Dairy supply for Olympics safe due to 'special management', official says
17/9/2008 17:13
The dairy supply for the Beijing Olympic Games and Paralympic Games were
untainted by melamine because of "special management measures", China's top
quality control official said in Beijing today.
"All the food supply,
including dairy, for the Olympics and Paralympics were safe," Li Changjiang,
head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine (AQSIQ) told a press conference.
"We took special quality
management measures aimed at food supply for the Games," said Li.
He noted
that all the food supply, including dairy products, were under scrutiny during
the whole process, from production, transportation, to kitchens during the
Olympics.
"We sent out inspectors to station at all food suppliers two months
before the Games. They conducted strict and effective supervision over all the
stages of the production," Li stated.
"After the baby formula were found
being tainted by melamine, we conducted immediate testing of the dairy supply
for the Olympics and no melamine were found."
Li said inspectors have found
melamine in 69 batches of infant formula made by 22 dairy companies. He said the
quality-control agencies have tested samples of 491 batches of infant formula at
109 firms.
China has 175 infant milk powder producers, but 66 have already
stopped production of infant formula before the incident, he said.
Health
Minister Chen Zhu said 6,244 infants have been sickened after being fed the
tainted baby formula by 8 am today, and among them 158 have suffered from acute
kidney failure.
Xinhua
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