Melamine Scandal

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The 2010 update indicated that 227 tons of newly discovered melamine-contaminated milk powder have been confiscated again. In 2008, a previous nationwide crackdown of 124 tons of contaminated from a dairy farm in Northwest China's Qinghai province and 103 tons by other manufacturers in Hebei, Shanxi, Heilongjiang provinces and Tianjin. In late June 2010, the latest melamine scandal was first discovered in Northwest China's Gansu province. Since then officials have since traced its source to the Dongyuan Dairy Factory, Minhe County, in neighboring Qinghai province. Officials have arrested six suspects and detained another 41 for allegedly participating in the production and distribution of melamine-tainted milk powder. In March 2010, a Shanghai

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