It seems like the melamine issue have toned down a bit already, but a recent door-to-door survey conducted in Beijing from September 20th to October 24th showed that one-fourth of Beijing babies have been fed my the tainted milk. That’s more than 75,500 babies!
It seems the melamine tsunami has also hit Hong Kong. On 25th of October, the Hong Kong health officials revealed that excess amount of melamine was found in eggs supplied by a mainland manufacturer and not the check has been extended to meat. It is suspected it was caused by a problem with the food they feed the chicken.
Also, not only babies are suffering from the aftermath of melamine, even a fur farm in China that breeds racoon dogs for their fur has been impacted. 1,500 racoon dogs have died after kidney failure after eating contaminated food with melamine. Autopsy has shown that a quarter of the kidney stone was made out of melamine.
It seems that the problem has already went WAY more than just junk food. Even basic food, eggs and meat, food we eat normally everyday is contaminated. How scary is that. Even businesses that is remotely related to the food industry is being affected by this. To be honest, the scope of this has way exceeded my expectation. As much as I don’t want to admit, I have to agree with Siaolan’s comment to some extent. Countries such as the U.S. also get bashed. However, I still stand by my point of view that the media have been over magnifying the whole situation, and trying to manipulate the audience’s point of view of China by implying biased idea.
I sincerely hope that the Chinese and Hong Kong government can work together and tighter to combat this situation because it is a very sad fact that one should worry whether it’s safe when they’re eating their breakfast or having a sandwich, especially in a city as developed as ours.
2 comments:
I respect your point of view, but I don't quite agree with it. China has a spotty record for their safety inspection. This is not the first time that products from China is found with dangerous substance in them and this is most certainly not the first time that pet food from China has killed the pets or animals that ate it. The last time pet food products killed the pets that ate it, just happened last year. I believe that China should have learned it's lesson by now.
I believe that the China should treat what the media doing as a wake up call for better regulations and safety inspections. If the products become safer, then the media could no longer exploit this piece of news and would turn their attention to other things.
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