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| Milk scandal resurfaces in China | Milk scandal resurfaces in China |
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| Melamine-tainted milk products have been found on sale in China, more than a year after thousands of children became ill in a huge safety scandal. | Melamine-tainted milk products have been found on sale in China, more than a year after thousands of children became ill in a huge safety scandal. |
| Products made by three different firms were found to contain melamine and have now been removed from supermarkets in Guizhou province, officials say. | Products made by three different firms were found to contain melamine and have now been removed from supermarkets in Guizhou province, officials say. |
| Melamine is an industrial chemical that can be added to watered-down milk to increase its protein content. | Melamine is an industrial chemical that can be added to watered-down milk to increase its protein content. |
| Six children died and some 300,000 became ill from tainted milk in 2008. | Six children died and some 300,000 became ill from tainted milk in 2008. |
| If ingested in sufficient quantities, melamine can cause kidney failure and kidney stones. | If ingested in sufficient quantities, melamine can cause kidney failure and kidney stones. |
| The companies involved in the latest recall blamed the contamination on milk powder they had bought as a raw material to add to their products, state media reported. | |
| An official involved in the 2008 investigation told China Daily the powder may been part of that recalled batch which was still circulating on the market. | |
| "There were still some leftovers in the dealers' hands that nobody cared about," said Wang Dingmian, former chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Dairy Association. | |
| Mr Wang said the government's regulation of milk products was too weak and that companies should be required to test every batch they used. | |
| China says 21 people have been convicted over the 2008 scandal, including milk producers, traders and executives of the Sanlu milk company. | |
| In November 2009, two people were executed for making and selling hundreds of tonnes of melamine-tainted milk products. |