(CN) Milk inspectors beaten over tough checks

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Agence France-Presse in Beijing

5:00pm, Nov 14, 2008

 

 

Two milk inspectors for a major mainland dairy firm were severely beaten in

an attack blamed on suppliers angry at tough new safety checks following a

tainted milk scandal, state media said on Friday.

 

The two men were working in the northern city of Tangshan as inspectors for

Mengniu, one of the mainland's largest dairy companies, which has

implemented strict new safety inspections, the China Youth Daily reported.

 

The attack occurred November 5 after inspector Li Zhongping had confronted

an outside dairy supplier over a batch of milk he was selling that appeared

not to confirm with new standards, it said.

 

" According to an initial analysis, this incident was triggered by [Li's]

decision that this truck's milk was not in compliance, " it quoted an unnamed

Mengniu official as saying.

 

Mr Li and another inspector, Zhang Liwei, were set on by a group of about

five club-wielding men as they left work later that day.

 

Mr Li was badly beaten, suffering numerous injuries over his body, including

fractured vertebra, and was in a coma for " a long time " , the paper said,

without specifying Mr Li's current condition.

 

Neither victim could identify the milk supplier nor the attackers as both

inspectors had only recently been rotated to Tangshan. Police were

investigating, the paper said.

 

Beijing has ordered tightened safety inspections in the dairy industry

nationwide after it emerged in September that milk supplies had been tainted

with the industrial chemical melamine.

 

The tainted products have been blamed for killing at least four infants in

the mainland and sickening more than 50,000 others in one of the worst of a

string of safety scandals involving mainland-made products in recent years.

 

Middlemen who collect milk from dairy farms and sell it to large firms have

been blamed for adding the melamine to try to make the milk appear to

contain more protein than it actually did.

 

The incident sparked a massive recall of dairy products in the mainland as

well as bans, recalls, or safety warnings in several export markets.

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If milk inspectors can get beaten up in China like this, can we imagine what

could happen to an " inspector of animal cruelty " , if there is one!!

 

 

 

 

 

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Agence France-Presse in Beijing

5:00pm, Nov 14, 2008

 

 

Two milk inspectors for a major mainland dairy firm were severely beaten in

an attack blamed on suppliers angry at tough new safety checks following a

tainted milk scandal, state media said on Friday.

 

The two men were working in the northern city of Tangshan as inspectors for

Mengniu, one of the mainland's largest dairy companies, which has

implemented strict new safety inspections, the China Youth Daily reported.

 

The attack occurred November 5 after inspector Li Zhongping had confronted

an outside dairy supplier over a batch of milk he was selling that appeared

not to confirm with new standards, it said.

 

" According to an initial analysis, this incident was triggered by [Li's]

decision that this truck's milk was not in compliance, " it quoted an unnamed

Mengniu official as saying.

 

Mr Li and another inspector, Zhang Liwei, were set on by a group of about

five club-wielding men as they left work later that day.

 

Mr Li was badly beaten, suffering numerous injuries over his body, including

fractured vertebra, and was in a coma for " a long time " , the paper said,

without specifying Mr Li's current condition.

 

Neither victim could identify the milk supplier nor the attackers as both

inspectors had only recently been rotated to Tangshan. Police were

investigating, the paper said.

 

Beijing has ordered tightened safety inspections in the dairy industry

nationwide after it emerged in September that milk supplies had been tainted

with the industrial chemical melamine.

 

The tainted products have been blamed for killing at least four infants in

the mainland and sickening more than 50,000 others in one of the worst of a

string of safety scandals involving mainland-made products in recent years.

 

Middlemen who collect milk from dairy farms and sell it to large firms have

been blamed for adding the melamine to try to make the milk appear to

contain more protein than it actually did.

 

The incident sparked a massive recall of dairy products in the mainland as

well as bans, recalls, or safety warnings in several export markets.