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Sanlu and Fonterra

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Sanlu and Fonterra
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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Anyone else fascinated by this?

http://www.farminguk.com/news/New-Zealand-Potential-fall-out-from-China-milk-scandal.9743.asp
Giant New Zealand dairy company Fonterra, are looking very embarrassed over the plea of guilty by the CEO on Sunlu Foods in China, to have been knowingly selling contaminated milk for 4 months causing the death of six babies.[/quote]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6ec66474-db91-11dd-be53-000077b07658.html

[quote]Tian Wenhua, the Sanlu executive on trial in China for the tainted milk scandal, admitted knowing of complaints about the milk. What is particularly interesting is that she notified the local Shijiazhuang city officials but not central authorities.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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Parents of kids in China milk scandal released
Five parents whose children were sickened by tainted milk have been released by Chinese police after being detained for a day in an apparent move to prevent them from meeting with journalists, a lawyer said Saturday.


Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7843972.stm


Two men have been given the death penalty for their involvement in China's contaminated milk scandal.

The former boss of the Sanlu dairy at the centre of the scandal was given life imprisonment.


Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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"Allegedly the reason the Kiwis on the Fonterra/Sanlu board did not blew the whistle about the melamine was that they did not understand what it was, they thought it was a Chinese legitimate nutritional food additive, and it was first when they at a party at the New Zealand embassy cracked jokes that the Chinese milk was so substandard to New Zealand milk, that nutrition had to be boosted with an additive called melamine, that someone twigged to what was going on. (the embassy hosted a social gathering � an unnamed Fonterra staffer told an embassy official there had been reports �and that they had found melamine in the milk, says David Taylor, director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (MFAT) Asia division.   NZ Listener October 4-10 2008)"

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Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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Yeh lets put the Canadian and the others on trial. And bring back Cushing and the others involved in not doing due dillegence on Ansett too.

munters. they'd be a lot more careful if they geninely thought they would actually be held accountable for their lack of oversight.


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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
how are they getting killed?
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BringbackBBW wrote:
how are they getting killed?


kid you need a wake up call from some one. like some one burning half your football shirts. would that be a sad day for you?

stop trying to impress people by being a sh*te


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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
no seriously
 
how does the chinese government kill its criminals
 
(I know they must keep their bodies intact because they sell their organs)
 
 
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martinb wrote:


munters. they'd be a lot more careful if they geninely thought they would actually be held accountable for their lack of oversight.


It's all the more puzzling when this is being bandied about "as this was the biggest open secret in the Chinese dairy industry"   


Jack, try using the internet to answer your question.
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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great Kim Hill interview with a kiwi living there, whose wife made sure she only used imported baby formula...


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John Key commented today

"It's not just the quarter of a billion of dollars they've lost � we need to put this in perspective; six infants died, 300,000 infants have been affected by this melamine (tainted) milk.

"Fonterra did not have control of the vertical production chain, in other words they were making the milk powder not the supply of the milk, so it was a difficult position and they did not know until quite late in the piece.

"Nevertheless they probably could front more for this sort of thing."

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Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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BringbackBBW wrote:
no seriously
 
how does the chinese government kill its criminals
 
(I know they must keep their bodies intact because they sell their organs)
 
 


China has two state-sanctioned methods of execution.  They are firing squad and lethal injection.
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loyalgunner wrote:
BringbackBBW wrote:
no seriously
 
how does the chinese government kill its criminals
 
(I know they must keep their bodies intact because they sell their organs)
 
 


China has two state-sanctioned methods of execution.  They are firing squad and lethal injection.


You get a choice of being shot up or shot down then?

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/fonterra-signals-job-cuts-ferrier-safe-39948


When chairman Henry van der Heyden was asked why Mr Ferrier remained in control of the company given such a disastrous 18 months, Mr van der Heyden defended his executive team and pointed to an independent review as vindication of the governance of the co-operative.

�He retains my full support and the support of the board,� he said.

He declined to discuss who performed the independent review.

Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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I don't want to be borrowing your style dude, but seeing as this has become the Fonterra/ corparate governance thread/ the how-to-guide to running your own one party state justice system

The dairy payout has been slashed by a billion dollars...

bad news as previously

Dairy products represented 21.8 per cent of New Zealand exports


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501241&objectid=10553328&pnum=2
martinb2009-01-29 14:38:35


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martinb wrote:
  the Fonterra/ corparate governance thread/ the how-to-guide to running your own one party state justice system


Phew! Summed up nicely!

FYI: What is melamime?
dairyflat2009-01-29 14:51:25
Profile pic. Should you be interested. Lakhsen, on the right, lost touch with him.
Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's living in Agadez, Niger.  Spending more time in town, Agadez, as bad people in the desert are spoiling the good life.
19/4/26.

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