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Melamine in Tainted Chinese Food Traced to Hebei Veterinary Medicine Corporation, Still Being Sold
By chinafreepress.org translation
Nov 20, 2008 - 4:12:01 PM

Melamine in Tainted Chinese Food Traced to Hebei Veterinary Medicine Corporation, Still Being Sold

Beijing rights activist Zhou Li reports that melamine is still being sold in Hebei Province. In addition, animal feed and veterinary medicine expert Wang Haizhen says that chemicals are still being added to Shijiazhuang's animal feed, the most dangerous being rhodium iodide. This chemical speeds up the birth process in animals, but when processed into food is a dangerous carcinogen, much more dangerous than melamine.

Hebei Province is China's largest producer of animal feed additives and veterinary medicine. Two of the largest producers are Shijiazhuang City's Feilong Veterinary Medicine Corporation and Dashan Veterinary Medicine Corporation. In January 2006 the Ministry of Agriculture shuttered Feilong Corporation for producing fake medicine and adding toxic substances to animal feed. But these products had already entered the market, and local Hebei province consumers, including infants, were the hardest hit.

The Hebei provincial government and Animal Husbandry Bureau, once they became aware of the full extent of the contamination, not only did not take measures to prevent further damage, trace the contaminated products, or increase oversight over the production facilities in order to ameliorate the problem, they retaliated against the whistleblower Wang Haizhen. Up until today this melamine is still being sold on Shijiazhuang's North Victory Avenue, the only difference being that it has gone from open to underground distribution.

The present melamine tainted milk powder and food product scandal was already well known locally two years ago with whistleblowers being arrested for telling the truth about the tragedy. Feilong Corporation's former sales manager Gao Songlin was arrested for reporting on the problem to the Ministry of Agriculture and his wife Wang Haizhen--a fellow graduate of Hebei Agriculture University Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine department--is presently in Beijing petitioning for redress of the injustice. According to Mrs. Wang, chemicals are still being added to Shijiazhuang's animal feed, the most dangerous being iodized rhodium protein, which speeds up the birth process in animals, but when processed into food is a dangerous carcinogen, much more dangerous than melamine. There are hundreds of these enterprises in Hebei, more than 1,000 including unlicensed ones.

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