BEIJING - China has begun an emergency nationwide inspection of dairy products following reports that tainted foodstuffs the government had ordered destroyed in 2008 were still being sold, according to a report Tuesday in China Daily, an official English-language newspaper. The suspect dairy products contain melamine, an industrial chemical added to the products to give them the appearance of having greater nutritional value. The chemical, typically used to make plastics and fertilizer, can...
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