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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / June 2006Milk Poisons 3,000 Pupils in Northeast China's Liaoning
http://english.people.com.cn/200304/09/eng20030409_114834.shtml Milk Poisons 3,000 Pupils in Northeast China's Liaoning Milk Poisons 3,000 Pupils in Northeast China's Liaoning -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More than 3,000 primary school pupils in Northeast China's Liaoning Province continued to suffer the effects of poisoning Tuesday due to their drinking soya milk produced by a Sino-United States joint venture. The local media said three students have died but the provincial government did not confirm that figure. Some doctors and parents suspected that deliberate poisoning had been involved. More than 200 parents have taken their children to Beijing for better medical treatment. The students affected come from eight primary schools in the city of Haicheng. They experienced stomach aches, headaches, dizziness and twitching. The edges of many children's eyes, noses and mouths went black and blue. The suspected soya milk, recommended by the local educational authorities on March 19, was produced by the Anshan-based Baorun Milk Co, a Sino-United States joint venture based in the city of Anshan in Liaoning Province. Sources with the Anshan government, which also covers Haicheng, said the cause of the food poisoning was still being investigated. Parents reportedly heard the pupils had been infected with corpus luteum mould but local authorities have not verified this. One parent surnamed Gao said Beijing-based doctors had diagnosed some of the children as having abnormal readings for white blood cells and lymph. Sources with the Beijing Children's Hospital, one of those in the Chinese capital to have treated some of the victims, said the incident was obviously a case of food poisoning but said it was difficult to tell the origin. One doctor, who refused to be named, said: "I am afraid someone has intentionally put poison into the milk as the urinary albumin and phosphorus indices are strangely higher than normal figures." The parent surnamed Gao said the local health department has so far refused to reveal the result of the examination it carried out. Another parent, surnamed Yang, said they have to come to Beijing as few hospitals in Liaoning have recognized the symptoms to cure the children. Yang said the milk has caused several children to go blind. The Haicheng City Educational Commission, which had recommended that the children drink the soya milk, said the incident was still being investigated and no conclusion had been reached yet. A representative of the Anshan Baorun Milk Co surnamed Han said she suspected that a competitor was to blame as the soya milk from the same batch delivered to other schools had not had any negative effects. "The health and epidemic-prevention authorities have proven that our products are up to the national standard," she said. Han said her company has not been planning to pay out any compensation. Sources with the Beijing-based Union Hospital said the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau has become involved in the case but declined to describe it as a criminal case. ********** TC > http://english.people.com.cn/200304/09/eng20030409_114834.shtml > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > TC http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200304/19/eng20030419_115426.shtml Liaoning Publishes Investigation Result of Milk Poisoning Case The government of Anshan city and health department of Liaoning Province published on April 16 the investigation result at the second news briefing of the milk poisoning case in Haicheng city. The government of Anshan city and health department of Liaoning Province published on April 16 the investigation result at the second news briefing of the milk poisoning case in Haicheng city. On March 19, about 4,900 students from eight elementary schools in Haicheng drank a certain kind of soy milk and 2,556 of them became sick afterward. From April 9 to 15, the Ministry of Health and Liaoning health department jointly formed an investigation team, consisting of experts on food security, epidemic diseases, food processing, microbiology and clinical medicine, and conducted investigation into the case caused by soy milk produced by Baorun Milk Co, a Sino-United States joint venture based in the city of Anshan in Liaoning Province. The experts determined that some kind of trypsin inhibitor in the soy milk was the cause of the accident, and people allergic to the agent would suffer digestive tract problems after consuming the soy milk. They also ruled out the possibility of bacterial, chemical and animal poisons. Experts also held that people usually recover well from the sickness and there will be no long-term, potential harm to the body. Anshan mayor Zhang Jiehui briefed the investigation work of both Anshan and Haicheng authorities, making two promises to the society. First, Anshan government will be responsible for the health and life security of the 2556 pupils to the end, and make all efforts to ensure that all students recover from the illness. Second, the government will handle the case and people involved according to law and the principles of "being just, transparent and no cover-up for anybody". Anshan government also made known that the death of Li Yang, a 12-year-old girl who died half a month after drinking the soy milk at school, was caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, and not the milk. Up to the evening of April 15, 84 pupils had been under treatment in three local hospitals. ******* TC "The experts determined that some kind of trypsin inhibitor in the soy milk was the cause of the accident, and people allergic to the agent would suffer digestive tract problems after consuming the soy milk." Yes, and we should be thinking about what in this incident? Even more likely would be the more severe gi problems from using cow's milk, as most chinese are lactose intolerant. > "The experts determined that some kind of trypsin inhibitor in the soy > milk was the cause of the accident, and people allergic to the agent would [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > likely would be the more severe gi problems from using cow's milk, as most > chinese are lactose intolerant. I've never heard of any gi problems from cow's milk except for that small minority with lactose intolerance, and that means some gi discomfort..... NOT POISONING AND DEATH. TC "I've never heard of any gi problems from cow's milk except for that small minority with lactose intolerance, and that means some gi discomfort..... NOT POISONING AND DEATH." It was a substance in that specific batch of soy milk, not soy milk, that was the problem, having one presumes consumed the milk routinely in past. "minority" doesn't describe the fact in china where a majority of a billion plus population have the problem. The substance was not confirmed to have caused deaths, 3 were first reported, and some of those drinking that batch to which they were allergic had gi problems which if severe enough can cause death. out...