A dairy products distributor in China has been shut down for selling milk powder tainted with melamine, a compound used in fertilizer and plastics, that caused six children to die and 300,000 to become ill in 2008. Authorities seized 72 tons of the tainted milk powder but said that they were still serching for 100 tons.

The tainted milk powder was supposed to have been destroyed after the scandal in 2008, but was received by the Ningxia Tiantian dairy and repackaged and shipped on to other factories for sale in Guangdon and Fujian provinces, as well as Inner Mongolia.

Melamine is added to milk powder because it returns higher protein content results when the milk is tested.

Links to other sites: BBC, China Daily, Reuters

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