China detains factory owner in melamine scandal

[Coventina]

Source: Associated Press

BEIJING (AP) — Authorities in a Chinese city have detained the owner of a feed processing factory suspected of selling chicken feed tainted with an industrial chemical that was later found in eggs, state media reported.

The official Xinhua News Agency said late Tuesday that authorities in the northeastern city of Shenyang found that the factory mixed an ingredient tainted with melamine into feed sold to the country's leading egg producer, Dalian Hanwei Enterprise Group.

A brand of Hanwei's eggs were found earlier this month by Hong Kong food safety regulators to contain excessive levels of melamine, prompting some retailers to pull the eggs from stores in China.

Xinhua said the owner of the Mingxing Feed Processing Factory, Gao Xingtao, was detained and the remaining tainted animal feed made by the factory was destroyed.



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I'd say that guy's days are numbered.

The Chinese gov't does NOT like being embarrassed....

[MikeNearMcChord]

1. The "owner" is probably some poor scmuck

picked out and made an "owner". The place was probably owned by some high official. :tinfoilhat:

[Coventina]

2. Good point....

[Swede]

3. The owner/organ donor won't get much of a chance to defend himself.

nt

[whistle]

4. Gao Xingtao is said to be the owner of this Mingxing Feed Processing Factory

...knowingly formulated the feed with melamine thus deliberately adulterating the food supply of China. This guy sounds like Dr. No #1 in the international crime syndicate of Specter.

I don't mean to make light of this very serious matter, but this whole melamine situation which first surfaced several years ago is way too bazaar to be just a matter of increasing profits. There must be some kind of political power struggle going on.