Hebei Provencial Chief: we knew about the tainted milk more than a month ago
But of course, we wouldn't want to ruin the Olympic celebrations. So better keep it under wraps and hope not too many children die.
Update: Maddog notes in comments, quoting another article:
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At least since June, the harmful nature of the powdered milk from the company Sanlu had been denounced to the competent general administration for the supervision of quality, inspection, and quarantines[*]. In July, a local TV station in Hunan talked about it, alarmed over the elevated number of children hospitalized with kidney stones. But everything was silenced to avoid scandals ahead of the Olympics, and the media were prohibited from even speaking about it.
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A-gu, according to this article, they have known about the situation for much longer than that:
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At least since June, the harmful nature of the powdered milk from the company Sanlu had been denounced to the competent general administration for the supervision of quality, inspection, and quarantines[*]. In July, a local TV station in Hunan talked about it, alarmed over the elevated number of children hospitalized with kidney stones. But everything was silenced to avoid scandals ahead of the Olympics, and the media were prohibited from even speaking about it.
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* That seems to be a bad translation of the name of a government agency.
Y'see? Beijing's hosting of the Olympics has proven that the Chinese government is only 99.9% as evil as it was before!
Tim Maddog
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