Sanlu Milk Crises

The powered milk became such a commodity that the local produce dairy farms couldn’t sell their milk. A memorable scene in the film was when the dairy farmers had to spill out all their surplus milk that was only a days worth to make room for new milk since it wasn’t being consumed. A dairy farm used to produce 3,000 quarts per day and after America subsidized the milk industry, dairy farms were producing only about 600 liters. Dairy farmers were run out of their businesses and it’s sad to say but some dairy farmers were forced to convert to butchering their cows in order to make profit (Black).

Introduction: Since 2001, compounded drugs have caused more than 1,000 illnesses, and 87 deaths in the United States (cite 1). All of these unfortunate incidents were caused by errors during the manufacturing of compounded drugs, and in most cases, because of contamination. On the 25th of September 2013, the Drug Quality and Security Act, also known as H.R. 3204, was introduced, and three days later, was passed by the House of Representatives. On the 18th of November, this Act cleared the Senate. On the 27th of September, 2013, President Barack Obama signed the Drug Quality and Security Act into law (cite 2).

The government has put a limit on the amount of milk powder that can be purchased by Chinese who travel to Hong Kong. The People’s Daily, the official publication of the Communist Party, said in a commentary that since 2008, foreign milk powder companies had increased their prices in China by around 30 percent (Edward, 2013). Foreign milk powder has 60 percent of the market share in China compared with 30 percent before 2008, the commentary said (Edward, 2013). Since August 2008 when the enactment of the antimonopoly law the Chinese government have really been going against foreign companies for antitrust

According to above laws, Mad-About-Milk organizers have a legitimate argument regarding the requirements for selling milk produced out-of-state to the state of California. Furthermore, requiring out-of-state producers who want to sell milk in California must meet the California fluid milk standards violate the interstate commerce act. It is the federal regulation of business to prevent any unfair business practices among its industry. California fluid milk standards create state trade barriers which interfere with commerce between states. Even though, California has the right to set their own standard, but they cannot ban federal standard milk from entering the state. Allowing out-of-state milk producers to sell their product in California

The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was passed by Congress – along with the Meat Inspection Act – on June 30, 1906, then took effect on January 7, 1907 (Lerner 670). This act prevented manufacturers from selling mislabeled products, contaminated food with unsafe ingredients, and fixes dirty conditions in the food industry that was brought to the attention by journalists and authors (Lerner 670; “Pure Food” 1081). This regulation strongly enforces how food and drug products “were packaged, labeled, sold…in the United States” (“Pure Food”

In San Bernadino in the late 1960s, almost 200 hundred children went missing in what became known as The Milk Carton Epidemic. Children weren’t allowed on the streets past sunset, but on the day of Jack Sturges birthday, him and his little brother Jim were having too much fun on their bicycles to notice the sun was slowly making its exit. When Jack raced ahead towards the Holland Transit Bridge, Jim quickly lost sight of him. From the shadow of the bridge came a sight so terrifying that Jim could only run away in fear. Black fur, horns, claws, and massive teeth chased him home that day and while he managed to survive, he never saw his older brother Jack again.

In this case the issue is whether or not the “Filled Milk Act” passed by Congress is in line with the commerce clause and the due process limits. It is the power of the legislative contested here. To put it in other way, can Congress to limit “Carolene Products CO’s” right to do commerce enshrined in article one of the constitution?

Kevin Kowalcyk, born in December 1998, was a very happy and healthy child. When Kevin turned two his family went vacation, which took them from New Jersey all the way up to Maine. A few weeks after they returned home, Kevin woke up very sick with blood in his bed. They had found he came in contact with E.coli His mom, Barbara Kowalcyk, wrote the story about what happened to her son on The Center of Food Born Illness’s website. She states, twelve days later, Kevin’s kidneys failed and he passed away. They soon realized the meat they ate at a restaurant was recalled, but the restaurant still continued to serve it. Kevin’s dad and sister also got Ecoli poisoning, but did not get affected anywhere close to the way Kevin did (Kowalcyk). You would think with three cases of Ecoli, the local and state health departments would have launched a thorough investigation, but they did not. Nothing was changed because a child died. The family did not even get an apology. Sadly, the industry was more protected than

I never heard about the contaminated spinach situation our text spoke about but I do remember the Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter contamination a few years back that affected over 600 people in 47 states. I don’t know if this situation was preventable or if it was an accident but as our text states this is the fundamental issue in determining if these acts of negligence are considered criminal was amazed to learn that the CDC estimates that 5,000 people die from contaminated food, and that 76 million people are sickened by it every year, this is an outstanding number considering all the preventative measures put into place, that is why I am leaning more on the side of unsupervised recklessness at these plants that put out contaminated

For case one it can be assumed that their business died down for a while after the incidence. They would have lost a lot of money during the time it took to clean up the farm and areas used and contaminated. The business had to build back the trust of the consumers and shops purchasing the products for

Also, although they should have hired external crisis management team pretty early, but still hiring them is a great move on the part of Nestle. They should co-work with the crisis team to develop a fool proof strategy to recover the brand image of Maggi in the minds of the Indian consumers so that as soon as the test results are out and ban on maggi circulation is completely removed, consumers should be as willing to buy maggi, as they were before the incident happened.

Which brings us to the quality of the milk, lots of commercial farms put steroids in there cows to produce more milk than a regular cow could produce, prolactin, steroids including estrogens, progesterone, corticoids, and androgens, these are just some of the steroids commercial farmers inject in there cows. Sometimes when a cow produces too much milk they could develop mastitis in cows, mastitis is an infection or inflammation in the udders which makes them produce chunky milk it can be potentially fatal in the mammary gland and very expensive for the dairy commercial/industrial farms says HDB dairy, if the udders of a dairy cow doesn 't work they often get shot and get butchered for meat just because the farm was pushing them to hard

Poisoning was found in dog food and toothpaste. Defective tires and toys with lead paint were found. The safeness of these products is at an ultimate low. They are unsafe on all kinds of standards whether it be from food to cars, to even children 's toys. Therefore,U.S. items are more secure than items made in China and U.S. items ought to be purchased over China made items. According to Christine Dantz, of the European Union, “...products 'made in China ' have also made the top of the European Union 's (EU) unsafe list... Defects include: Small parts that could break off and cause children under the age of 3 to choke, harmful chemicals and heavy metal dangers, and Electronics that short circuit and pose a fire danger” (European Union: 'Made in China ' Products are NOT safe page 1). Ms. Dantz explains how items 'made in China ' have likewise made the highest point of the European Union 's unsafe checklist. They come with deformities including small parts that could sever and cause kids less than 3 years old to choke, destructive chemicals and substantial metal risks, and Electronics that short out and represent a flame peril. This is all coming from products being produced in China. These products create risks on various different levels whether it be from children 's toys to metals to electronics. This goes to show how dangerous and unsafe ‘made in China’ products can be. Brett M. Decker explains, “In April 2011, the Food and Drug Administration issued 197 import

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Melamine can be used in any human or animal food preparation as an illegal additive such as milk powder contamination scandal occurred in China in 2008. Nevertheless, Melamine can be used in food packaging material and in feedstuffs for poultry and livestock at low levels, but this amount of melamine can extraction from compression moulds by acidic foods, such as lemon or orange juice or curdled milk, at high temperature. According to this account, the amount of melamine take oral uptake of melamine was estimated around 0.007 mg melamine/kg/day. (OECD 1998).