Rangoon – Burma's Health Ministry has began conducting a surprise check on Chinese-made milk powders in wholesale markets and are reportedly seizing them as China continues to struggle to overcome the milk scandal, that has caused kidney stone in Children after consuming contaminated milk powders.
Local sources said, local police forces, and market administration committee members in Rangoon had accompanied health officials in a surprise check and seized Chinese–made milk products in several markets including Mingalar market and Nyaungpinlay markets.
An official from the inspection team said they were forced to seize the Chinese milk products as traders and businessmen, who do not want to incur a lost, continued selling them despite an order to ban while the health ministry is testing them in laboratories.
At least four children below the age of 1 have reportedly died and more than 62,000 children suffered illness in China after consuming the milk powders, which contain the chemical melamine, that are used for plastic. Besides, another 5 children have reportedly died in self-administered regions because of the consumption of these contaminated milk products.
The health official told Mizzima that traders and businessmen should cooperate with the government and stop the sales of Chinese-made milks as the people are largely ignorant about the consequences of consuming the milk powders. But despite of the government's effort to test and inspect the contaminated milk powder, businessmen continues selling the milk in the markets.
According to a market expert on Sino-Burmese border trade, the government should immediately trace and track the contaminated milk products based on the information provided by China and seize them.
The Chinese government has confirmed the contamination in milk and milk products produced by Yili Industrial Group Co., and Sanlu Group Co. and Mengniu Dairy Group Co.
Though the negligible consumption of chemical cannot cause much danger to the health, industrial chemical melamine can cause kidney stone and kidney failure, especially among the young children, the health officials said.
