date:Jun 16, 2012
This is the latest safety scare to hit the country, which has been affected by a series of food scandals following the tainted milk scandal in 2008, in which 22 dairy companies were implicated for using melamine in milk and infant formula.
The recall was initiated after General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine detected high levels of mercury in several batches of Yili baby formula.
While the quality watchdog screened samples from 715 infant formula products from a