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The former head of China's biggest milk maker was recently condemned to life in prison. However, thousands of plaintiffs who want justice are struggling to get their case examined in court.
A Chinese court has sentenced three people to death - one on a suspended sentence - for their part in Sanlu's tainted milk scandal that caused the death of six children. Sanlu's former chief executive Tian Whenhua was sentenced to life in jail.
The former head of the dairy group Sanlu, Tian Wenhua, stood trial over her firm's mass production of milk laced with melamine that killed six babies and and contaminated 294,000 more. Tian faces life imprisonment if convicted.
Sanlu, the company at the heart of the Chinese tainted milk scandal, has to pay around 209 million euros to its creditors according to Chinese media. Sanlu was already bankrupted by the scandal.
China's Sanlu Group, the company at the centre of an international crisis involving milk tainted with melamine, has filed for bankruptcy. The contaminated milk and milk products sickened almost 300,000 children and resulted in six deaths.
The number of children affected by milk tainted with industrial chemical melamine is close to 300,000 - up from the original figure of 53,000 in September. Six babies are known to have died from drinking toxic milk.
Officials have found trace amounts of the chemical melamine in a sample of baby formula sold in the United States but there is "absolutely no risk" to health, according to a Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman.
Beijing has set up working groups in nearly every single province and has embarked on a sweeping drive to set up a series of new food testing centres after tainted milk sickened 53,000 babies and killed four.
