No one; he resigned. Maybe he was forced out, regardless, he's not doing
that job anymore.
From the Los Angeles TimesChina official in milk crisis resignsLi Changjiang's watchdog agency has been under fire since news of tainted formula surfaced.
By Don Lee and Mark Magnier
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
September 23, 2008
SHANGHAI — China's product-quality chief resigned Monday as the government sought to contain a national crisis over tainted baby formula that has sickened 53,000 children and implicated the biggest dairy producers in the country.
The official New China News Agency said without explanation that Li Changjiang had stepped down as director of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.
Li and his agency have been under heavy fire since reports surfaced two weeks ago that milk powder made by the Sanlu Group was contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine.
Since then, tests by the watchdog agency showed that formula from 22 dairy producers was tainted with the substance, which was also found in pet foods that killed dogs and cats last year in the U.S.
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Los Angeles TimesAnd, just for fun, an oldie, but a goodie:
The Bottle Baby Scandal in the Third WorldSYNOPSIS: With the birthrate in the United States declining, infant formula manufacturers (Nestle and Bristol-Myers in the forefront along with Abbott and American Home Products) began pushing their products on the Third World to ensure their continued profits.
They rely on exploitative and deceptive tactics to sell their products including:
1) giving free samples to mothers so their own milk will dry up, leaving them dependent on expensive formulas;
2) promises of "modernization and heightened status" through use of the formulas, as encouraged by well-financed media campaigns (which include radio and television spots, calendars, billboards, and baby contests),
3) telling new mothers that their own milk is "inappropriate" or may be "unsuccessfully" given to their baby, etc.
The majority of Third World mothers wind up watering down the formulas, using contaminated water, and otherwise malnourishing and infecting their children because they cannot afford to administer formulas in the prescribed way. Parents would have to spend 30-40 percent of their aver age daily wage to feed their babies on this mother's milk substitute. Malnutrition and denial of natural immunities (which would have been provided had the mother breast-fed) caused by infant formula feeding account for 35,000 deaths and untold brain damage in babies of predominantly Third World countries.
Meanwhile, the profit margins on infant formulas have been documented at up to 72 percent; a billion dollars a year are taken from the Third World countries from the import of these formulas.
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UPDATE: As a result of public outrage in the late seventies and through a series of events involving the courts, the U.S. Senate, a group of Catholic nuns, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and concerned citizens, the WHO/UNICEF Code for Marketing Breastmilk Substitutes was drafted, redrafted, and finally adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1981. The - final vote was 118 to 1. The United States cast the sole negative vote.
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Third World Traveler More on Nestlé's profit at any cost, please go to
http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/">Boycott Nestlé, a blog with the latest on exploiting infants in poor countries.
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