Baby formula pulled off shelves after mercury tests_美文

Baby formula pulled off shelves after mercury tests

Wu Guangchi, a child nutrition professor at the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, said it is rare to see mercury poisoning from food.

"Mercury poisoning is always coming from environmental pollution, for instance, near industrial and mining regions. Such poisoning can also be triggered by substandard cosmetics," he said.

According to Wu, mercury poisoning can damage the brain, kidney and liver.

For adults, intake of 0.3 grams of mercury will cause death, while 0.1 grams can kill a child, he said.

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in an urgent notice on Thursday that it launched a test on 715 samples from all infant milk powder brands on the Chinese market, and no sample shows abnormal mercury content except the one from Yili.

Questions:

1. Which Chinese company is the latest to recall milk products?

2. What was the product?

3. What was the problem?

Answers:

1. Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group.

2. Formula milk powder for infants.

3. Batches were found to contain excessive mercury.

About the broadcaster:

Nelly Min is an editor at China Daily with more than 10 years of experience as a newspaper editor and photographer. She has worked at major newspapers in the U.S., including the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit Free Press. She is also fluent in Korean.