China Tainted Milk Scandal Trial

  • AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lixin
  • AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lixin
  • AP Photo/Xinhua, Ding Lixin
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  • Imaginechina via AP Images
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  • Dec. 31, 2008: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Tian Wenhua, Sanlu Group Co.'s former board chairwoman and general manager, is taken by bailiffs into a court to stand trial in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province. The former dairy boss who could face the death penalty in China's tainted milk scandal testified Wednesday that she began investigating product quality issues in May but did not notify authorities until August, Xinhua said.
  • Dec. 31, 2008: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, the four indictees, from left, Tian Wenhua, Wang Yuliang, Hang Zhiqi and Wu Jusheng (not shown) stand trial in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei Province. All four executives were accused by prosecutors of producing and selling fake or substandard products, according to Xinhua news agency. They could face the death penalty if convicted.
  • Dec. 30, 2008: In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Geng Jinping, left front, manager of a milk production base and Geng Jinzhu, right front, a driver at the base, stand trial at the Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, capital of north China's Hebei Province. The two suspects, brothers Geng Jinping and Geng Jinzhu, went on trial on Tuesday on the toxic food charge, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The two, arrested in September soon after the scandal broke, are accused of adding 957 pounds of melamine-based additive to 1,000 tons of raw milk that they then sold to major diaries, including Sanlu, CCTV said.
  • Dec. 31, 2008: A parent of a kidney stone baby holding diagnosis reports of his daugther stands outside the Shijiazhuang Intermediate Peoples Court, where four officials from Sanlu Group are on trial. Four executives working for the Sanlu Group, the major dairy at the heart of a contaminated milk scandal in China that sickened nearly 300,000 infants, went on trial Wednesday (Dec. 31, 2008).
  • September 17, 2008: A Chinese parent holds her baby who was fed with Sanlu milk powder and a bag of Sanlu milk powder, waiting for examinations at a hospital in Zhengzhou, central Chinas Henan province.
  • September 26, 2008: Chinese parents holding their babies who were fed with Sanlu milk powder wait for examination at a hospital in Fuyang, east Chinas Anhui province.
  • November 2008: Boxes of tainted Sanlu milk are seen collected for destruction in Sheqi county, Nanyang city, central Chinas Henan province. Sanlu Group Co., the Chinese dairy company closed in September after it sold contaminated infant formula, has been declared bankrupt by a court. Six Chinese infants died and more than 54,000 were hospitalized after 22 companies including Sanlu sold formula made from milk contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine.

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