[Mon , Sep 15, 2008 09:52:53 am]

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra said Monday that contaminated milk powder from its Chinese joint venture company Sanlu Group, which has killed two infants, was the result of sabotage.

The company also said it knew of the contamination in early August and wanted an immediate recall but Sanlu had to abide by Chinese rules.

Fonterra chief executive Andrew Ferrier, speaking to New Zealand reporters by videolink from Singapore, said an unknown third party had put the banned chemical melamine into raw milk supplied to Sanlu.

Fonterra blames 'criminal contamination'

Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Fonterra has been struggling "to do the right thing all along" in the growing Chinese milk scandal, chief executive Andrew Ferrier has just told a press conference.

And he has claimed that the adding of the chemical melamine to milk is the result of "criminal contamination".

Up to three children are dead and more than 6200 have been diagnosed with kidney stones or illness after drinking milk powder that contained melamine - a chemical banned from food. A second scare has since emerged with the recall of a milk product intended for pregnant women.

Sanlu, the company first linked to the powder, is 43 per cent owned by Fonterra.

"The [infant] milk had been poisoned," he said, adding no dairy company in the world had been testing for melamine until now.

Berikut ini link dari audio file Fonterra, bisa dilihat juga di www.fonterra.com:

Media conference audio - Andrew Ferrier on China milk contamination issue

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