万花筒 2008-09-21&09-22 毒奶粉事件持续延烧

For the fifth straight day, angry parents lined up outside the headquarters of dairy company Sanlu to demand compensation after the government discovered it was using a poisonous industrial chemical in its baby formula.

 

"They need to resolve the problems, "said this mother whose child became sick after drinking Sanlu’s formula.

 

Four infants have died of kidney failure from drinking the tainted¹ milk and China’s Health Ministry² says more than 6,200 other babies have been taken ill. Many diagnosed with acute kidney failure.

 

The news sent thousands of parents across the country to hospitals demanding to have their children examined, putting further pressure on the government to act.

 

"As a parent, I don’t know what to do." said this mother waiting outside a hospital in Beijing. "I am very worried".

 

The government says, 22 brands of formula containing melamine normally used in plastics, but put in food products to falsely boost protein content have been taken off store shelves. But the crisis is no longer restricted to mainland China.

 

Officials in Hong Kong and Singapore are recalling contaminated dairy products such as milk, yogurt and ice cream made by another one of the brands implicated³ in the scandal.

 

Today, Chinese Authorities said they’ve arrested 12 people and dismissed several governmental officials for failing to deal with initial reports of tainted baby formula.

 

Adrienne Mong, NBC news, Beijing.

 

1 tainted   

adj.腐坏的；污染的；沾污的；感染的v.使变质( taint的过去式和过去分词 )；使污染；败坏；被污染，腐坏，败坏

参考例句：

• The administration was tainted with scandal. 丑闻使得政府声名狼藉。
• He was considered tainted by association with the corrupt regime. 他因与腐败政府有牵连而名誉受损。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 implicated   

adj.密切关联的；牵涉其中的

参考例句：

• These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence. 这些组织与这起暴力事件有着极大的关联。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Having the stolen goods in his possession implicated him in the robbery. 因藏有赃物使他涉有偷盗的嫌疑。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》