Sanlu Group CO., Ltd. (SJZSGCZ) was a Chinese dairy products company based in Xinhua District, Shijiazhuang, the capital city of Hebei. [1] It produced one of the oldest and most popular brands of infant formula in China. [2] New Zealand's Fonterra owned 43% of Sanlu. [3] [4]

The scandal involved Sanlu Group's milk and infant formula along with other food materials and components being adulterated with the chemical melamine, which resulted in kidney stones and other kidney damage in infants.

2008年10月9日 · Government testing soon discovered that the problem was not limited to Sanlu, which is headquartered in Shijiazhuang, the capital of China's Hebei province near Beijing. The products of 20 dairy...

The former boss of Sanlu, Tian Wenhua, was sentenced to life imprisonment along with three others, while two men, Zhang Yujun and Geng Jinping, were sentenced to death. Wenhua was also ordered to pay a fine of 20 million yuan ($2.9 million).

2009年1月22日 · Sanlu was the company at the heart of the scandal. Tian is the highest-ranking official charged in the probe into milk contaminated by melamine, a chemical used in the manufacturing of plastics...

When Sanlu became the key culprit in the milk crisis after its infant formula was revealed to contain as much as four times more melamine than other tainted brands, the company apologized to the public. Sanlu also explained that its unscrupulous raw-milk dealers had illegally added melamine to milk.

2014年7月16日 · The Sanlu Group, one of the largest dairy producers in China, was identified as the chief culprit. But as the scandal unfolded, more Chinese dairy firms became implicated.

12 Sept 2008: Sanlu Group admits that its milk powder was contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine. 13 Sept: Production halts at Sanlu Group. Nineteen people are arrested. 15 Sept: Beijing...

2008年9月18日 · Sanlu company has issued a televised apology. But it and local officials are accused of a cover-up, since they knew about the problem for at least six weeks before issuing a recall. And the...

In 2008, a widespread food safety breach tragedy occurred in China. This was known as Sanlu's melamine-tainted Milk Crisis in China. The scandal was involving milk and infant formula as well as other food products that were contaminated with toxic melamine.