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24 November 2009 - 08H30  

China executes two over tainted milk: state media
Grandmother Zheng Shuzhen holds a portrait of her deceased grand-daughter at the Complaints Department of the Ministry of Health in Beijing in early May. Two people have been executed in China for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media has said.
Grandmother Zheng Shuzhen holds a portrait of her deceased grand-daughter at the Complaints Department of the Ministry of Health in Beijing in early May. Two people have been executed in China for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media has said.

AFP - Two people were executed in China on Tuesday for their roles in a contaminated milk powder scandal that led to the deaths of at least six infants and sickened up to 300,000, state media said.

The men were executed after being sentenced to death earlier this year by a court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang for producing and selling toxic ingredients that ended up in infant milk powder, Xinhua news agency said.

It did not make clear where the men were executed.

The scandal came to light in September 2008, reviving long-standing fears over product safety in China and leading to recalls and bans around the world of Chinese-made products.

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