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တရုတ္နိုင္ငံက SANLU ကုမၸဏီထုတ္ ကေလးႏို႔မႈန္႔ေတြမွာ မယ္လမင္းဓါတုဓါတ္ပစၥည္းေတြ ပါေနလို႔ ေသာက္သံုးမိတဲ့ ကေလးငယ္ေတြဟာ ေက်ာက္ကပ္မွာေက်ာက္တည္တဲ့ေရာဂါေတြ ခံစား ေနၾကရပါတယ္။ တရုတ္အစုိးရ စစ္ေဆးေတြ႔ရွိခ်က္အရဆုိရင္ ဒီ ေရာဂါရ ၿပီး အသက္အႏၱရယ္ထိခုိက္မႈရွိေစတဲ႔ SANLU ကုမၸဏီထုတ္ ကေလးႏို႔မႈန္႔ေတြကုိ ႏုိင္ငံေပါင္း ၅ ႏုိင္ငံ (Bangladesh, Myanmar, Yemen, Chad and Burundi) သုိ႔ တင္ပုိ႔ေရာင္ခ်ခဲ႔ေၾကာင္း၊ အတည္ၿပဳေၿပာၾကားသြားပါတယ္။ အခုအခါမွာ ဒီ အဆိတ္သင္႔ေစတဲ႔ ႏို႔မႈန္႔ေၾကာင့္ ႏို႔စို႔အရြယ္ ကေလးငယ္ ၃ဦး ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရၿပီး ၿဖစ္ေၾကာင္း တရုတ္အစုိးရက ေက်ညာသြားပါၿပီ။
တရုတ္ကေလးငယ္ ၆၂၀၀ ေက်ာ္ဟာယခုအခါေ၀ဒနာခံစားေနၾကရၿပီး၊ ေနာက္ထပ္ ကေလးမိဘေတြ အေနနဲ႔ သူတို႔ကေလးငယ္ေတြကို ေဆး႐ံု ထပ္ပို႔ လာမယ့္ အေရအတြက္ဟာလည္း မ်ားလာႏုိင္တယ္ လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
တရုတ္အစုိးရ ရဲ႕ က်န္းမာေရးဦးစီဌာနကေတာ႔ ဒီကေလးႏို႔မႈန္႔ေၾကာင္႔ ေရာဂါခံစားေနရတဲ႔ ကေလးငယ္ေတြကုိ အခမဲ႔ေဆး၀ါးကုသေပးမယ္လုိ႔ ဂတိၿပဳေၿပာ ၾကားသြားပါတယ္။
ၿမန္မာမိဘမ်ား အေနနဲ႔ ဒီတရုတ္နိုင္ငံက SANLU ကုမၸဏီထုတ္ ကေလးႏို႔မႈန္႔ေတြမွာ မ၀ယ္ၾကဖုိ႔ အထူး သတိၿပဳၾကေစလုိပါတယ္။ ၿမန္မာကေလးငယ္မ်ား၏က်န္းမာေရးအတြက္ ကေလးရွိ ၿမန္မာမိဘမ်ားအား အသိပညာေပးဖုိ႔ႏွင္႔ သတင္းေ၀မွ်ေပးေစလုိပါတယ္။ ၿမန္မာကေလးေတြ က်န္မာေရးေဘး အႏၱရယ္ အတိဒုကၡမေရာက္ေစဖုိ႔ အတြက္ တက္ႏုိင္သေလာက္ အၿမန္ဆုံး အေရးေပၚ က်န္းမာေရး လွဴံ႕ေဆာ္မႈေတြ ၿပဳလုပ္ေပးၾကပါ။
China: Third baby dies from tainted formula
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- The scope of China's contaminated baby formula case grew Wednesday as officials reported the death of a third infant and a spike in those made ill by it.
At the same time, China's largest producer of milk, Mengniu Dairy Group, announced the recall of three batches of formula made in January. Testing showed they were contaminated.
More than 6,200 babies have been sickened by the tainted milk powder, said Li Changjiang, China's director of quarantine and inspection, up from about 1,200 on Tuesday.
More than 1,300 infants are hospitalized. The illnesses include malnutrition, kidney stones and acute renal failure.
Originally Chinese officials said all of the tainted formula had remained in China, other than a small amount that was exported to Taiwan. But Li said Wednesday that the powder has also been shipped to five other nations, including Bangladesh, Myanmar, Yemen, Chad and Burundi.
Recalls of the products by the Yashili and Suokang companies have been made, according to Li.
Of China's 175 baby milk powder production companies, 66 have already stopped production, Li said. Investigators are testing samples at the rest.
Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder were arrested by Chinese investigators Monday and could face death if convicted, according to China Daily, the state-run newspaper.
The raw milk had been watered down and a chemical added to fool quality checks, the newspaper said.
The scandal prompted China agricultural officials to start a nationwide inspection of its dairy industry.
While 19 people were detained for questioning, the only ones arrested so far are the brothers who supplied about three tons of milk each day to the Sanlu Group, which manufactured the baby formula, the paper said.
Investigators said the brothers confessed to watering down the raw milk and mixing in tripolycyanamide, also known as melamine. They said they did it to recover losses suffered when the factory rejected earlier milk shipments, the paper reported.
The brothers are charged with producing and selling toxic and hazardous food, which carries a possible death penalty, the paper said.
Health experts say ingesting melamine can lead to kidney stones, urinary tract ulcers, and eye and skin irritation.
The chemical is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.
Sanlu Group has recalled more than 8,200 tons of the tainted formula following reports of sickened babies, Xinhua said.
Sanlu, one of China's leading dairy producers, has also sealed off more than 2,100 tons of contaminated product, and another 700 tons still need to be recalled, the news agency said.
Chinese investigators have found melamine in nearly 70 milk products from more than 20 companies, Li said Wednesday. Products made by Sanlu had the highest concentration of the chemical.
It is not the first time Sanlu has been connected to a scandal involving tainted milk powder, according to China Daily.
In 2004, at least 13 infants in the eastern Anhui province died of malnutrition after drinking milk powder that had little to no nutrition. The illegally manufactured milk was falsely labeled with the Sanlu brand, according to the paper.
This episode marks the latest in a string of tainted products produced in China.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled more than 150 brands of cat and dog food last year after finding that some pets became ill or died after eating food tainted with melamine, the same chemical found in the powdered milk.
Two Chinese businesses, a U.S. company and top executives of each were indicted by a federal grand jury in February in connection with tainted pet food, which resulted in deaths and serious illnesses in up to thousands of U.S. pets, federal prosecutors said.
In October 2007, regulators and retailers in the United States recalled at least 69,000 Chinese-made toys over concerns of excessive amounts of lead paint, which can cause hazardous lead poisoning.
In November, shipments of the popular toy Aqua Dots were found to have been contaminated with a toxic chemical that turned into a powerful "date rape" drug if swallowed, causing some children who ate the craft toys to vomit and lose consciousness.
And in February, a Maryland candy distributor pulled Pokemon-brand Valentine lollipops from store shelves after bits of metal were found in the sealed treats, authorities said.
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