Beijing, Nov. 20: China

Unhygienic food available at 1,584 private institutions were destroyed by the Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry Public Health Unit following a two day countrywide raid last week to nab factories shops and hotels offering unhygienic food.
The Unit also filed cases against 314 shops and hotels selling food not suitable for consumption, Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry sources said.

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Beijing: Nearly a quarter of around 3,00,000 babies in the Chinese Capital were once fed melamine contaminated milk, before the product was taken off the shelves, media reports here claimed on Sunday.

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Three more children in the southern Chinese gambling enclave of Macau have developed kidney stones after drinking milk that may have been be tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, bringing the total number of sick children to seven, the government said.

Beijing, Oct. 18: Under fire over handling the tainted milk scandal, Chinese J'abao Premier Wen Jiabao said his government is responsible for the scam that killed four infants and sickened thousands in the country.

While assuring tough legislation and monitoring, the Chinese Premier said his government is to blame concerning industry regulation.

more than 50,000 infants developed kidney stones and four others died in China (as of September 23) after consuming baby food tainted with melamine, a chemical banned in food items. Reports of contamination emerged on September 10, when 14 babies in Gansu province fell ill. Soon, more reports started coming from other provinces. Five cases were reported in Hong Kong as well. According to the