China Food Scare: Tainted Milk & More
While US mulls over its financial crisis, China is struggling to salvage their reputation as the their recent food scandal shocks the international community.
As you may have know by now, powdered milk were found laced with melamine, a type of industrial compound which is particularly harmful to infants and small children. Till now, four infants have died among some 53,000 ill.
This is not the first time that products from China were found to be unsafe. However, this time, the situation is particularly serious due to widespread contamination and health threat. This is because milk powder is a primary ingredient for many products. As such, many by-products made partly from milk-related ingredients sourced from China have been contaminated in the process. In addition, powdered milk has grown to become a necessity for non-breastfeeding mothers.
With so many products using milk ingredients from China due to cost benefits, it has become a challenging task for one to avoid ingesting any contaminated food. We may have been consuming them all along before all these scandals were uncovered. Imagine the accumulated quantity of harmful substance we would have consumed if this wasn’t exposed!
While there is no known serious health complications for adults, it is the innocent infants and young children who have bore the blunt of this episode of food scandal.
Without a doubt, it is clear that there is a serious oversight in their food regulatory system, and of other nations too. It is always expedient to point fingers at the government for failing to protect the safety of the public and forget about the culprits behind the entire scandal.
Do the Chinese entrepreneurs lack business ethics and social responsibility? Or was it an “honest mistake”?
Feel free to share your views.
