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- Paul French, China Editor, 8 January 2009
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China's milk scandal: a bad response is followed by something more sensible
Attempts to try and repair consumer confidence in China over milk are under way
At the New Year dairy companies tried two strategies to get back in the good books of the naturally concerned and rather angry Chinese consumers, one daft and one more sensible.
First, the daft one: A number of Chinese dairy companies involved in the tainted milk scandal apologised in a New Year text message sent to millions of mobile phone subscribers across China.
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Comments:
China's milk scandal - Graham Sinclair, 27 Jan 2009
But the third and most controversial internationally has to be the strong legal response, unfortunately only targeted at one of the 22 companies involved. Fronterra is also under-mentioned in the fallout, seehttp://sri-extra.blogspot.com/2009/01/blood-tainted-milk-in-china-and-country.html
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