants suffered from the disease had taken formula milk produced by a Hebei company, the Sanlu (Triple Deer) Diary Group in Shijiazhuang. The company recalled 700 tons of powdered milk that contains 5-6% of Melamine. Sanlu is one of the largest diary suppliers in the nation, with annual sells of $18 Billion. Sanlu is also the supplier of the China's ambitious space program.

Jews Love Chinese So Much

Jews love China so much as they love dog shits, as the only Israeli Olympic medalist described to a Jewish newspaper Yediot Ahronot Daily during an interview on Friday Sept 5, 2008 after returning from Beijing.

Israeli windsurfing bronze medalist Shahar Zubari told the Jewish newspaper that Chinese are "dog shits". He said "After a month and a half I couldn't look at Chinese people any more," and that "their traditions are bizarre and even their speech is weird," he said, adding, "I also don't like their food."

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Zubari to congratulate his courage, and said his comment 'brings tears of joy to Israel."

The Chinese embassy in Tel Aviv holds an reception to honor the Israeli Olympic Team as planned. They had no comment on the incident, when approached by reporters. The ambassador Zhao Jun, however, assured concerned Chinese readers that he had received a letter from the Israeli Sport and Culture Minister Galeb Majadle, saying that the Minister enjoyed his stay in Beijing during the Olympic Games.

Shahar Subari is born a Jew, and a member of the Israeli Army (IDF). His Olympic trip is sponsored by the IDF. Yediot Ahronot Daily enjoys a legal monopoly status as the dominant Hebrew newspaper in Israel with more than 50% market share.

Mainland Chinese Sex-ratio Map

Darker bloody color represents higher boy-to-girl ratios. As shown in the graph, economic developed regions such as Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai are seen with more 'reasonable' ratio, and so are ethnics areas where people could legally have more than 1 kid. In comparison, poverty provinces such as Henan Province and sweat factory hosts such as Shenzhen of Guangdong Province are saturated with baby girls' blood.

The study is to be appeared in Nature.

Microsoft China Admitted Making Strike, Regrettably

Microsoft China admitted the behind curtain role in a legal action against software piracy. The Microsoft China chief director of intellectual protection Wu Haitao told media that Microsoft initialized the action which resulted an influential piracy software site, the Tomato Gardens, taken down by Chinese government, its operator arrested. However, Wu assured the media that Microsoft would not take action against individual personal users. Vice general manager of the Microsoft Greater China, Liu Fengming said Microsoft China foresaw a potential backfire from individual users, but didn't expected it to be as bad. Microsoft did not make the move, but rather hired an IP firm which allied several third party software vendor to fire the lawsuit. Nevertheless, the management at Microsoft China found sitting on a burning cushion with all the fingers pointed to Microsoft.

According to a survey conducted by a Chinese portal site, among 100,000 participated, only 5% back Microsoft's anti-piracy effort, while over 80% support the piracy site operator. Liu told the media that Microsoft had long been adopting a 'Three E' doctrine, that is 'Eduction, Engineering, and Enforcement' in China. Liu said Microsoft believe in a 'moderate' approach in intellectual protection. The main controversy surrounding this particular case is the site is individual oriented. So far, Microsoft's anti-piracy actions in China had been mostly targeting government and business clients.

Although government and business clients in China are buying more and more copies of Windows and Office Suites from the company, with China's average income level, it is obvious that the only possible way most individual person would be able to afford a computer at home would be running on a low cost operating system. So far, Microsoft has been maintaining a commending lead in the software market in China by allowing piracy as long as it is for personal use. If the ordinary users sense a tightening control of copy-right enforcement, they may switch to alternative low cost solutions, such as Linux, which Microsoft will be hate to see. Once individual users get used to using Linux at home, they may start trying out Linux at work, and that will be the end of game for the software giant.