@citynet.net wrote: > "I've never heard of any gi problems from cow's milk except for that small > minority with lactose intolerance, and that means some gi discomfort..... [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > to which they were allergic had gi problems which if severe enough can > cause death. "The experts determined that some kind of trypsin inhibitor in the soy milk was the cause of the accident..." I don't care how you choose to spin it, but there is a naturally occurring substance in the soy that caused over 3000 *CHILDREN* to get sick, one confirmed death and three reported deaths. It is a clear sign of just how far you will go to try to justify the consumption of soy that you would ignore such a blatant example of the dangerous aspects of the soybean as a food. TC ""The experts determined that some kind milk was the cause of the accident..."" Yes, i posted that first. The trypsin is inhibition is usually greatly lowered or removed by processing of soy by cooking or fermentation. Note the word "accident", for some reason in this batch it was not and those children, and those only, alergic to it had gastric reactions among all the children at the school where it happened. Some people can eat simple boiled soy beans without any such reaction and the levels of the substance remains high. In usual digestion trypsin helps digest proteins and the gastric upset the children had was likely due to that incomplete digestion and/or combined with a simple allergy reaction. Soy milk is used by millions of children each day without this effect so the real question becomes why this specific batch had higher abnormal levels of the substance. > ""The experts determined that some kind > milk was the cause of the accident..."" [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > becomes why this specific batch had higher abnormal levels of the > substance. That is indeed the question. And the next question is how much of this substance is in our soy products, and what deleterious effects will it have on our children in the short and long term. Is there any guarantee that our children aren't being harmed by this substance in soy. Is soy 100% safe for our children? What kind of moron would willingly and knowingly feed this poison in any quantity to their children? Lots of interesting questions about the safety of soy as a food for humans. TC > http://english.people.com.cn/200304/09/eng20030409_114834.shtml > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > TC http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2003/0417/bz10-5.html Soybean milk banned after 2,500 pupils poisoned Shanghai Star. 2003-04-17 THE Education Department of Northeast China's Liaoning Province has ordered an immediate halt to soybean milk consumption in all primary and middle schools in the province. The soybean milk ban followed a series of poisoning incidents last month. More than 2,500 pupils became ill after drinking soybean milk on the same day. Three later died, according to the Beijing based Jinghua Shibao. A natural ingredient in the drink was said to have been the cause of the trouble. On the afternoon of March 19, Yang Xiaoyu (not her real name), a grade-three pupil of a Tiexi Primary School in Haicheng city in Liaoning felt very uncomfortable after school. Her father Yang brought her to nearby Guangji Hospital immediately. What surprised him was that hundreds of parents were already waiting at the gate of the emergency treatment ward. All the children were suffering from sickness, vomiting and twitching. All came from local schools. That morning, children drank a brand of soybean milk recommended by the local educational commission. It was the first time they had consumed soybean milk produced by Anshan Baorun Dairy Co Ltd. After drinking, many children complained of stomach aches and the condition of some became serious. Early on the morning of April 1, Li Yang, a girl from the Tiexi Primary School died. The result of the examination of another dead child concluded she also had died from poisoning. After the news began to spread, about 100 parents took their children to doctors in Beijing, worried that the local hospital in Haicheng would be unable to cure their children. The three cases of death obviously shocked and worried the parents of affected children. But the local hospital held back from giving a specific answer to questions about the case. The city government of Haicheng held a meeting with parents on April 4. Officials reiterated at the meeting that encouraging children to take the soybean milk was decided by higher level officials because such milk benefits health. On April 16, the reason for the poisoning was found, according to Xinhua News Agency. A natural gene in the soybean milk was identified as the culprit, said a group of experts from the Ministry of Health and from Liaoning Province. They said treatment was not necessary unless the symptoms were serious. After treatment, people affected would quickly recover without after-effects. ******** TC > http://english.people.com.cn/200304/09/eng20030409_114834.shtml > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > TC http://www.iiasiisa.be/schools/aeconf/miami/aepapers/VMA.pdf very interesting reading. TC > http://english.people.com.cn/200304/09/eng20030409_114834.shtml > [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > TC http://www.chinagateway.com.cn/english/3770.htm Initial Result of Pupil's Death Causes Disputes A Sino-US joint venture milk company was not responsible for the death of a girl who was among several thousand school children taken ill after drinking its product, said a disputed initial report. According to the Anshan city government in Liaoning Province, the death of 12-year-old Li Yang, who died about two weeks after drinking the soya milk at school in Haicheng of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, was caused by carbon monoxide. Li is the only person confirmed dead after about 4,900 students from eight elementary schools in Haicheng drank the milk on March 19. Many of them became sick afterwards. Some parents claimed that at least three students had died due to the soya milk but the claim could not be confirmed yet. The outcome of the initial investigation was released at the weekend. "We definitely do not accept the result," Li's father said. "We were in the same room as our daughter that night. If she died due to absorbing carbon monoxide, then how come there was nothing wrong with us?" Despite the Anshan government saying Li's death was not related to the soya milk, it said the Anshan Baorun Milk Company's product did cause illness among more than 2,500 primary school students. The milk was selected by Haicheng's Tiexi District Educational Commission for consumption by students. City government sources said the cause of the students' various illnesses is not yet known. Experts sent by the Ministry of Health are in Haicheng looking into the matter. Four scientists from the ministry and the Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control arrived in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning, last week and began collecting data in Shenyang, Anshan and Haicheng, particularly samples from the milk factory. All of the experts will carry out independent investigations, a Ministry of Health official said. The Haicheng government has promised to pay all of the students' medical fees before the final result is released. It is the second soya milk poisoning case in Liaoning Province in six months. In September, students from 17 schools in Lingyuan got sick after drinking milk from a factory in Chaoyang. (China Daily April 14, 2003) *** TC |
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