China arrests 96 in connection with 2008 melamine-tainted milk scandal
Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 01:35PM 
"Caged" by Dave Nakayama, dnak@flickr.com
China, all too often in the news for toxic food and other products, is certainly taking some of these case seriously. Two people have already been excecuted in connection with the China's tainted milk, two others sentenced to life in prison.
This shocking scandal is particularly heinous because the manufacturers were using melamine, an industrial chemical high in nitrogen, to trick food regulators into thinking that the watered down milk, or milk products, were actually high in protein. Nitrogen is measured as a proxy for protein, which is difficult to quantify.
Read the full article by Sui-Lee Wee and Sabrina Mao at Reuters.com
Also:
A BBC report on "Chinese Fake Milk" from 2004
The New York Times on the ubiquity of melamine in our industrial and food system
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